Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 09 A man was hanged in public in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz.
Iran hangs man in public
Iran ready for more U.S. talks over Iraq
Reuters: Iran is ready to hold more talks with its arch enemy the United States to help secure Iraq, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday.
UN nuclear envoy due in Iran as West ups pressure
AFP: The deputy head of the UN atomic watchdog visits Iran on Wednesday as the West turns up the pressure on Tehran to suspend its nuclear drive or face more sanctions.
Iran president says no to extra petrol
AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday that any sales of petrol outside a rationing plan would fuel already-rampant inflation, state news agency IRNA reported.
Iran president’s adviser defends reformist newpaper’s ban
AFP: A top adviser to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday defended a ban on the main reformist party’s newspaper, alleging some media sought to overthrow the government.
Iran slowing down uranium enrichment work: ElBaradei
Reuters: Iran has slowed the expansion of its disputed uranium enrichment program, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Monday, after Western powers threatened to hit Tehran with harsher sanctions.
Lets undo the concessions to Iran
Human Events – by Jed Babbin: Let it be said once and with precision: whether George W. Bush recovers his political clout is much less important than many other problems we face. Those who are charting paths for his recovery are just reprocessing the conservative principles that the president has spent the last six years rejecting.
Tunneling near Iranian nuclear site stirs worry
Washington Post: The sudden flurry of digging seen in recent satellite photos of a mountainside in central Iran might have passed for ordinary road tunneling. But the site is the back yard of Iran’s most ambitious and controversial nuclear facility, leading U.S. officials and independent experts to reach another conclusion: It appears to be the start of a major tunnel complex inside the mountain.
Iran media accused of trying to oust president
The Guardian: Allies of Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have accused the media of trying to depose him in a “creeping coup”, raising fears of a fresh clampdown on opposition newspapers and websites.
Britain’s Miliband issues nuclear warning to Iran
Iran Focus: London, Jul. 09 – Britain’s new Foreign Secretary David Miliband has issued a warning to Iran that it “doesnt have the right to set off a nuclear arms race in the Middle East”.
