AFP: South Africa’s Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma will this week meet her Iranian counterpart for talks touching on Tehran’s nuclear programme, the Middle East and trade, her spokesman said Sunday.
South Africa and Iran to discuss nuclear, Mideast, trade issues
Iran denies visa to key atomic inspector – diplomats
Reuters: Iran has denied entry to a senior U.N. nuclear inspector and cut back on multiple-entry visas that ease monitoring of its atomic sites as world pressure mounts on Tehran to stop enriching uranium, diplomats say.
Iran says it won’t halt atomic work
Reuters: Iran said on Sunday it would not suspend uranium enrichment, ruling out the main demand in a nuclear package backed by six world powers that aims to allay Western fears that Tehran is seeking to build atomic bombs.
Iran army tests missiles in wargames
Reuters: Iran’s army has fired tactical missiles and will test surface-to-sea missiles during Iranian army wargames on Sunday, state television reported.
Iran ready for Israel action after Lebanon war – army
Reuters: A senior Iranian army commander said on Saturday the armed forces were prepared for any action by Israel after what Iran has called the Jewish state’s defeat at the hands of Lebanon’s Hizbollah guerrillas.
Man hanged in Iran
AFP : An Iranian man convicted of murdering his wife was hanged in the northern town of Sari, an Iranian newspaper reported on Saturday.
Blair doing lasting damage to UK, says Iranian leader
The Guardian : President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran has urged British voters to throw Tony Blair’s government out of office to prevent Britain being drawn into new foreign policy “disasters” in the Middle East.
Romanians accuse Iran over rig
AME Info : Romanian drilling company Grup Servicii Petroliere is threatening to take the Petro Iran Development Company to the International Court of Justice at The Hague in order to retrieve an oil rig which it claims has been seized in an act of piracy, reported Gulf News.
Turkey-Iran:Gas pipeline talks suspended
Alarab online : Turkey and Iran on Friday broke off talks on the construction of a gas pipeline linking Iranian gas fields to Europe.
Iran mortars Kurd camp in north Iraq, official says
Reuters: An Iraqi Kurdish official accused Iranian forces on Friday of firing a prolonged barrage of mortar shells at a camp of Kurdish guerrillas in northern Iraq, killing two civilians and wounding three others.
