Daily Mail: A couple due to be stoned to death today for adultery are thought to have had a last-minute reprieve.
Australians ‘repelled Iran navy’
BBC News: Iranian naval forces in the Gulf tried to capture an Australian Navy boarding team but were vigorously repelled, the BBC has learned.
Iraq wants second round of US-Iranian talks
AFP: Iraq is working to set up a second meeting between Iranian and US officials soon to prevent the arch-foes from using Iraq as a “battleground to settle scores,” Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said here Wednesday.
EU’s Solana confirms Saturday talks with Iran nuclear envoy
AFP: EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana confirmed Thursday that he would hold talks with Iran’s top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, in Portugal this weekend.
France expels Iranian suspected of ties to nuclear drive: report
AFP: France has expelled a 28-year-old Iranian engineering student suspected of links to the country’s nuclear programme, the Le Parisien daily reported Thursday.
Kuwaiti diplomat returns from Iran beaten and bruised
Kuwait Times: Bruised and battered, a Kuwaiti diplomat attacked by a mob in front of the Kuwait Embassy in Tehran returned home to Kuwait yesterday. Mohammad Al-Zobi, third secretary to the Kuwait Embassy in Tehran, flew home on a government jet sent by the HH Amir after the Tuesday assault.
PLO official says Iran supported Hamas to use force in Gaza
Xinhua: A senior Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) official on Tuesday accused Iran of supporting Islamic Hamas movement to use force against the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) in the Gaza Strip.
U.S. refuses to free 5 captured Iranians until at least October
Washington Post: The United States will not release five Iranians detained in a U.S. military raid in northern Iraq until at least October, despite entreaties from the Iraqi government and pressure from Iran, U.S. officials said. The delay is as much due to a communication and procedural foul-up within the U.S. government as a policy decision, they added.
British hostages held by Iran-backed killers
The Times: A group funded, trained and armed by Iran was responsible for kidnapping five British civilians in Baghdad last month, according to the commander of US forces in Iraq.
Man hanged in public in southern Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 20 – Authorities executed a 40-year-old man in public in southern Iran, state media reported on Wednesday.
