Reuters: U.S. prosecutors are investigating Deutsche Bank and several other global banks over business linked to Iran, Sudan and other nations currently under international sanctions, the New York Times reported on Saturday.
Deutsche Bank investigated in U.S. over Iran
Iran exiles say will move group to new Iraq site
AFP: An Iranian opposition organisation said on Saturday it is ready to move another group of its Iraq-based members to a new site near Baghdad after a delay which has dragged on for several months.
Iran commander ‘welcomes’ possible Israeli strike
AP: A senior Iranian commander says a possible Israeli airstrike against his country’s nuclear facilities is “welcome” because it would give Iran a reason to retaliate and “get rid of” the Jewish state “forever.”
UN leader slams Iran president’s Israel comment
AFP: UN leader Ban Ki-moon is “dismayed” by the latest anti-Israel comments made by Iranian leaders, a spokesman said.
Iran: Israel’s existence ‘insult to all humanity’
AP: Israel’s existence is an “insult to all humanity,” Iran’s president said Friday in one of his sharpest attacks yet against the Jewish state, as Israel openly debates whether to attack Iran over its nuclear program.
What Obama isn’t saying about Iran
Wall Street Journal: The United States doesn’t want Israel taking military action against Iran’s nuclear program, and top officials have been traveling to Jerusalem this summer to make their case in person.
Iranians show little confidence in gov’t response to devastating earthquakes
FoxNews: Tensions are flaring between the Iranian government and the Iranian people, who are criticizing minimal rescue efforts in the aftermath of tandem magnitude 6.3 and 6.4 earthquakes that rattled Iran’s northwest East Azerbaijan province Saturday.
Iranian currency traders find a haven in Afghanistan
New York Times: With American and European sanctions spurring a currency crisis in Iran, officials say a growing number of Iranians are packing trucks with devalued rials and heading to the freewheeling currency market next door in American-occupied Afghanistan, to trade for dollars.
Struan Stevenson: Refugees face certain death without US help
Scotsman: Many innocent refugees are facing death in camps in Iraq and only the US can save them. More than 3,000 men and women are at the mercy of brutal Iraqi military guards who have shown on two previous occasions their willingness to kill in cold blood.
Iran’s Ahmadinejad says no place for Israel in new Middle East
Reuters: Many thousands of Iranians shouted “Death to America, death to Israel” during state-organized protests on Friday and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told them there was no place for the Jewish state in a future Middle East.
