AFP: Iranian students on Monday staged a protest against the jailing of three colleagues, shouting slogans against officials and proclaiming the prisoners’ innocence, Iranian news agencies reported.
Iran students protest over jail sentences
Iran defiant on atomic plans
Reuters: Iran will not abandon its right to nuclear technology despite the threat of more sanctions, it told France in a letter published on Monday, a day before talks to try to defuse its row with the West.
Iran to France: sanctions won’t stop atomic plans
Reuters: Iran will not abandon its right to nuclear technology regardless of threats of more sanctions, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said in a letter to his French counterpart issued on Monday by an Iranian news agency.
LUKOIL says US sanctions threaten Iran oil project
Reuters: Russian oil firm LUKOIL said on Monday it would soon have to stop work at the Anaran oil project in Iran because U.S. sanctions meant it could not invest more than $20 million in the huge development.
Russia dismisses G-7 concerns over risks of dealing with Iran
Bloomberg: Russia dismissed concerns by Group of Seven finance ministers and central bankers over Iran, after the group rebuked the country, calling on banks worldwide to be wary of risks of doing business with the Islamic republic.
Coalition kills 49 in hunt for Iran-tied insurgent leader
Iran Focus: London, Oct. 22 Coalition forces killed at least 49 people on Sunday during operations in the Baghdad slum Sadr City aimed at capturing a senior official of a rogue armed Shiite militia backed by Iran, the U.S. military announced.
Coalition kills 49 in hunt for Iran-tied insurgent leader
Iran Focus: London, Oct. 22 Coalition forces killed at least 49 people on Sunday during operations in the Baghdad slum Sadr City aimed at capturing a senior official of a rogue armed Shiite militia backed by Iran, the U.S. military announced.
Iran’s president moves to tighten grip on nuclear policy
The Guardian: Doubts surrounded the future of Iran’s foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, yesterday after the departure of the country’s chief nuclear negotiator appeared to signal a significant power shift to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Iran targets couples in continued moral crackdown
AFP: Iran’s police are to keep up their moral crackdown through the winter months, confronting couples whose behaviour in public is deemed to be inappropriate, officials said on Sunday.
Irans former nuclear envoy to aid successor
New York Times: Irans chief nuclear negotiator, who resigned Saturday, will accompany his replacement to nuclear talks in Rome on Tuesday with Javier Solana, the European Unions foreign policy chief, the Foreign Ministry said Sunday
