Reuters: Iran’s president said on Sunday the publication of a U.S. intelligence report saying Iran had halted a nuclear weapons program in 2003 amounted to a “declaration of surrender” by Washington in its row with Tehran.
Iran says U.S. report a “declaration of surrender”
Iran says no date fixed for atom plant completion
Reuters: No date has been fixed for completing Iran’s first nuclear power plant but Russia is serious about finishing the long-delayed project, Iran’s Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.
Ahmadinejad blames critics for Iran inflation woes
AFP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday blamed his political rivals and the global economy for stoking inflation in Iran, amid increasing domestic criticism of his economic policies.
Iran protests to Azerbaijan over spy trial
AFP: Iran angrily protested to Azerbaijan on Sunday and summoned its ambassador over “baseless” accusations that Iranian secret services were plotting a coup in the former Soviet republic.
Iran to let missing US man’s wife visit
AP: Iran will allow an American woman to travel to Tehran to get information about her husband, a former FBI agent who was last seen at a resort island off the country’s southern coast, the Foreign Ministry said Sunday.
Iran shuts down 24 cafes in Internet crackdown
Reuters: Iranian police have closed down 24 Internet cafes and other coffee shops in as many hours, detaining 23 people, as part of a broad crackdown on immoral behaviour in the Islamic state, official media said on Sunday.
Tossed from a car and shot in cold blood
Sunday Times: It was just after 11pm and the shopkeeper was closing up for the night when a van screeched to a halt outside. The back doors flew open. Someone inside threw a woman onto the street, he said. She was lying on the road but she was still alive. A man lent out and shot a machine-gun into her body.
I felt a new terror on Basra’s streets
Sunday Times: As one of the first journalists to visit Basra without military protection in recent years, Marie Colvin finds Islamic militias are waging a brutal campaign for control in Iraqs second city.
Iraqi FM: U.S, Iran postpone talks on Iraqi security
Xinhua: Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari confirmed Saturday that U.S and Iranian officials had postponed their talks on Iraqi security, Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported.
Germany expelled Iran diplomat for atomic work – Spiegel
Reuters: Germany expelled an Iranian diplomat in July after he tried to acquire components for the Islamic Republic’s disputed nuclear programme, a magazine reported on Saturday.
