Reuters: The U.N. nuclear watchdog appears no closer to finding out what happened at a military site at the center of its investigation into suspected atom bomb research by Iran, despite signs Tehran is becoming more cooperative.
Despite nuclear probe progress, IAEA access to key Iran site elusive
Iran Facebook page wants women lashed for unveiled photographs
Bloomberg: A Facebook page seeks lashes and imprisonment for Iranian women who posted photographs of themselves without headscarves on the social media website. The anonymous page asks viewers to identify the women in the pictures.
Iran slams Syrian opposition chief
AFP – Iran said Sunday that Syrian opposition chief Ahmad Jarba was the “most inappropriate person” to lead the war-torn country, referring to talks between Jarba and Maryam Rajavi, head of the People’s Mujahedeen Organisation of Iran (PMOI), who lives in exile.
Ashton, Iran’s Zarif to meet Monday in Istanbul: media
AFP: EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif are to meet Monday in Istanbul to review progress on negotiations toward a nuclear deal, media reports said.
Iraqi Kurds slam Baghdad legal action over oil shipment
AFP- Iraq’s Kurdistan region on Sunday slammed legal action filed by the central government against Turkey, saying it was illegitimate and likely to fail, in the latest sign of worsening ties with Baghdad.
The head of the Syrian opposition supports the Iranian Resistance
AFP: The head of the Syrian opposition , Ahmad Jarba, lent his support to the President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran ( NCRI opposition in exile), Maryam Rajavi, at a meeting in Paris, according to the NCRI.
Iran ‘promoting terrorism in Gulf’
Gulf Daily news: Iran has come under fierce attack for backing terrorism in GCC countries and Bahrain in particular. It was accused of using Shi’ites in Gulf nations as a sectarian tool to threaten their regimes and spread terrorism.
Imprisoned ex-US Marine seeks Iran retrial
AP: An Iranian news agency is reporting that a former U.S. Marine convicted of working for the CIA has appealed for a new trial. ISNA news agency quotes Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaei, a lawyer of Amir Hekmati, as saying the retrial request comes over a possible mistake by the judge in the case.
US places sanctions on senior Tehran official
AFP: The United States placed sanctions on Tehran province’s public security chief Morteza Tamaddon Friday, saying he was involved in censorship and intimidation of protesters and opposition leaders.
Report: Iran billionaire executed over $2.6B fraud
AP: A billionaire businessman at the heart of a $2.6 billion state bank scam, the largest fraud case since the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, was executed Saturday, state television reported. Authorities put Mahafarid Amir Khosravi to death at Evin prison.
