Reuters: The European Union said on Friday Iran had to choose between EU assistance for peaceful development of nuclear power or tougher sanctions if it failed to abandon its suspected atomic weapons programme.
Iran must choose sanctions or cooperation – EU
Irans vice speaker hails Khamenei’s directive on Iran Cabinet
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 05 – The deputy speaker of Iran’s Majlis (Parliament) congratulated Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for his “compelling” supervision on guaranteeing that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s cabinet choices were approved, state-run television reported on Friday.
Irans vice speaker hails Khamenei’s directive on Iran Cabinet
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 05 – The deputy speaker of Iran’s Majlis (Parliament) congratulated Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for his “compelling” supervision on guaranteeing that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s cabinet choices were approved, state-run television reported on Friday.
Khamenei ‘urged’ Iran MPs to approve cabinet
AFP: A top official said on Friday supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged MPs to approve President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's cabinet, the latest sign of open backing for the hardliner from Iran's powerful spiritual guide.
Ahmadinejad wins approval of key cabinet slots
New York Times: Iran’s Parliament approved all but three of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s 21 nominees for his cabinet on Thursday, handing a victory to the beleaguered president, who now has close allies overseeing the crucial oil, interior and intelligence ministries.
Top Tehran TV journalist wanted by FBI for 1980 murder in the US
The Times: An American fugitive, accused of murdering an aide to the late Shah of Iran in the United States, was made an editor of Iran’s English-language television network in Tehran.
Iran’s list of approved Cabinet ministers
AP: The members of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's new government and their portfolios, after a vote in Iran's parliament Thursday on his nominees:
Iran assembly approves most of hard-line Cabinet
AP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad received a broad mandate Thursday as parliament backed his main Cabinet choices — naming the first woman minister since the 1979 Islamic Revolution but showing international defiance by supporting a suspected mastermind in the bombing of an Argentine Jewish center that killed 85 people.
Defiant Ahmadinejad says Iran ready for more sanctions
AFP: A defiant President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday Iran is ready for more sanctions over its nuclear programme and will not bow to pressure in meeting any deadline set by world powers.
Iran would not discuss nuclear work with powers: TV
Reuters: A senior Iranian official was quoted by a state-run television website on Thursday as suggesting any talks with world powers would not address the Islamic Republic's nuclear program.
