Iran News – Award-winning Iranian journalist hospitalised in jail: report (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Award-winning Iranian journalist hospitalised in jail: report (AFP via Yahoo! News)
An award-winning Iranian journalist and rights activist has been hospitalised in jail in Tehran after returning to prison from sick leave, a press report said on Monday.

Iran’s reserves in foreign banks increases 36% to $81B (Payvand Iran News)
Iranian reserves in foreign banks in mid-February 2008 reached over $81 billion, Iran’s central bank announced on Sunday.

Iran, IAEA to resume discussions on N-plan (Gulf Times)
TEHRAN: Iran and the UN nuclear agency watchdog will resume talks on Tehran’s disputed nuclear programme in the Iranian capital today, an Iranian official was quoted as saying yesterday.

‘Rapping’ Iranian Men (Payvand Iran News)
Not allowed to sing in Iran about the harsh treatment of women in society, the Iranian rap group Tapesh 2012 (Pulse 2012) is doing just that — from its base in Germany. The group’s latest song, “Ma Mard Nistim” (“We Are Not Men”), focuses on the Iranian feminist movement and its struggle to overcome violence against women. -RFE

U.N. and Iran hold talks on disputed nuclear work (The Star)
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran and the U.N. atomic watchdog began talks on Monday on the Islamic state’s disputed nuclear programme, which the West fears is a front to build weapons, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Iran summons UK envoy over opposition group ruling (Reuters.co.uk)
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry summoned Britain’s ambassador on Monday in protest at a decision by three British judges to uphold a ruling that the government was wrong to ban an Iranian opposition group as a terrorist organisation.

Iran hard-liners come out against Iraqi-US deal (Boston Herald)
TEHRAN, Iran – Two hard-line newspapers seen as speaking for Iran’s clerical establishment called today for Iraqis to oppose a strategic framework deal with the United…

3rd round of Iran-IAEA nuclear talks begins in Tehran (Payvand Iran News)
Iranian officials and a technical delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) started their third round of negotiations at Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization (IAEO) in Tehran on Monday.

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