AFP: Iran on Wednesday denied a new request from Swiss diplomats to meet with a US citizen of Iranian descent now reported to be on trial on charges of spying for the CIA, the US State Department said.
US says Iran again denies access to alleged US spy
Iran ‘sentences opposition figure to jail’
AFP: Iran has sentenced Ebrahim Yazdi, the head of a banned opposition party and a former foreign minister, to eight years in prison for “attempting to act against national security,” his lawyer said Wednesday.
Rocket hits Iran dissident camp in Iraq: officials
AFP: Multiple rockets over the past 24 hours hit a camp in Iraq housing Iranian exiles, officials and the group based there said on Wednesday, after Iraq and the UN signed a pact to resettle residents.
Iranian exiles in Iraq ready to start relocation
Fox News: The leader of an Iranian dissident group has agreed to start relocating refugees who for years have been living in precarious conditions in an Iraqi camp.
Iran saber-rattling spooks oil market
AFP: Warnings from Iran that it will try to close the vital Strait of Hormuz in response to further Western sanctions sent oil prices markedly higher on Tuesday.
Saudi would replace Iran crude if EU embargoes-sources
Reuters: Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia and other Gulf OPEC states are ready to replace Iranian oil if further sanctions halt Iranian crude exports to Europe, industry sources said on Tuesday.
U.S. citizen goes on trial in Iran on spying charges
Reuters: An American man of Iranian descent, accused by Iran of spying for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, went on trial in Tehran on Tuesday, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
Iran inks oil products deal with Afghanistan
Reuters: Iran signed an agreement with Afghanistan on Monday to export one million tons per year of gasoil, gasoline and jet fuel to the neighbouring country starting next year, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Iran ‘to block Hormuz strait’ if sanctions applied
AFP: No oil will be permitted to pass through the key oil transit Strait of Hormuz if the West applies sanctions on Iran’s oil exports, Iranian Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi warned on Tuesday.
US urges Iran to free alleged spy
AFP: The United States renewed calls for Iran to release “without delay” a US citizen of Iranian descent who reportedly went on trial Tuesday on charges of spying for the CIA.
