Washington Post: An Iranian police unit that was formed this year to counter alleged Internet crimes is playing a key role in an escalating online conflict between the United States and the Islamic Republic.
Iran cyber police cite U.S. threat
Iran downplays report India paying for oil via Russia
Reuters: An Iranian Oil Ministry source played down on Saturday a report that Indian oil buyers had started paying for their crude through a bank in Russia as a new way to get around sanctions-related difficulties in making international bank transfers.
Blast kills one at Iran oil rig, fire hits refinery
AFP: An explosion at a state-run oil field in southern Iran killed a worker and injured three others on Friday, while a refinery in central Iran was hit by a fire, the Mehr news agency reported.
Iranian actress Marzieh Vafamehr ‘released’
BBC: An Iranian actress who was sentenced to a year in prison and 90 lashes has been released after three months in custody, according to Amnesty International.
Some Chinese missile sales to Iran may escape U.S. sanctions law
Bloomberg: U.S. sanctions don’t clearly prohibit China from selling to Iran short-range cruise missiles that might threaten Persian Gulf oil supplies, a congressionally created commission concludes in a draft report.
U.S. criticizes Iran leaders as “hypocritical”
Reuters: The United States on Thursday accused Iran’s leaders of hypocrisy and said it has taken actions that suggest it might not meet its international obligations.
NY bill seeks ban on companies investing in Iran
Reuters: Companies and individuals that invest in Iran’s energy sector would be barred from doing business with New York state and its counties, cities and towns under a bill proposed by the state Assembly speaker.
Chinese tech giant aids Iran
Wall Street Journal: When Western companies pulled back from Iran after the government’s bloody crackdown on its citizens two years ago, a Chinese telecom giant filled the vacuum.
Panetta warns Iran not to meddle in Iraq
AFP: US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Wednesday warned Iran that it should not meddle in Iraq when American forces leave the country at the end of this year.
British MPs demand U.N. protection at Camp Ashraf
UPI: Cross-party Members of Parliament and Peers as well as prominent jurists at a parliamentary meeting Tuesday in London called on the United Kingdom, European Union and the United States to urgently propose a draft text to the U.N. Security Council approve the stationing of blue-helmet U.N. security forces at Camp Ashraf to prevent another major massacre when the U.S. forces leave Iraq at the end of the year.
