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AP: "Germany and Russia declared Saturday that the five
world powers negotiating with Iran support a fresh set of international
sanctions, and Chancellor Angela Merkel said they could pass soon. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said at a
news conference with Merkel that 'agreement on the sanctions exists,' despite
the fact that 'nobody wants sanctions.'" http://bit.ly/aI2zcd
Telegraph: "In the latest deal, an Iranian company
associated with the regime's nuclear program has acquired control systems from
one of Germany's leading electronics manufacturers. The deal was negotiated
with a prominent Dubai trading company, which then sold Iran a range of
electronic equipment for use at its Natanz uranium enrichment facility." http://bit.ly/blx45o
Radio Farda: "The UN atomic watchdog is starting a
week-long meeting in Vienna today, with Iran's controversial nuclear program at
the top of the agenda. The meeting of
the International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-member board of governors comes as
the UN Security Council prepares to pass another round of punitive measures
against Iran over its refusal to halt sensitive nuclear activities." http://bit.ly/detOEh
Nuclear Program
AFP: "President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is heading to China
this week to discuss the threat of new UN sanctions over Iran's nuclear program,
as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said world powers have the necessary
votes at the Security Council." http://bit.ly/9r1vfz
AP: "The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency singled
out Iran on Monday as a 'special case' for his monitoring teams because of
suspicions it might be hiding experimental nuclear weapons programs. A senior
Iranian envoy said Israel is the true threat to Mideast peace." http://bit.ly/cgYrLg
AP: "U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said
Sunday she thinks Iran will 'pull some stunt' in the next few days because it
expects further United Nations sanctions over its nuclear program." http://bit.ly/cxL4qM
NYT: "An Iranian immigrant who said he came to the United
States 'to live the American dream' was convicted on Friday of violating the
Iran trade embargo by using an informal money-transfer system known as hawala
to move millions of dollars between the United States and Iran." http://nyti.ms/dy3fHO
Human Rights
WP: "Iran's leaders warned political dissidents Friday
that they have strayed from the Islamic Republic's path, the latest threats in
a purge of politicians who once followed the Islamic revolutionary leadership
but who are now aligned with the country's vocal opposition." http://bit.ly/dBw1y3
WP: "At least two people have been killed and dozens of
families have fled in the mountains of the semiautonomous Kurdish region during
two weeks of heavy air strikes and artillery attacks that come from neighboring
Iran. The dead include a 14-year-old
girl and a 45-year-old woman." http://bit.ly/aDGQFh
LAT: "Just days before the one-year anniversary of Iran's
disputed presidential elections, the nation's opposition leaders are attempting
to rally around an unlikely figure: revolutionary founder Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini's grandson, who was loudly heckled by hard-liners during a ceremony
Friday in honor of his grandfather." http://bit.ly/aapLIu
Foreign Affairs
AFP: "The Iranian Red Crescent has decided to send two
aid ships to Gaza this week in the latest bid to break the blockade imposed on
the Palestinian territory by Iran's regional archfoe Israel. Red Crescent director for international affairs Abdolrauf
Adibzadeh told the state IRNA news agency late on Sunday that the decision to
send the ships was taken after a meeting with the foreign ministry." http://bit.ly/bW97Ah
AP: "The head of Iran's central bank is denying the
country plans to sell billions in euros as the currency weakens because of
Europe's debt crisis. Central Bank
Governor Mahmoud Bahmani was quoted in Sunday's edition of the state-run Iran
newspaper as saying a report early last week in a local newspaper that Iran
plans to replace 45 billion euros of its foreign currency reserves for U.S.
dollars was 'not correct.'" http://bit.ly/a0V1oz
Culture
NYT: "Parisa remembers the precise moment she heard her
first song by Shahin Najafi, an Iranian rapper living in exile in Germany, on
her illegal satellite television in the small city of Karadj, west of Tehran." http://nyti.ms/ckLVyE
Opinion
Maziar Bahari in Newsweek: "'This is the beginning of the
end of the Islamic Republic as we know it,' I told my editors at NEWSWEEK in a
hastily written e-mail from Tehran on the night of June 20, 2009. 'I don't know
how long is it going to take for the Islamic regime to fall. Khamenei has
learnt many lessons from the Shah's downfall and is not making the same
mistakes.' It seemed clear in any case that the rule of Iran's Supreme Leader,
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was doomed." http://bit.ly/b954n4
David Matten in The National: "A year ago this month an
estimated one million people poured onto the streets of Tehran. Those crowds -
bazaari traders and academics, young and old, conservative pragmatist and
fractious liberal - were drawn together by outrage over what they called a
stolen presidential election: the incumbent president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, had
been returned via ballot box numbers that appeared then, as they do today,
fraudulent. The opposition candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi told supporters that
he had been cheated out of power." http://bit.ly/aDojju
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