- Tensions between Netanyahu and the Obama administration increased when Israeli news media began running stories about Mr. Netanyahu being deliberately left in the dark regarding the details of the talks with Iran. The Obama administration has denied such allegations as patently false. Additionally, U.S. officials, in blunt language, stated that Israel is distorting the reality and misleading the public over the Iran nuclear negotiations.
- An Iranian news agency reported the death of an Iranian fighter in clashes against the self-proclaimed Islamic State. According to the Fars News Agency the Iranian fighter, Mohammad Hadi Zolfaghari, died fighting “terrorists.”
- The self-proclaimed Islamic state claimed responsibility for the twin bomb attacks on the residence of the Iranian ambassador in the Libyan capital and a rocket strike on the eastern Labraq airport. Iran's official IRNA news agency confirmed the blasts and said there had been no casualties, adding Iran had already suspended operations there.
- Iranian media has been banned from mentioning former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami. Social media campaign. As a response, Iranians took to social media to challenge the media ban on the former president.
- This week Mohammad Ali Movahedi Kermani, Tehran’s temporary Friday Prayer imam, stated that next year’s election winners of the Assembly of Experts must be submissive to the Supreme Leader. Continuing with the theme of eloquent statements by Iranian officials, he also stated that those in the Assembly of Experts hope to initiate an act against the Supreme Leader “can’t do shit.” The question is why he and others participate in the Assembly of Experts elections if they "can't do shit."
- After much criticism, the University of Massachusetts Amherst backtracked and released a statement that said the university will once again accept Iranian students into its science and engineering programs.
- The spokesman for the Rouhani administration, Mohammad Bagher Nobakht, stated that over $700 billion dollars “vanished” from Iran in the last five to six years.
- Human Rights Watch and a host of other international groups called for a halt in the planned execution of Saman Nasim, a Kurdish youth who was arrested at 17 for his involvement with armed opposition groups and related crimes. Reports emerged that Mr. Nasim was executed, but shortly thereafter, Mr. Nasim’s family stated that he had not yet been executed.
- Days after celebrating the Islamic Revolution of 1979 with chants of “Death to America,” Iran opened an international tourism exhibition with a different slogan: "You are invited."
- Qomefarda wrote about the supply and sale of obscene books in Tehran. The website claims that lewd books published in Afghanistan and Azerbaijan are being illegally exported to Iran. The article, seeming more satirical than serious, states: “another book published in Afghanistan that is currently available in stores in Iran is ... written by Vladimir … first published in 1955 […].” I suppose the name of the book and the last name of the author are so obscene that the publishers of Qomefarda can’t even mention.