UPI: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has reiterated that his nation has no plans to end its nuclear program despite international criticism.
Iran standing firm on nuclear rights
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard builds empire
UPI: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has built an economic empire that now oversees everything from dentistry to travel to huge building projects, it was reported.
Iran does not see OPEC changing output
Reuters: Iranian caretaker Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari said on Saturday he believed OPEC’s current crude oil production was enough and did not expect the cartel to change output when it meets next month.
Iran slow to markedly expand atom work
Reuters: Iran seems to have made little progress towards enriching uranium in significant amounts this summer but it is unclear whether technical problems or fear of stiffer U.N. sanctions lie behind the slowdown, diplomats say.
Iran: Nuclear program not slowed
AP: Iran said Sunday its nuclear activities have not halted or slowed down, rejecting reports that it has not significantly expanded its uranium enrichment program this summer as planned.
Quake hits southern Iran, four hurt – report
Reuters: A 4.7-magnitude earthquake struck a southern region of Iran on Saturday and injured four people, the state broadcaster reported on its Web site.
Iran set to begin smart-bomb production
UPI: Iran said it would begin production of a new precision smart bomb for its air force this weekend.
General rips Iran as Iraq foe
Washington Times: A top Army commander in Iraq yesterday said Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is trying to disrupt U.S. military gains by ramping up weapons and training support for radical Shi’ite groups.
Iraq Kurds accuse Iran of cross-border shelling
Reuters: Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq accused Iran on Friday of launching shells across the border, causing damage to farmland but no injuries.
Iran’s hangmen work overtime to silence opposition
Daily Telegraph: Stonings, hangings, floggings, purges. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad might claim that United Nations sanctions can’t hurt his country, but that is not how it feels for Iran’s long-suffering population which now finds itself on the receiving end of one of the most brutal purges witnessed since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
