AP: Iran’s nuclear chief Fereidoun Abbasi says his country won’t stop uranium enrichment activities the U.N. has demanded it halt.
Iran won’t stop uranium enrichment program
UN envoy disputes Iraq’s PM on Iranian exiles
AP: The departing head of the U.N. mission in Iraq on Monday bluntly disputed Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s account of their farewell meeting, saying he did not embrace the government’s efforts to deport a group of Iranian exiles by the end of the year.
US hikers in Iran jail seek appeal
AFP: The lawyer of two American hikers sentenced to eight years in jail on charges of espionage and illegal entry told AFP Sunday he has appealed the verdict, stressing his clients are innocent.
Iran launches production of banned carbon fiber
AP: Iran has inaugurated its own production of carbon fiber, a material under U.N. embargo because of its potential use in the country’s controversial nuclear program, the official IRNA news agency reported Saturday.
Iranian dissidents gather high-profile support
Washington Post: Politicians, former national security officials and thousands of others gathered outside the State Department on Friday to call for the removal of the Mujahedin-e Khalk, an Iranian opposition group, from the list of foreign terrorist organizations.
Region must solve issues on its own, Iran tells Qatar
AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the visiting Qatari emir the region must resolve issues on its own, saying Western “interference” would complicate the situation, the presidency website reported Friday.
Iran’s Ahmadinejad: No place for Israel in region
AP: Iran’s president says there will be no room for Israel in the region after the formation of a Palestinian state.
Protesters hope to end terrorist label for Iranian group
McClatchy Newspapers: Thousands of supporters of Iran’s leading opposition group rallied outside the State Department on Friday, calling on the agency to take the group off its list of terrorist organizations.
Russia ‘surprised’ by Iran’s legal complaint over S-300
AFP: Russia said Thursday it was surprised by Iran’s move to lodge a legal complaint against Moscow over the cancellation of an S-300 missile contract, insisting that sanctions had tied its hands.
Release Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal
New York Times – Editorial: The American hikers Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal have spent 755 days in Iran’s brutal Evin prison. They never should have been arrested, much less held for so long.
