Los Angeles Times: Iran’s supreme leader gave a ringing endorsement Saturday to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s foreign policy, suggesting that Iran’s top authority favors an ultraconservative, hard-line bloc over moderate elements seeking rapprochement with the West.
Iran’s supreme leader affirms policies
Iran and Venezuela discuss “defeating imperialism”
Reuters: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told his Iranian counterpart on Sunday the two oil-rich states, which have forged close ties in opposition to the United States, should cooperate to defeat imperialism, Iranian media said.
U.S.: Hezbollah Iran’s proxy in Iraq
AP: Iran is using the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah as a “proxy” to arm Shiite militants in Iraq and Tehran’s Quds force had prior knowledge of a January attack in Karbala in which five Americans died, a U.S. general said Monday.
Top Iran leaders aware of Qods Force in Iraq: U.S.
Reuters: Senior Iranian leaders know about the operations of Iran’s Qods Force in fomenting violence in Iraq, the U.S. military said on Monday, in some of the most direct accusations yet against Tehran over the chaos in Iraq.
Iran ‘baring its teeth’ in Afghanistan, officials say
AFP: In public, Afghanistan has played down US and British allegations that Iran is feeding weapons to Taliban insurgents, but in private, officials here say the charges are true — and worrying.
Iran rules out nuclear freeze
AFP: Iran on Sunday again ruled out a freeze to its uranium enrichment programme, despite the threat of tougher UN sanctions over its defiance.
Venezuelas Chavez in Iran for talks
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran. Jul. 01 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is in Tehran for talks with senior Iranian officials, state media reported on Sunday.
Iran reviews nuclear “time out” idea: official
Reuters: Iran is reviewing a “time out” proposal to stop its uranium enrichment expansion in return for a halt to further U.N. sanctions, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Sunday.
Iran unhappy about Blair’s Middle East envoy job
Reuters: Iran criticised on Sunday Tony Blair’s appointment as Middle East peace envoy but welcomed his successor as British prime minister, Gordon Brown.
Tens of thousands denounce EUs terror tag on Iran opposition
Iran Focus: Villepinte, France, Jul. 01 Tens of thousands of Iranians converged on a Paris exhibition centre on Saturday in support of the main Iranian opposition group, and to denounce EU action against the group.
