Reuters: Western nations are hoping the U.N. Security Council will be able to vote on Wednesday on a resolution imposing a fourth round of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, diplomats said.
Iran sanctions vote could come Wednesday: U.N. envoys
Preview: Iran opposition to hold major gathering outside Paris
Iran Focus: Paris, Jun. 07 – The Iranian opposition plans to hold a major rally near Paris in the last week of June, organisers tell Iran Focus.
At the mausoleum …
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 07 – From the Grapevine… Authorities undertook extra-ordinary measures to prevent any anti-government activity at the scene of Khomeini’s death anniversary in Tehran on Friday.
US doubts Iran has ‘benign’ intentions for Gaza
AFP: The United States on Monday questioned the Iranian Red Crescent’s decision to send aid ships to Gaza, saying Tehran’s intentions toward the Palestinian territory were not “benign.”
Opposition Iranian film-maker resurfaces in Germany
AFP: An Iranian film-maker and outspoken critic of his country’s regime who was missing in Germany for 12 days has resurfaced, prosecutors said on Monday.
Iran’s Ahmadinejad to visit China
AFP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is heading to China this week to discuss the threat of new UN sanctions over Iran’s nuclear programme, as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said world powers have the necessary votes at the Security Council.
Iraq protests to Tehran over Iranian incursion
AP: A senior Iraqi official says the government has complained to Tehran over what authorities say is an incursion by Iranian troops into Iraq’s northern Kurdish region.
Bomb concern makes Iran “special case”: IAEA head
Reuters: Iran is a “special case” because of concerns it may be working to develop an atom bomb, the U.N. nuclear watchdog chief said on Monday amid an Arab push to focus his agency’s attention on Israel’s presumed nuclear arsenal.
Clinton warns of likely Iranian ‘stunt’ ahead of UN sanctions vote
AFP: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday she expects Iran will “pull some stunt in the next couple of days” as a UN vote on tough sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear program looms.
Iran Red Crescent to send two aid ships to Gaza
AFP: The Iranian Red Crescent has decided to send two aid ships to Gaza this week and has called for volunteers to act as relief workers and accompany the vessels, the state IRNA news agency reported.
