AFP: Iran will pursue its nuclear drive in a "normal fashion" and will produce itself the fuel necessary for its Tehran medical reactor, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Monday.
Iran will pursue its nuclear activity ‘normally:’ FM
Iran braces for protests as up to 1m attend funeral of reformist cleric
The Guardian: Hundreds of thousands gather in Qom for Ayatollah Montazeri's funeral just as traditional day of protest looms
Crowds gather to mourn reformist Iran cleric Montazeri
BBC: Crowds of mourners are gathering in the Iranian city of Qom following the death of leading reformist cleric Grand Ayatollah Hoseyn Ali Montazeri at 87.
Iran leader says report of nuclear trigger work ‘fabrication’
AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has dismissed a British newspaper report that said Iran is working on a trigger for a nuclear bomb as a "fabrication," in an interview with US television released Sunday.
Iran to punish unauthorised filmmakers: report
AFP: Iran will punish actors and directors who make unauthorised films, an official said in a report on Sunday after several such movies won international awards.
Iran’s dissident Grand Ayatollah Montazeri dies
BBC: One of Iran's most prominent dissident clerics, Grand Ayatollah Hoseyn Ali Montazeri, has died aged 87.
Iran troops ‘leave oil well, still in Iraq’
AFP: Iranian troops who for three days controversially occupied a disputed border oil well left the facility during the night but remain on Iraqi soil, Iraq's government spokesman said Sunday.
Iran claims an oil field it seized
New York Times: The Iranian government said Saturday that an oil field that its troops occupied a day earlier was on its side of the border with Iraq, despite Iraqi claims to the contrary.
Mullen: ‘concerned’ about Iran’s influence in Iraq
AP: America's top military officer says there's no evidence that the takeover of an oil well in southern Iraq by Iranian forces is an attempt to influence Iraq's upcoming elections.
Iran acknowledges oil well takeover
AFP: Iran on Saturday acknowledged its takeover of an oil well on the Iraqi border but insisted the well lies on its land, playing down the fallout from the first such incident since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
