AFP: Israel and the United States have agreed to work together to prevent the smuggling of weapons from Iran to militant groups in the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday.
Israel, US to jointly fight Iran arms smuggling: Netanyahu
Khamenei halts Iran president’s grilling by parliament
AFP: Parliament has scrapped plans to summon President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over Iran’s economic woes following an intervention by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the ISNA news agency said on Wednesday.
Fill brought to Iran site IAEA wants to inspect: diplomats
Reuters: Iran has been hauling dirt to a military site U.N. nuclear inspectors want to visit, Western diplomats said on Wednesday, saying the findings were based on satellite images and they reinforced suspicions of a clean-up.
Commander: Iran missile technology sent to Gaza
AP: Iran has supplied Hamas in Gaza with the technology to “quickly” produce longer-range missiles on their own without needing direct shipments, said a report Wednesday that quoted the head of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard.
Iran speaker confirms military aid to Hamas
AFP: Iran has supplied military aid to the Islamist group Hamas in Gaza locked in a conflict with Israel during which it has fired missiles at Tel Aviv for the first time, the parliament speaker said Wednesday.
Ahmadinejad off the hook as Iran’s parliament withdraws summons
Reuters: Iran’s parliament called off plans to grill President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said they must not act in the interests of Iran’s enemies.
US sides with Iran and N. Korea in record UN vote over the death penalty
Daily Telegraph: A record 110 countries on Monday backed a resolution voted every two years at a UN General Assembly committee calling for the abolition of the death penalty.
Cyber attacks from Iran and Gaza on Israel more threatening than Anonymous’s efforts
New York Times: Anonymous, the loose coalition of hackers waging war on Israeli Web sites, is the least of Israel’s cyber problems. Its campaign against Israel is a minor annoyance compared with a wave of cyber attacks that have hit the country over the last year from Iran and Gaza.
Iran earns more than $112 million in fishery exports
Bloomberg: Iran has earned more than $112 million in eight months through the export of sea products, the state-run Mehr news agency reported, citing Issa Golshahi, an official with Iran’s Fisheries Organization.
China’s Iran crude imports decline 23% in October, customs says
Bloomberg: China’s imports of crude oil from Iran fell 23 percent in October from a year earlier to 1.94 million metric tons, according to data released today by the General Administration of Customs. September’s imports were 1.57 million tons.
