AFP: Twelve people were killed and at least 202 wounded when an explosion ripped through a packed mosque in Iran’s southern city of Shiraz during prayers by a prominent cleric, officials said on Sunday.
Iran mosque blast kills 12, wounds over 200
First Persia Fund opens Iranian stock market to foreigners
Bloomberg: First Persia Equity Fund Ltd., the only fund in which foreign investors can buy Iranian stocks, has opened its second-phase of subscription as it aims to raise 250 million euros ($395 million).
Iran activists protest feminist’s arrest
AFP: Hundreds of Iranian civil rights activists have signed an open letter calling for the release of a women’s rights advocate arrested for “acting against national security”, reports said on Saturday.
Iran envoy set for talks with UN nuclear chief
AFP: The head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation is to travel to Vienna on Monday for talks with the head of the UN nuclear watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei, the official IRNA news agency said.
Iran denies confrontation at sea with U.S. Navy
CNN: Iran denied a report that several of its boats taunted a U.S. Navy vessel in the Persian Gulf on Thursday night, according to IRNA, Iran’s official news agency.
Nine killed in Iran mosque attack
AFP: Nine people were killed and over 100 wounded Saturday when a bomb ripped through a mosque in Iran’s southern city of Shiraz, in an unprecedented strike on a non-frontier Iranian urban centre, officials said.
Bomb blast in south Iran mosque kills 9, wounds 105
Reuters: A bomb exploded in a mosque in the southern Iranian city Shiraz on Saturday, killing at least nine people and wounding more than 100, Iranian media reported.
Iraqi militias feeling pushback
Washington Times: Tribal leaders in southern Iraq are starting to push back against Iranian-supported militias in Basra, cracking their hold over the economically crucial province, Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker said yesterday at two separate roundtable interviews with reporters.
Inside the ring
Washington Times: Iran is developing a new long-range missile that was test launched in February and has more in common with current Iranian missiles than Tehran claims it has for a satellite-launch program, according to Jane’s Intelligence Review.
Iran renews call for own enrichment center
UPI: Iran wants to export fuel from what would be an international uranium enrichment center, an Iranian nuclear official said Friday.
