AFP: Iranian-American reporter Roxana Saberi said Thursday fear drove her to confess to being a US spy as she gave her first interview since being freed after 100 days in Iran's notorious Evin prison.
Fear led US reporter to confess to Iran spying
Blast at mosque in Iran’s Zahedan kills 30: report
Reuters: An explosion at a prominent Shi'ite Muslim mosque in the southeast Iranian city of Zahedan on Thursday killed 30 people and wounded 60, the semi-official news agency ILNA reported.
Iran says it boosts uranium enrichment capability
AP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran has boosted its capacity to enrich uranium, another sign of anti-Western defiance by the leader seeking re-election in a vote next month.
Iran’s political system
Los Angeles Times – Q & A: The winner of Iran's June 12 presidential election will enjoy only limited power in the nation's complex system.
Argentina: Inquiry into bombing to reopen
New York Times: Argentina’s Supreme Court ordered the reopening of the investigation into a deadly 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, saying a man previously acquitted in the attack should be retried.
Moderates at risk in election
Washington Times: Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s visit to Beirut last week underscored the enormous stake America has in parliamentary elections that Lebanon will hold June 7.
Reporter Saberi thanks Clinton for pushing Iran
Reuters: Freed U.S.-Iranian reporter Roxana Saberi thanked U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in person on Wednesday for pressing Iran to release her from a Tehran jail where she was held on charges of spying.
Miliband: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei must engage with West
The Times: Britain is looking to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to reach out to the West over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear programme, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said yesterday, playing down the effect of a likely election victory for the country's fiery President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Iran’s Ahmadinejad warns rivals against ‘insults’
AFP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday warned his rivals in June's election that their heavy criticism amounted to "insulting" the Iranian people, the state news agency IRNA reported.
Prisoner beaten in central Iran – reports
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 27 – Guards at a prison in Isfahan, central Iran, earlier this week beat and flogged a prisoner to the point that he had to be transferred to hospital, human rights groups say.
