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Revolutionary Guards die in Iran clashes (AP via Yahoo! News)
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Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:03:30 GMT

An armed group killed 11 members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard in clashes in the country's lawless southeast, state-run television reported Saturday.


Potter fans in Iran join global frenzy over wizard's fate (AFP via Yahoo! News)
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Sat, 21 Jul 2007 18:53:26 GMT

Harry Potter fans in Iran will have to wait weeks for a Farsi translation of the series finale, but an elite group of English-speaking readers in the Islamic republic still joined the worldwide frenzy over the teenage wizard's fate early on Saturday.


Iran hangs murderer, drug trafficker (AFP via Yahoo! News)
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Sat, 21 Jul 2007 14:36:49 GMT

Iran has publicly hanged a convicted murderer in the western city of Khoramabad, and a drug trafficker in the southeastern town of Zabol, media reports said Saturday.


MPs critical of Iran stories sale (BBC News)
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Sat, 21 Jul 2007 23:20:56 GMT

A committee of British MPs criticise the decision to allow the Royal Navy crew captured by Iran to sell their stories.


Iran accused of training old Afghan enemies to fight US (IANS via Yahoo! India News)
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Sun, 22 Jul 2007 02:59:34 GMT

Herat (Afghanistan), July 22 (DPA) Erstwhile enemies who once stood on the brink of war, Iran and the Taliban now appear linked by conflicts against the US, as officials and political analysts accuse Tehran of training and arming the Afghan insurgents.


Report criticises British map used in Iran crisis (Reuters via Yahoo! India News)
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Sat, 21 Jul 2007 23:35:29 GMT

LONDON (Reuters) - A British map of the northern Gulf where Iran seized 15 naval personnel in March was not as accurate as it should have been and Britain was fortunate Iran did not contest it, a review into the crisis said on Sunday.


Haleh Bakhash: My mother is enemy in Iran (New Hampshire Union Leader)
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Sun, 22 Jul 2007 04:13:24 GMT

LAST WEDNESDAY marked 6 1/2 months since masked agents of Iran's Intelligence Ministry robbed my mother, Haleh Esfandiari, of her belongings and passports at knife-point. It had been more than 70 days since her incarceration in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison before I finally saw her last week -- not as a free woman, but in footage of a KGB-style television "confession" broadcast by Iran's ...


Iran’s edge over Korea in Cup quarters (Khaleej Times)
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Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:26:40 GMT

KUALA LUMPUR - Three-time champions Iran are looking to continue their quarter-final edge over South Korea at the Asian Cup here Sunday. For the fourth consecutive tournament Korea and Iran are meeting in the quarter-finals, with the Iranians leading 2-1 on head-to-head meetings.


Report: Iran to fund Syrian arms deals (UPI)
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Sat, 21 Jul 2007 14:09:37 GMT

Iran has reportedly agreed to help Syria acquire a massive arsenal of weapons in exchange for Syria refusing to enter into peace talks with Israel.


Revolutionary Guards Die in Iran Clashes (The Daily Comet)
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Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:13:30 GMT

TEHRAN, Iran An armed group killed 11 members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard in clashes in the country's lawless southeast, state-run television reported Saturday.