AFP: Powerful Iranian cleric and opposition supporter Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has decided not to lead Friday prayers this week to avoid "political abuse" of the event, an official said on Monday.

Los Angeles Times: Iran's president has conducted a purge of the nation's Intelligence Ministry, sweeping aside ranking officials with decades of experience in favor of loyalists, said a lawmaker, several news websites and a former intelligence chief's son.

AFP: US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice on Sunday condemned what she described as "show trials" for demonstrators in Iran who protested the results of June's disputed presidential election.

AFP: Iran has officially confirmed that it has arrested three Americans who hiked into its territory from Iraq, White House national security adviser Jim Jones said Sunday.

AFP: A top official with Iran's Revolutionary Guards called on Sunday for the main opposition leaders to be put on trial for trying to orchestrate a "velvet coup" after the disputed presidential election.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 09 – Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday vowed to “slam the heads” of those nations which he perceives as having “interfered” in Iran’s post-election unrest “into the ceiling”.

AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that he will submit his new cabinet line-up to parliament for its approval toward the middle of August, the ISNA news agency reported.

AFP: Foreign Secretary David Miliband said the trial in Tehran Saturday of an Iranian employee of the British embassy was the "latest Iranian provocation" since the disputed presidential election.

Reuters: A Frenchwoman on trial in Iran has been charged with acting against the country's national security for being involved in unrest after the June presidential vote, the state news agency IRNA reported on Saturday.