(With thanks to Ali Alfoneh and Omeed Jafari for their assistance in compiling)
- Ahmadinejad: “There are those who claim they are ‘statesmen’, able of negotiating with the United States. But they are spies, delivering our nuclear secrets to the enemy. We have stopped them…”
- Iranian student organization Advar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat meets former presidential hopeful Mehdi Karrubi to demand student colleagues be freed from prison.
- Ahmad Ghassaban and Majid Tavakoli transferred into the “common criminal” section of Evin Prison
- Mohsen Kadivar, Iranian cleric and religious reformer now critical of the absolute rule of the Supreme Jurist, prohibited from acting as a Friday prayer leader.
- Jimmy Carter headlines Iranian press: “The Bush administration is an accomplished torturer.”
- Clinton offers negotiations without preconditions, not even a suspension of enrichment during the course of talks. Her concession headlines press.
- German prosecutor announces that he will free Iranian and Lebanese hit men convicted in 1992 Mykonos café murders of Iranian dissidents in Berlin.
- The German government determined the hit had come on the orders of Supreme Leader Khamenei and then-President Rafsanjani.
- No change in Imprisoned labor leader Mansour Osanlou’s status.
- State Department, White House refuse any comment.
- Number of Iranian pilgrims to holy Shi’i shrines in Iraq increases to 5,000 per day.
- Iran and Russia seek to strengthen ties.
- Iran to increase participation in Senegalese Free Trade Zone?
- UAE to invest in Iran’s Hormuzagan (Bandar Abbas) province
- ‘Ali Kordan appointed new oil minister.
- Celebrating Doris Lessing’s Iranian connection.
- Japanese student kidnapped.
- Picture of the Day: Iranian Shahab-3b missile launch.
