AP: Iranian experts are in the final stages of recovering data from the U.S. surveillance drone captured by the country’s armed forces, state TV reported Monday.
Iran says it’s recovering data from US drone
U.S.-listed firms told to reveal Syria, Iran links: FT
Reuters: At least a dozen U.S.-listed companies have been told by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to disclose business activity in and with Syria, Iran and others deemed “state sponsors” of terror by the state department, the Financial Times said on Sunday.
UN-Iraq calls on Europe to take Iran camp members
AFP: European states should agree to accept members of an exiled Iranian group whose base in Iraq is being threatened with closure at year-end, the United Nations’s special envoy to Baghdad said on Monday.
Iran says it will not return US drone
AP: Iran will not return a U.S. surveillance drone captured by its armed forces, a senior commander of the country’s elite Revolutionary Guard said Sunday.
Iran says EU “definitely” will not impose oil sanctions
Reuters: Iran said on Sunday the European Union “definitely” will not impose sanctions on the country’s oil exports as the measure will harm the global crude market, the Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi said.
Iran’s boasts over US drone reveal inconsistencies
AFP: Iran’s boast it downed a highly sophisticated US drone has handed the Islamic republic a propaganda coup while revealing numerous inconsistencies in both Iranian and US accounts of the incident.
Exiled Iranians want Obama to help keep camp open
AP: An exiled Iranian opposition group has issued a letter signed by ranking former U.S. military officials asking President Barack Obama to pressure Iraq to cancel the Dec. 31 deadline to close a camp of dissidents or risk a massacre.
Iran sees crude market “relatively balanced”
Reuters: Iran’s OPEC governor said on Saturday the oil market was “relatively balanced”, indicating the country will not push for any major shift in an OPEC ministerial meeting next week.
Iran summons Afghan diplomat over US drone flight
AP: Iran has summoned the Afghan ambassador to protest the violation of its airspace by a U.S. surveillance drone that took off from neighboring Afghanistan.
Huawei to scale back business in Iran
Wall Street Journal: Chinese telecommunications- equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co. said it will scale back its business in Iran, where the company provides services to government-controlled telecom operators, following reports that Iranian police were using mobile-network technology to track down and arrest dissidents.
