AFP: A grandson of Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini has withdrawn from next week’s parliamentary polls amid a smear campaign, the press reported on Sunday.
Khomeini’s grandson quits Iran race after slurs: report
West seeks pretexts to use against Iran: Ahmadinejad
Reuters: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in remarks published on Sunday that some Western countries were using Iran’s nuclear activity as a pretext to pressure his country.
U.N. says Iran may not have come clean on nuclear past
Washington Post: Iranian documents obtained by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog strongly suggest that Iran was working on a nuclear weapons design as recently as four years ago, U.N. officials disclosed last week in a private briefing.
‘Stop exporting terror,’ Bush tells Ahmadinejad
AFP: US President George W. Bush on Saturday told his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that he must “stop exporting terror” on the eve of the Iranian leader’s first visit to Iraq.
Iran: Talks with US help Iraq security
AP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday that U.S.-Iran talks have helped improve security in Iraq but he rejected claims that the Islamic republic is fueling violence there, the state news agency reported.
US: Iraqi women bomber trainer caught
AP: The U.S. military announced the capture Saturday of an insurgent leader who was recruiting and training women, including his wife, to wrap themselves in explosives and blow themselves up the latest sign that al-Qaida in Iraq plans to keep using women to carry out suicide attacks.
Iran slams UN sanctions meeting
AP: Iranian officials said Saturday that U.N. Security Council debates on new sanctions over the country’s nuclear program would be illegal and fresh sanctions would undermine global security.
Iraq should tell Iran to stop war supplies – Bush
Reuters: U.S. President George W. Bush said on Saturday the Iraqi government should use a visit by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to tell Tehran to stop arming Iraqi militias and to insist on “breathing space” to let democracy develop.
Iran to boycott Paris book fair
AFP: Iran said on Saturday it is boycotting this year’s Paris book fair in protest at Israel being invited as guest of honour, the state-run IRNA news agency reported.
Iran brushes off new UN sanctions threat
AFP: Iran on Saturday brushed off the prospect of new UN Security Council sanctions over its controversial nuclear programme, saying such measures would have no effect on its defiance of the world body.
