Daily Mail: In recent weeks the situation surrounding the safety of 3,400 members of an Iranian opposition group based in Iraq has taken a significant turn in the halls of the White House.
Camp Ashraf safety a final legacy for the US in Iraq
Organization of Islamic Cooperation suspends Syria
Reuters: The 57-member body’s rebuke is mostly symbolic, but it shows Syria’s isolation – as well as that of its ally Iran – across much of the Sunni-majority Islamic world.
Standard Chartered sued in U.S. over Iran ties to Lebanon bombing
Reuters: The estates of the victims of the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut sued Standard Chartered seeking compensation over the bank’s concealment of Iran-linked transactions.
Syrian rebels said to be holding elite fighters from Iran
New York Times: American officials said Wednesday that they had obtained credible information that at least some of the 48 Iranians captured in Damascus this month by Syrian rebels were members of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, not the pilgrims described by the government in Tehran.
Bahrain’s Gulf Air to resume flights to Iraq, Iran
AFP: Bahrain’s national carrier Gulf Air will resume flights to Iraq and Iran on September 20 after a hiatus of 17 months, the tiny Gulf kingdom’s official BNA news agency said on Wednesday.
Standard Chartered seen paying $1 billion to end probes
Bloomberg: Standard Chartered Plc may have to pay as much as three times more than the $340 million it was fined by a New York regulator to settle all the probes by regulators into its transactions for Iranian clients.
Germany makes arrests over Iran nuclear embargo violations
Bloomber: German authorities arrested three men charged with violating sanctions against Iran by delivering parts bound for a nuclear reactor in the Islamic republic.
Blast at Syrian army HQ as U.S. accuses Iran on Syrian militia
Bloomberg: A bomb exploded close to Syria’s army headquarters, sending a column of black smoke over the capital Damascus, as the U.S. accused Iran of training a new militia to ease pressure on Bashar al-Assad’s government.
Iran says US quake aid was not in ‘good faith’
AFP: Iran said on Wednesday it rejected a US offer of aid for survivors of twin deadly earthquakes that struck villages in its northwest on the weekend because it was not made in “good faith.”
Pentagon: Iran building, training militia in Syria
AP: U.S. defense officials are accusing Iran of increased meddling in Syria, including efforts to bolster its flagging armed forces, who are weary after 18 months of war.
