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.
Iran president to nominate oil minister in days – report
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.
U.S. military technology being exported illegally is a growing concern
The Washington Post: Pentagon investigators thought they had discovered a major shipment of contraband when they intercepted parts for F-14 Tomcat warplanes headed to Iran, via FedEx, from Southern California. Under U.S. sanctions since its 1979 revolution, Tehran had been trying for years to illegally obtain spare parts for the fighters, which are used only in Iran.
Irans top cleric calls for boycott of peace talks
New York Times: Irans supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, called Saturday for all Muslim countries to boycott an American-sponsored meeting for Middle East peace that is planned for late November.
In Brief: Iran hangs two in Kurdish region
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 13 Two men were hanged in the province of Kurdistan, north-west Iran, earlier this week on the World Day Against the Death Penalty.
In Brief: Iran hangs two in Kurdish region
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 13 Two men were hanged in the province of Kurdistan, north-west Iran, earlier this week on the World Day Against the Death Penalty.
