(With thanks to Ali Alfoneh for help in compiling)
- Yes to Columbia, no to Tehran: Ahmadinejad’s speech at Tehran University cancelled after the student union, Daftar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat, demanded the right to ask questions about violated students rights in Iran in an open letter to the Iranian president
- Iranian feminist criticism of Ahmadinejad’s Columbia remarks on the alleged freedom of Iranian women.
- Indonesian labor leader visits Iran to plead for imprisoned Iranian bus driver union leaders Mansour Osanlou and Ebrahim Madadi’s release.
- Sugar Cane factory strike enters fourth day.
- Condoleezza Rice, George Bush remain silent on Iranian labor crackdown.
- 722 academics and political personalities protest against recent political arrests in an open letter.
- Khamenei’s personal representative in Mazandaran Province: Ahmadinejad is the son of Imam Sajjad, the Fourth Imam of Shi’a Muslims.
- Iran says it links Iraq to its power grid, as USAID fails to restore Iraqi power despite billions allocated.
- Iraq now Iran’s second-largest trade partner.
- Preparing for Qods Day (on Friday)—Annual declaration that Jerusalem must be liberated.
- Ayatollah Kani: ‘recognition of the occupying regime will never bring peace to Palestine and the Zionist regime cannot live without bloodshed.’
- Interior Minister seeks massive turnout.
- Army to take part in rally.
- Iranian Jewish community forced to support.
- Former Iranian ambassador to Damascus urges funding for Hamas.
- Foreign Ministry think-tank predicts peace process will fail.
- Iran credits its nuclear defiance with empowering other countries worldwide.
- European Parliament hosts Iran’s parliamentary speaker.
- Iran blames U.S.-backed terrorists for assassination of cleric in Iranian Baluchistan
- Iran seeks closer ties with African states.
- Picture of the Day: Watching the President speak.