UPI: Production from an oil field in the Strait of Hormuz should increase to 30,000 barrels per day because of upgrades, the Iranian Oil Ministry said Tuesday.
Iranian oil field slated for upgrade
Underground music flourishes in Iran
AP: Heavy metal guitarists jamming in basements. Headphone-wearing disc jockeys mixing beats. There’s an underground music scene flourishing in Iran, despite government restrictions.
Iraqis mourn Shiite fighter killed in Syria
AP: Hundreds in Baghdad mourned on Tuesday a Shiite fighter killed in Syria, one of an unknown number of Iraqis who went to fight in the neighboring country for what they consider a religious duty to protect Shiite shrines.
Report: Iran, Sudan using U.S.-made monitoring tools
USA TODAY: Apparently skirting U.S. sanctions, Iran and Sudan are using Silicon Valley-made Internet-monitoring devices on government and commercial networks, The Washington Post reported Monday.
Iran starts 5-day naval exercise in Caspian Sea
AP: An Iranian semi-official news agency is reporting that the country’s navy has started an exercise in the Caspian Sea. A Fars story Monday quotes Adm. Khordad Hakimi, chief of the northern naval fleet, as saying that the maneuver in Iran’s territorial waters will end Thursday.
Government to assign email addresses to all Iranians
Reuters: Iran is to assign all citizens an individual email address which the communications minister said on Monday would aid interaction between state authorities and the people.
Iran involved in $3.5 billion of hydro water works, Times says
Bloomberg: Iran is implementing hydropower project water works abroad valued at $3.5 billion, Tehran Times reported, citing Iranian Deputy Energy Minister Alireza Daemi.
U.N. nuclear agency and Iran may meet in August: diplomats
Reuters: The U.N. atomic agency and Iran may hold a new round of nuclear talks in August, diplomats said on Monday, in what would be their first meeting since last month’s election of a relative moderate as the Islamic state’s president.
Iran not to import wheat from India on disease concern
Indiatimes: Iran will not import wheat from India on apprehensions over presence of a fungal disease in the grain. Iran has informed the Indian authorities about their concern over the disease called Karnal bunt and its inability to purchase wheat.
Iraqi Kurdistan chief in Baghdad for talks on disputes
AFP: The president of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, Massud Barzani, held landmark talks in Baghdad on Sunday with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on an array of disputes plaguing relations between the two sides.
