• ElBaradei walks out on EU envoy’s speech that doesn’t agree with his position.
  • ElBaradei’s protest statement
  • After having won ElBaradei’s support to ignore Iranian violation of Safeguards Agreement and UN resolutions on enrichment, Ahmadinejad now questions IAEA Additional Protocol (scroll down to 2nd item), which enables more robust inspections and technology sharing, and which Iran signed.
  • Ahmadinejad again endorses the IRGC and its efforts to peace.
  • “The IRGC, which emerged from foundation of the Islamic Revolution, has become a strong sapling, serving the international peace and tranquility.”
  • Supreme Leader’s official paper’s headline: “Only Iran can give salvation to Iraq.”
  • Iranian official paper’s editorial calls Petraeus speech “comical.”
  • The US General’s report will no doubt go a long way in securing yet another $50 billion demanded by the Bush administration to fund the war in Iraq. So Iraq’s agony is likely to continue languishing under an illegal occupation well into 2008 and beyond. But the key question remains that if Iraq played no part in highly suspicious 9/11 events why should it be illegally invaded and kept under occupation with the US aggressors demanding the lion’s share of Iraq’s oil and gas reserves for the next twenty-five years?
  • Vladimir Putin to visit Tehran in October.
  • New links between Iran and Zimbabwe.
  • Iranian labor leaders and Osanlou’s family remain imprisoned amidst ongoing crackdown.
  • White House, State Department, Robin Wright at the Washington Post, continue silence.
  • Photo of the Day: At the Tehran exchange.