Reuters: U.S. President Barack Obama signed a law last week imposing tough new sanctions on Iran’s banking and energy sectors, hoping to curb Teheran’s nuclear enrichment activities.
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Protests in university campuses in Iran on uprising anniversary
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jul. 09 – From the Grapevine… Several hundred students staged a protest outside the main gate of Jondi Shapour University in Ahvaz, in the oil-rich south-western province of Khuzistan. They chanted “death to the dictator” and “death to Khamenei” (Iran’s Supreme Leader) and clashed with security and intelligence agents. Several students were injured.
Iran lawyer has no confirmation of woman’s stoning stay
AFP: The Iranian judiciary has yet to confirm any stay of implementation of a sentence of stoning handed down against a woman convicted of adultery, her lawyer told AFP on Friday.
Smugglers in Iraq blunt sanctions against Iran
New York Times: Even as the United States imposes new sanctions on Iran, one of the biggest gaps in the American strategy is on full display here in Iraq, where hundreds of millions of dollars in crude oil and refined products are smuggled over the scenic mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan every year.
Iran: Merchants on strike for 3rd day
New York Times: Widespread strikes continued for a third day on Thursday at Tehran’s central bazaar, according to Iranian news sites, as merchants protested a proposed tax increase on their earnings.
Heavy police presence outside Tehran University
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jul. 09 – Around 150 security agents were stationed in Daneshjoo Park outside Tehran University, filming vehicles and passersby, on Friday which marks the anniversary of the 9 July 1999 student-led uprising in Iran.
Residents chant “death” to Iran’s Supreme Leader
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jul. 09 – On the third day of a major strike by Tehran’s Bazaar merchants, residents of the capital’s Arya Shahr, Sadeqiya, Gheish and Azadi districts and Imam Hossein Square late on Thursday chanted “Allah-o Akbar” (or God is the greatest) and “death to Khamenei” (Iran’s Supreme Leader) from their rooftops.
US appalled by ‘barbaric’ stoning plan in Iran
AFP: The United States on Thursday urged Iran not to stone to death a woman convicted of adultery, calling the punishment “barbaric.”
Ahmadinejad says sanctions will not alter nuclear drive
AFP: Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that new sanctions slapped on his country would not alter Tehran’s nuclear drive, remaining defiant in the face of growing Western pressure.
Britain condemns planned stoning in Iran as ‘medieval’
AFP: British Foreign Secretary William Hague spoke out Thursday against the “medieval” planned stoning to death for adultery of a woman in Iran, saying it would “disgust and appal” the rest of the world.
