Sunday Times: Alex Salmond made a splash when he recently descended on the USA for Tartan Week. He schmoozed with congressmen and delivered pithy addresses to business and academic audiences, showing how Scotland had been a great improving force in the world and that possibly the best was yet to come.
TOM GALLAGHER: Salmond must shun Iran
Kurdish rebels in Iraq threaten to attack Iran
AFP: A Kurdish rebel group based in northern Iraq threatened on Sunday to launch bomb attacks inside Iran if Tehran fails to halt anti-Kurdish policies in the Islamic country.
Iran signals diplomatic initiative in nuclear row
Reuters: Iran, defying the West over its disputed nuclear program, said on Sunday it would soon unveil proposals aimed at resolving “international” and other problems.
Iran dismisses sabotage in mosque blast
AP: Iranian officials on Sunday ruled out an attack as the cause of an explosion that killed 11 people inside a mosque in the southern city of Shiraz.
Iran mosque blast kills 12, wounds over 200
AFP: Twelve people were killed and at least 202 wounded when an explosion ripped through a packed mosque in Iran’s southern city of Shiraz during prayers by a prominent cleric, officials said on Sunday.
First Persia Fund opens Iranian stock market to foreigners
Bloomberg: First Persia Equity Fund Ltd., the only fund in which foreign investors can buy Iranian stocks, has opened its second-phase of subscription as it aims to raise 250 million euros ($395 million).
Iran activists protest feminist’s arrest
AFP: Hundreds of Iranian civil rights activists have signed an open letter calling for the release of a women’s rights advocate arrested for “acting against national security”, reports said on Saturday.
Iran envoy set for talks with UN nuclear chief
AFP: The head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation is to travel to Vienna on Monday for talks with the head of the UN nuclear watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei, the official IRNA news agency said.
Iran denies confrontation at sea with U.S. Navy
CNN: Iran denied a report that several of its boats taunted a U.S. Navy vessel in the Persian Gulf on Thursday night, according to IRNA, Iran’s official news agency.
Nine killed in Iran mosque attack
AFP: Nine people were killed and over 100 wounded Saturday when a bomb ripped through a mosque in Iran’s southern city of Shiraz, in an unprecedented strike on a non-frontier Iranian urban centre, officials said.
