Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 19 One of Irans most senior clerics has been taken to intensive care after the state of his health sharply deteriorated, it was announced on Thursday.
Senior Iranian clerics state of health sharply deteriorates
Iran: 2nd round of talks with U.S. soon
AP: Iran’s foreign minister said Wednesday that his government had accepted a U.S. request for ambassador-level talks on Iraq, to be held “in the near future.”
UN agency welcomes ‘positive’ Iran moves
BBC: The head of the UN’s atomic energy agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, has welcomed Iran’s decision to allow inspections of its heavy water reactor at Arak.
Iranian TV airs video of jailed American scholar
Washington Post: Shaul Bakhash, his daughter at his side, waited in front of the television screen yesterday for a glimpse of his wife, Haleh Esfandiari — the first time he would see her in the seven months since the local scholar traveled to Tehran to visit her 93-year-old mother and ended up facing house arrest, intense interrogations and now solitary confinement in Iran’s most notorious prison.
Iranian TV shows 2 Iranian-Americans
AP: Iranian state television broadcast video of two detained Iranian-Americans on its nationwide channel Wednesday night, purporting to show them making incriminating statements about plotting subversion in Iran.
Irans Ahmadinejad to go to Syria
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 18 Irans hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will make a state visit to Syria to meet and hold talks with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad on Thursday, state media reported.
Iran stays hanging of convicted teenager – report
Reuters: Iran has stayed the execution of a teenage boy convicted of murder for 10 days, Iran’s Students News Agency ISNA quoted his lawyer as saying on Wednesday.
Irans Ahmadinejad to go to Syria
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 18 Irans hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will make a state visit to Syria to meet and hold talks with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad on Thursday, state media reported.
Iranian militants demand return of British diplomatic compound
The Guardian: Britain’s tense relations with Iran are likely to be further strained next week by an officially linked campaign demanding the handover of the British embassy residence compound in Tehran.
U.S. ‘outraged’ at Iran for parading American citizens on TV
Bloomberg: The U.S. State Department said it’s “outraged” at the treatment of four American citizens detained in Iran, after two of them were shown on state television allegedly confessing to espionage charges.
