The Latest from Iran (31 October): Arrested at Neda's Grave
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 8:03
Activists Peyman Aref, Asal Esmailzadeh, and Sharar Konoon Tabrizi --- arrested on Sunday at the grave of Neda Agha Soltan --- with Parvin Fahimi, the mother of Sohrab Arabi, who was killed during the first mass march on 15 June 2009
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The Latest from Iran (30 October): When Talking Tough Is Not Enough....
1630 GMT: Currency News. Mehr carries the news, put out by the reformist newspaper Shargh this weekend, that the Iranian rial has weakened beyond the 13000:1 level v. the US dollar. When the threshold was first crossed this summer, the Central Bank put dollars into the market to try and boost the flagging Iranian currency.
The website also says gold coins are becoming rare as people hoard them because of their rising value.
1620 GMT: All-is-Well Alert. The head of Iran's atomic energy programme, Fereydoun Abbasi, has said Tehran will announce "good nuclear developments in the near-future".
Abbasi asserted that neither the country's nuclear industry nor "activities in other domains" had been halted by US-led sanctions.