Reuters: A U.S. arms control official on Monday urged China, which has always promoted dialogue with Iran over its nuclear programme, to observe sanctions against Tehran aimed at forcing it to drop its nuclear ambitions.
U.S. urges China not to take advantage of Iran sanctions
Jailed Iran protesters on hunger strike: websites
AFP: A group of 17 Iranian political prisoners, including journalists and student activists, have been on hunger strike for a week demanding better treatment, opposition websites reported on Monday.
US envoy: Iran, NKorea nukes threaten security
AP: New sanctions against North Korea will target narcotics trafficking, money counterfeiting and other “illicit and deceptive” activities that provide the regime with hard currency used to build nuclear weapons, a senior U.S. envoy said Monday.
Iran guards warn US against attack over nuclear work
AFP: Iran will make the strategic Gulf region unsafe for all if it comes under attack by the United States over it nuclear programme, the deputy head of the elite Revolutionary Guards said on Sunday.
Iran sees ‘positive’ signal over fuel swap
AFP: Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has said Iran was witnessing a “positive” feedback from the Vienna group over a proposal to supply Tehran with nuclear fuel, an Iranian television channel reported.
U.S. nears key step in European defense shield against Iranian missiles
Washington Post: The U.S. military is on the verge of activating a partial missile shield over southern Europe, part of an intensifying global effort to build defenses against Iranian missiles amid a deepening impasse over the country’s nuclear ambitions.
Iran guards attack political prisoners on hunger strike in Evin
Iran Focus: London, Aug. 01 – Anti-riot units and Special Forces barged into Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison after learning that prisoners in Ward 350 had staged a mass hunger strike, the Arabic-language satellite channel, Al-Arabiya, reported on Sunday.
Iraq unlikely to allow Iran banks due to sanctions
Reuters: Two Iranian banks seeking to open branches in Iraq are unlikely to get government approval due to economic sanctions imposed on Tehran in a row over its nuclear programme, an Iraqi central bank official said on Sunday.
Mullen says US has Iran strike plan, just in case
AP: The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff says the U.S. military has a plan to attack Iran, although he thinks a strike is probably a bad idea.
Mistaken as an Iranian martyr, then hounded
New York Times: Zahra Soltani, whom everyone calls Neda, will never forget the day she saw her death announced on television, accompanied by the picture she had posted on her Facebook page.
