• Larijani to U.S.: Don’t enrage us by pressing the IRGC terror case the way you did the nuclear issue.
  • IRGC monitors every enemy movement in the Persian Gulf.
  • Larijani: We will stop cooperating with the IAEA if the West again brings the nuclear issue to the UN.
  • Accepting our nuclear ambitions is key to resolution.
  • Larijani in anti-American rant.
  • We will not be afraid of America.
  • Supreme Leader appoints new navy chief.
  • Iranian ambassador in Baghdad (and IRGC commander) Hasan Kazemi Qomi summarizes Iranian projects in Iraq.
  • SCIRI leader Abdulaziz Hakim’s fourth round of chemotherapy ends in Tehran.
  • Headline: “Bush’s Advisor: We’ve been defeated but we will remain in Iraq.”
  • Hardline press covers Foreign Policy and Center for American Progress poll of (pre-selected) opinion-makers saying surge is failing.
  • Production on new jetfighter, nearing testing on new Ya-Husayn training aircraft.
  • Flashback: Rice’s State Department urges licensing of export of aircraft parts to Iran.
  • Video of Iranian F4E simulator.
  • Tehran University hostage situation ended.
  • Released Iranian hostages to fly home from Pakistan
  • (For background, see August 19 Iran News Round Up).
  • Supreme Leader’s paper blames U.S. for hijacking, hostage taking in Iranian Baluchistan.
  • “The same blood-curdling abuse was carried out with gay abandon at Abu Ghraib against the Ba’thists who used to be Uncle Sam’s blue-eyed boys as long as it served the US purpose to wage the 8-year war against the Islamic Republic and terrorize the Iraqi nation.”
  • Iran fourth-largest producer of Peugeot cars.
  • Iran and Kazakhstan triple trade.
  • Ahmadinejad heads to Azerbaijan.
  • After Islamist victory in Turkey, Ahmadinejad seeks closer relations.
  • Picture of the Day: Iranian diplomats stationed abroad take instruction from Supreme Leader.
  • Supreme Leader’s advice of the day: “Drinking Something Served by a Non-Muslim”
  • Question: One of our workmates is not Muslim (a Buddhist) and he serves us water and tea. Are we allowed to drink what he serves?
  • Answer: If he you are confident that he had not touched them [the drink] with his body along with transmitting moisture, there is no objection to drinking them.