AFP: Dozens of hopefuls, including four women and a truck driver, signed up on Tuesday to run in June 12 presidential election, seen as a test for Iran's dominant conservatives.
Dozens eye Iran presidency
Irans Ahmadinejad cancels Brazil trip indefinitely
Bloomberg: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad canceled a trip to Brazil this week without explanation amid criticism at home from the country’s clerical leader and U.S. concern about Iran’s growing influence in Latin America.
Iran shells Iraqi Kurdistan village
Reuters: Iran shelled a Kurdish village in a remote area of northern Iraq's largely autonomous Kurdistan region on Monday, causing damage to buildings but no casualties, the region's border police said.
Russian ship frees Iranians seized with pirates
AP: Iran's embassy in Moscow says a Russian warship has freed eight Iranians who were seized along with suspected Somali pirates last week.
Iran says U.S. sanctions will not halt nuclear work
Reuters: Iran will not suspend its disputed nuclear programme even if the United States imposes sanctions targeting companies that ship fuel to the Islamic Republic, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday.
Peres says Iran seeks to control Arabs with terror
Bloomberg: Israeli President Shimon Peres said Iran’s nuclear program is a threat to the entire Middle East and the “fanatic rulers of Iran are on the wrong side of history.”
Lieberman says nuclear Iran destabilises world
Reuters: Israel's Avigdor Lieberman began his first European tour as Israeli foreign minister on Monday by describing Iran's nuclear programme as "a destabilising factor for the entire world."
Journalist group: US reporter hospitalized in Iran
AP: Reporters Without Borders says the American journalist on a hunger strike for two weeks to protest her imprisonment in Iran was briefly hospitalized after she intensified her fast by refusing to drink water.
28 people killed in Iran bus crash
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 04 – At least 28 people were killed on Monday when a bus veered off a road and crashed into a building in western Iran.
28 people killed in Iran bus crash
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 04 – At least 28 people were killed on Monday when a bus veered off a road and crashed into a building in western Iran.
