NCRI - The Iranian regime’s suppressive forces have attacked a number of Sunni residences and followers of the Allameh Moftizadeh order in Seqez. So far 10 people have been arrested.

NCRI - While the Iranian regime’s maximum prison capacity is 80,000, there are now more than 205,000 prisoners in Iran, according to the latest semi-official statistics. In addition, more than 8 million legal cases are registered every year in the regime’s judiciary.

RadioZamaneh - Amidst rallies issued through a number of social networks for people to participate in tomorrow’s demonstrations, Iranian security forces have been brandishing security manoeuvres while web users report evident reduction in internet speeds and frequent interruptions.

RAHANA- Subsequent to Fatemeh Karroubi’s letter of protest to Ayatollah Khamenei last night, and the government’s fears  of the presence of Mehdi Karroubi at the Qods Day march, since 10 p.m. tonight and with pre planed and coordinated actions a large number of Basij gathered in front of the residence of Mehdi Karroubi.

Examiner - On the eve of annual Palestinian solidarity rallies, the Islamist Basij militia in Iran was more than proud to show off two new video games that are currently in development which depict the "crimes" of the Israeli people. One of the games, which has been titled "Assault on Freedom Convoy" revolves around the commando raid executed by Israel on May 31.

Payvand - Yesterday Mehdi Karroubi visited Mir Hossein Mousavi. In this meeting, which lasted two hours, various issues of the society and the country were discussed.  This included Iran's Green Movement, Economy, Corruption and Qods Day.

RFE/RL - Mojtaba Zolnour, deputy representative of Iran's supreme leader in the Revolutionary Guard, has said that "Zionists" are waiting for the Hidden Imam to appear to kill him.

Hojatoleslam Zolnour made the comments earlier this week at Qom University.

RFE/RL - Nasrin Sotoudeh has made a career fighting the good fight, defending numerous rights activists and others facing trumped-up charges by the Iranian regime.

BEIJING (AFP) – EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton urged China Thursday to create a better investment environment for European businesses and maintain a joint stand on the Iranian nuclear issue.

AP - OSLO, Norway – The lawyer who defended a woman sentenced to death by stoning in Iran was reunited with his family in Norway Thursday.

Mohammad Mostafaei said he was pleased his wife and 7-year-old daughter were allowed to travel to Norway on tourist visas.

BRASILIA (AFP) – The son of Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, pleaded Thursday for Brazil to keep up its campaign to try to save his mother's life.

Newsweek - Reports suggest that the hardline government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may be engaging in a more subtle crackdown on opposition leaders.

(1 September 2010) Authorities in the Islamic Republic of Iran are continuing to arrest and jail civil society activists while persecuting and prosecuting independent lawyers, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reported today.

insideIRAN.org - Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said yesterday that foreign policy must be conducted only through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Days earlier, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appointed his controversial Chief of Staff, Esfandiar Rahim. Mashaie, as Special Envoy to Middle East.

Tehtan Review - News reached TehranReview that the Dutch think thank Clingendael is promoting the Ahmadinejad government. An Iranian academic who lives in exile because of his involvement with the Green Movement sent us a letter about this, revealing that Clingendael has shamelessly invited some representatives of the Iranian government.

NCRI - A physicist from the country of Azerbaijan specializing in laser technology, who spent a year and a half in Iranian prisons and was recently released and extradited to his native country, has revealed his experience at the Iranian regime’s prisons as well as the regime’s tactics to hold him captive.

NCRI - The life of Arjang Davoudi, a political prisoner, is in serious danger on his 50th day of hunger strike. He has been in Ward 3 of Gohardasht Prison since July 14 as a political prisoner. He went on hunger strike in protest to pressures by the regime including ban on family visits and confiscation of his private house leaving his family homeless. Since November 2003, he has been subjected to various forms of torture and pressures in several prisons including Evin, Bandar-Abbas and Gohardasht.

Radio Zamaneh - Zahra Rahnavard, Iranian opposition figure, was attacked by a group of plainclothes forces of the Islamic Republic on the streets of Tehran.

Kaleme website reports that the attack occurred a few nights ago in an alley close to her residence.

Radio Zamaneh - Fatemeh Karroubi, wife of Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi, in a letter to Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, condemned the attacks made on her home and family by the pro-government crowds.

Radio Zamaneh - Chairwoman of European Parliament's Subcommittee in Human Rights issued a statement calling for the immediate release of Iranian human rights activist, Shiva Nazar-Ahari.

VOA - Iran has extended a credit line of more than $250 million to Bolivia as development aid.  

Iranian Minister of Industries and Mining Ali Akbar Mehrabian announced this week in a press conference that he signed the deal with Bolivian officials while on a visit to the capital city of La Paz.

RAHANA- Mojgan Ebadi, Nasim Rouhi, Jinous Jooshian, Afrooz Rouhi and Farzad Rouhi were previously arrested in the neighborhood of the Marhoomeh Ghole Mousa Khan, near Vila Shahr.

RAHANA: Yousef Soleimani, Younes’s brother, stated that “in a prison visit with my brother on Wednesday August 25^th, I found out that he was tortured by electrical shocks and psychotropic injections.”

Guardian - In mid-August, the leaders of Iraq's Shia political blocs were summoned to Tehran for what amounted to a reprimand. Invitations were sent to all the parties that contested the 7 March general election except one – Ayad Allawi's.

Guardian - A demonstrator joins Iranian exiles protesting against the possible stoning of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani in Iran in front of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate on 5 August. Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Guardian - The west should use force against Iran if it "continues to develop nuclear weapons", Tony Blair said today, aligning himself with US hawks who have called for strikes against Iranian nuclear sites.

(Reuters) - Turkey's gasoline exports to Iran dropped by a hefty 74 percent in July after U.S.-led sanctions against the Islamic Republic came into force, figures obtained by Reuters from Turkey's statistics office showed on Wednesday.