Reuters: Iran's parliament approved on Thursday the president's choice of new defense minister, Iranian media reported, a man Argentina says was involved in the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center that killed 85 people.
Iran MPs approve minister wanted by Argentina: media
Iran opposition says 72 killed in vote protests
AFP: An aide to Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi said in a website report posted Thursday that 72 people died in post-election violence, upping an earlier toll of 69.
Belgian held in US plot to sell Iran fighter jet parts
AFP: US officials have arrested an alleged Belgian arms dealer and charged him with plotting to export illegally to Iran F-5 fighter jet engines and parts, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
Iranian hunger striker has heart attack outside US embassy
Evening Standard: A woman on hunger strike outside the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square for more than a month has suffered a heart attack.
World powers urge Iran to enter nuclear talks
AFP: Senior diplomats from six world powers urged Iran on Wednesday to accept their offer of direct talks on its nuclear programme, a senior German diplomat said after a meeting near Frankfurt.
Iran replacing envoys who backed “rioters”: report
Reuters: Iran is replacing 40 of its ambassadors, including some who voiced support for "rioters" during the unrest that erupted after June's disputed presidential election, a semi-official news agency reported.
Iran MPs to debate oil and interior ministries
AFP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's nominees for the key oil and interior portfolios were Wednesday to outline their four-year plans to Iranian MPs, as parliament prepared to vote on the new cabinet.
U.S. heard nothing conclusive from Iran on talks
Reuters: The United States has heard nothing conclusive from Iran about Tehran's reported new offer for negotiations on its nuclear program, the White House said on Tuesday.
ANALYSIS – Iran unlikely to back down over IAEA’s atom bomb probe
Reuters: The U.N. nuclear watchdog has raised the stakes in a Western standoff with Iran by lending credence to allegations it studied ways to make atom bombs, but Tehran looks unlikely to give ground.
Ahmadinejad plans U.N. visit
Washington Post: With weeks to go until a U.S. deadline for opening talks, a spokesman for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday that he plans to travel to New York to give a speech during the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 23.
