Iran Focus: Dehdasht, Iran, Jul. 5 – Sadras Koushkizadeh, 24, married with a three-year-old daughter, died on Saturday in the south-western city of Dehdasht because of the seriousness of her burns.
Woman, 24, self-immolates out of poverty
Sanctions are biting in Iran, exiled group says
Reuters: Sanctions imposed on Iran over the past four years are having a direct impact on its nuclear programme and causing widespread bank liquidity problems, according to an exiled Iranian opposition group.
Ponytail for men gets the chop in Iran
AFP: Iran’s culture ministry has given its blessing to a number of “Islamic” haircuts for men, with ponytails failing to make the list, the ILNA news agency reported on Monday.
Students report unrest in Iran universities
Iran Focus: Isfahan, Jul. 5 – From the Grapevine… A student at the University of Isfahan: This year, the regime closed the University of Isfahan sooner than previous years in order to prevent the commemoration of the 9 July 1999 student-led uprising by students on campus.
Iran to stop subsidised petrol sales from September
AFP: Iran is to halt the sale of subsidised petrol from late September as part of plans to phase out subsidies on energy products, ISNA news agency reported on Monday.
Anti-government supporters active in Iran capital
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jul. 5 – From the Grapevine… Pro-democracy activists in Tehran have written new slogans in public places urging people to take part in 9 July protests commemorating the anniversary of the student-led uprising in 1999.
Iranian passenger jets ‘refused fuel’
BBC News: Iran says that Britain, Germany and the United Arab Emirates are refusing to provide fuel to Iranian passenger planes.
Iranians on hunger strike over Swiss refugee refusal
AFP: Three Iranian asylum seekers have been on a hunger strike in Switzerland for over a week in protest against Bern’s refusal so far to grant them refugee status, a spokesman said Monday.
Iran discovers two new gas fields: minister
AFP: Iran, OPEC’s second largest oil exporter, has discovered two new natural gas fields, Oil Minister Masoud Mirkazemi announced on Monday.
Biden, in Iraq, urges leaders to form government
New York Times: Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. drew an analogy to the signers of the Declaration of Independence on Sunday in exhorting Iraqi leaders to end the paralysis that has stalled the formation of a government since the parliamentary elections four months ago.
