Top Stories
AP: "The hard-line spiritual mentor of Iran's president
has made a rare public call for producing the 'special weapons' that are a
monopoly of a few nations, which represents a veiled reference to nuclear arms."
http://nyti.ms/burBX0
NYT: "The European Union is likely to agree on tough new
sanctions against Iran that cover further investment in the country's oil and
gas industry as well as its financial sector, Foreign Secretary William Hague
of Britain said Monday." http://nyti.ms/bLpy7o
BBC News: "Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says a
nuclear fuel swap deal brokered by Brazil and Turkey is still on the table,
despite the adoption of new UN sanctions last week. Mr Ahmadinejad said the deal could help
defuse the conflict with Western powers over Iran's nuclear program." http://bit.ly/bWrSH6
Nuclear Program
Radio Farda: "Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin
Mehmanparast has said the European Union decision to impose additional
sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program was 'wrong and illogical.'" http://bit.ly/dgumzp
Dow Jones: "Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi, trade minister of
the United Arab Emirates, said Monday that last week's United Nations sanctions
against Iran shouldn't hurt the investment climate in the region. 'Iran has been a challenge to the region for
a while,' Qasimi said in answering questions following a speech to the
U.S.-U.A.E. Business Council. 'However,
the drive taking place in the U.N. Security Council puts the right pressure and
the right checks and balances' in place, she said." http://bit.ly/biW5m1
Commerce
AFP: "Iran on Tuesday signed contracts worth 21 billion
dollars with local firms to develop six gas fields, some of them awarded to the
elite Revolutionary Guards, state media reported. The state television website said the 'contracts to
develop the South Pars gas fields -- phases 13, 14, 19, 22, 23 and 24 -- were
inked with three consortia including Khatam al-Anbiya,' the Guards' industrial
conglomerate." http://bit.ly/b7npKx
Reuters: "Iran's central bank will guarantee foreign investors a return of 10 percent on their capital, a newspaper reported on Saturday." http://bit.ly/9XDYJr
Human Rights
AFP: "Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi on
Tuesday called for those who 'committed fraud' in last year's presidential poll
to be prosecuted, as he vowed to keep the anti-government movement alive." http://bit.ly/9m9vOc
AFP: "Seventy-one Iranian women 'improperly' dressed were
prevented from boarding flights in recent months, an airport official said on
Monday, as a police crackdown on the behavior of young people intensified."
http://bit.ly/92dXhr
Opinion
The Economist: "And yet, for all their faults, and for
all of the frustration they have created, this week's sanctions are a vital
part of holding Iran to account for nuclear proliferation. That is why Iran, in
spite of dismissing the sanctions as a 'used handkerchief', has fought them
hard (see article). Nobody could argue
with a straight face that this week's sanctions were unjustified." http://bit.ly/bG6YbP
Reuel Marc Gerecht in NYT: "In 1985 - when no case
officer could even dream of widespread pro-democracy demonstrations in Tehran
like those that occurred a year ago this week - I first arrived on the Iran
desk in the C.I.A.'s Directorate of Operations. One of my colleagues was an older
man who had entered the agency in its early days, when liberal
internationalists and hawkish socialists ran most of America's covert-action
programs." http://nyti.ms/bwyML8
Nir Boms and Shayan Arya in WSJ: "Just over a month ago,
on May 9, five political prisoners, including female activist Shirin Alam Holi,
were executed in secret. Not even their families or lawyers were notified
beforehand. At least 25 other men and women await the same fate. Female activists, who are growing in numbers,
emerged as the new arch enemy of the ayatollahs. After all, as we recently
learned from Iranian cleric Hojjat ol-eslam Kazem Sediqi, women cause
widespread death and destruction." http://bit.ly/9pFb1f
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