• Ahmadinejad: Our nuclear power demonstrates our enemies’ inability to stop us.
  • While the State Department considers the IRGC to be a rogue element whose actions are distinct from the regime, the Supreme Leader says:
  • “The IRGC [is] a divine blessing for the Iranian nation and lauded it for the service it has offered over the past 28 years.”
  • “The IRGC should maintain its popular nature.”
  • Headline in official paper: “IRGC is the guardian of national honor”
  • New IRGC leader gives speech.
  • Iran urges IAEA to be realistic.
  • “We hope that the decisions and statements that will be issued by the board to be more adaptive with existing realities.”
  • Larijani: Enrichment suspension is unacceptable. More.
  • ElBaradei to defend his Iran plan to IAEA Board of Governors.
  • Our allies, the Pakistanis on Iran’s nuclear program:
  • “The start of operation by the largest nuclear power plant of the world of Islam will fill us with much pride and honor.”
  • Rafsanjani: Iran and Iraq should form a common market.
  • State Department continues to seek to involve Iran in Iraq’s security arrangements.
  • Commentary on forthcoming Petraeus report.
  • All is well internally. There’s nothing to see here.
  • Any reports of domestic discord must be CIA plots.
  • Bomb diffused at Tehran University.
  • Explosion on Iran-Turkey gas pipeline.
  • Five labor leaders arrested in August after trying to meet with the head of the Bus Drivers’ Union are now charged with crimes against the security of the state.
  • State Department silent on independent labor crackdown.
  • More on arrest of labor leader’s family.
  • Bush abandons Osanlou in a way Reagan would never do with Walesa.
  • Iran considering currency reform, dropping three zeros.
  • Chinese diplomat: Iran is China’s key trade partner in the Middle East
  • “Despite U.S. machinations.”
  • “We need Iran’s natural resources, while in turn, Iran needs China’s modern technologies.”
  • Photo of the Day: Aftermath of fatal (Vahed) bus crash in Tehran. More.