AP: Iran’s opposition leader says President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s foreign policies are destructive and his performance as president should be judged in a referendum.
Opposition leader seeks referendum on Ahmadinejad
Iran insists computer worm was Western plot
AP: Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman is claiming that a computer worm found on the laptops of several employees at the country’s nuclear power plant is part of a covert Western plot to derail the Iranian atomic program.
In sign of discord, Iran blocks web sites of some clerics
New York Times: The web sites of two senior clerics have been blocked by government censors, a possible sign of a hardening political divide at the highest level of Iran’s religious establishment.
Ahmadinejad tells West to put more pressure on Iran
AFP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad challenged the West on Tuesday to put more pressure on Iran, which he said would fail to make any impact on the Islamic republic or its atomic programme.
Jewellers continue strike in Tehran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 04 – From the Grapevine… A strike by jewellers and goldsmiths across Tehran continued into its second week.
Iraq lifts oil reserves estimate, overtakes Iran
Bloomberg: Iraq raised its estimate of national crude oil reserves to 143.1 billion barrels, Oil Minister Hussain Al-Shahristani said today, overtaking Iran as home to the world’s fourth-largest petroleum deposits.
Iran clears ex-British embassy staffer of espionage
AFP: Iran has cleared a former British embassy employee who was jailed last year on espionage charges, and commuted his sentence to a suspended one-year jail term, his lawyer said on Monday.
Iran blames Bushehr delay on “small leak”, not virus
Reuters: A small leak in a pool near the reactor caused a delay in starting up Iran’s first nuclear power plant but it has now been fixed, a senior official was quoted as saying on Monday.
Egypt, Iran agree to resume direct flights
AFP: Egypt and Iran agreed on Sunday to resume direct flights between their capitals, three decades after the two nations severed diplomatic relations, an AFP correspondent said.
Ahmadinejad calls for US leaders to be ‘buried’
AP: Iran’s president Sunday called for U.S. leaders to be “buried” in response to what he says are American threats of military attack against Tehran’s nuclear program.
