In his latest remarks, former Parliament speaker and reformist presidential contender Mehdi Karoubi supported the recent complaint filed by seven senior members of the Mosharekat and Mojahedin of Islamic Revolution parties relating to “illegal interference” of security and intelligence agents in the June 2009 presidential election.

Attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh spoke to Rooz after her office was raided by Iran’s security agents and announced in her exclusive interview that she was given a summons to appear in court within three days on charges of “assembly and conspiracy to disrupt national security and propaganda against the regime.”

In an open letter to human rights activists Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani’s son Sajjad Ghaderzadeh asserted that his father’s murder files were missing and expressed concern about the possibility of a setup through which evidence had been planted and files were altered. Sakineh received international attention recently because of her stoning sentence that was on the verge of execution.

While several senior Islamic Republic officials have emphasized the “necessity of unity in recent days, one of Ahmadinejad’s aides yesterday announced that the chief executive did not wish to participate in the Expediency Council sessions, despite ayatollah Khamenei’s request for Ahmadinejad do to so.

In his latest remarks, Mir-Hossein Mousavi noted that “The Iranian people’s green movement has brought compassion and closeness among different sectors of society,” adding, “With all our differences of opinion, beliefs, cultures and ethnicities, we will gradually cease to stutter and will converse with one another with more ease.”

With the arrival of Ali Darabi to replace Morteza Mir-Bagheri, a change was made to the state radio and television broadcasting corporation’s most important deputy director’s position.

In his speech yesterday, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad implicitly referred to Hashemi Rafsanjani and Nategh-Nouri as “corrupt” politicians and announced that “overthrowers have not been punished yet.” Overthrowers is the term he uses for the leaders of the reform movement in Iran.

These days mark the 31st anniversary of the start of the war in Iranian Kurdistan, an event that offers useful and instructive lessons in the history of Kurdistan and Iran. This war which later came to be known as the “Kurdish War” was officially launched on August 19, 1979 on the orders of ayatollah Khomeini and brought about huge consequences, many of which remain till today.

While, since the beginning of the new Iranian year, the Majlis and the administration have had serious disagreements over issues ranging from implementation of the laws to Azad University to the subsidy reform plan, the Majlis and the administration participated in a joint meeting yesterday to display their readiness to resolve their differences.

On Saturday, a report came out of Tehran the most important element of which the phrase, “finally.” Russia and Iran began delivering fuel to the Bushehr nuclear reactor after a three-decade delay.