Reuters: California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill on Sunday, as he previously said he would, to bar the two biggest U.S. public pension funds from investing in companies doing business in Iran.
California bill to divest Iran investments signed
Congress must approve US attack vs Iran – Pelosi
Reuters: President George W. Bush must seek congressional approval before taking any military action in Iran, unless Tehran attacks the United States first, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Sunday.
Putin to visit Tehran this week as planned: Iran
Reuters: Russian President Vladimir Putin will arrive in Tehran as planned on Monday evening, Iran’s Foreign Ministry said, after reports about a possible plot to assassinate him during his visit for a Caspian Sea summit.
Putin told of plot to kill him in Tehran-Kremlin
Reuters: President Vladimir Putin has been warned by his special services of a possible plot to assassinate him during a visit to Tehran this week, the Kremlin said on Sunday.
Iran president to nominate oil minister in days – report
Reuters: Iran’s president is expected to nominate caretaker Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari as permanent minister by the end of this week or next week, a presidential aide was quoted on Sunday as saying.
No news on abducted Japanese: Iran
AFP: Iran said on Sunday it has no new information about the fate of a Japanese student who was kidnapped last week by bandits in the restive southeast of the country.
Captive Israeli soldiers ‘held in Iran’
AFP: Two Israeli soldiers captured by Lebanon’s Shiite movement Hezbollah in 2006 have been handed to Iran and could be freed in a German-brokered swap, an Arabic newspaper reported on Sunday.
Clinton talks about Iran
AP: Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton advocated talks to settle differences with Iran but said Saturday that Tehran would invite U.S. action if it were to disrupt oil supplies.
Analysts find Israel struck a nuclear project inside Syria
New York Times: Israels air attack on Syria last month was directed against a site that Israeli and American intelligence analysts judged was a partly constructed nuclear reactor, apparently modeled on one North Korea has used to create its stockpile of nuclear weapons fuel, according to American and foreign officials with access to the intelligence reports.
Russia’s Putin hunts diplomatic solution in Iran
Reuters: Russian President Vladimir Putin will show his preference for dialogue with Iran when he visits Tehran on Tuesday, amid calls from the West for stronger pressure on Iran to curb suspected plans for a nuclear bomb.
