The Latest from Iran (30 March): Life After the Party

1452 GMT: Three Kuwaiti soldiers, two Iranians and one Kuwaiti national, have been sentenced to death for spying for the Iranian regime. The three soldiers, and several other civilians, were arrested in May 2010 and accused of passing information about Kuwaiti and U.S. military operations to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. 

Two civilians, a Syrian and another Arab, were given life sentences, and two Iranians were aquitted. 

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Ramin Mehman Parast, has denied any Iranian involvement with a spy network in Kuwait.

1444 GMT: Human Rights - Mohsen Dogmechi, political prisoner incarcerated at Rajai Shahr prison, has died from cancer and "lack of medical care. According to A Street Journalist, Dogmechi was refused medical help despite the urging of several doctors that Dogmechi be transferred to a hospital for chemotherapy. 

1434 GMT: Bahrain's opposition leader, Sheikh Ali Salman, sends a clear message to the Iranian regime today. "We urge Iran not to meddle in Bahraini internal affairs." 

1415 GMT: James Miller reports for duty, and finds many interesting developments in Iran.

GVF is reporting that Mir Esmail Mousavi, father of Presidential Candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, has died after a long illness. He was 97. 

This is a death that will likely have political repercussions. Mir Hossein Mousavi and his wife Zahra Rashnavard have been held under house arrest since February 14, without formal charges, and was not at his fathers side during his death. It is also unknown whether or not the Iranian security forces will allow Mousavi or his wife to attend funeral services.

If Mousavi is allowed to leave his home, it will be interesting to see whether or not he returns there afterwards. If he is not allowed to leave his home, expect the opposition movement to react.

Mehdi Karroubi and his wife Fatemeh are also still under house arrest.

0510 GMT: Labour Front. Workers at the Javeh Dam in Kamyaran in Iranian Kurdistan have been on strike for more than two weeks over six months' unpaid wages.

0500 GMT: Suddenly, Damasrus Arises. There is one new feature on the Iranian media landscape this morning. After days of ignorance, Fars devotes not one but two of its top three stories to Syria: 1) an interview with the head of a pro-Assad newspaper, "Hitting Syria is Hitting the Resistance"; 2) "People of Syria in a National Demonstration in Support of President Bashar al-Assad".

0430 GMT: Back to "normal", if fairly quiet, service in Iran on Tuesday after the end of the Government's New Year ceremonies.

Questions lingered over the festivities. Why had the plans for the big ceremony at Persepolis, the ancient seat of Persia, disappeared? Where had the Government found the $3 million that was spent on the show that was still put on for several regional leaders?

But State media are back to their familiar roles. Fars' daily contribution to the Supreme Leader's theme of "economic jihad" is a statement from the Vice Chairman of Parliament's National Security Committee. 

And then there are the standard articles around Iran's foreign policy successes. IRNA leads with the Egyptian Foreign Minister's formulaic declaration that Cairo will pursue links with Tehran. Press TV re-cycles the news, but its latest Iran story --- complete with the photograph below --- is that President Ahmadinejad talked to his Paraguayan counterpart Fernando Lugo Mendez about cooperation:

At home, reporting is devoted to the Minister of Oil's announcement that Tehran will invest $90 billion in South Pars gas and oil projects this year and that 1st Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi has joined an unveiling ceremony for "a locomotive which runs on a domestically-made heavy diesel engine".