AFP: The United States said Tuesday it had broken up a “chilling” plot planned high up in the Iranian government to assassinate the Saudi envoy to Washington and vowed to hold Tehran to account.
US says busts Iran plot to murder Saudi ambassador
IATA halts Iran Air from using payment service
AFP: Iran’s national airline, Iran Air, Monday blasted the International Air Transport Association for suspending its ticket payment transactions due to US-imposed sanctions.
Iran actress sentenced to one year in jail: report
AFP: Actress Marzieh Vafamehr has been sentenced to a year in jail and 90 lashes for her role in a film about the limits imposed on artists in the Islamic republic, an Iranian opposition website reported Sunday.
Iran calls Wall Street protests ‘American Spring’
AP: An Iranian military commander said Sunday that the protests spreading from New York’s Wall Street to other U.S. cities are the beginning of an “American Spring,” likening them to the uprisings that toppled Arab autocrats in the Middle East.
EU expands sanctions against Iran
AP: The European Union has expanded sanctions against Iran because of continued human rights abuses.
Iran says first home-built missile destroyer sent to Aden Gulf
Bloomberg: Iran’s first domestically produced guided-missile destroyer has been sent to the Gulf of Aden to provide security to vessels in the area, a top Iranian navy commander said.
OPEC likely to keep oil output unchanged: Iran
AFP: OPEC is likely to keep its oil production quotas unchanged at its next meeting in December, Iran’s representative to the cartel said, according to the oil ministry website.
Iran says radar can detect small unmanned drones
AP: A senior military commander says Iran’s air defense units have been equipped with advanced radars capable of detecting unmanned drones.
Iran confirms Gazprom not to work on Azar oilfield
Reuters: Iran confirmed on Sunday that Gazprom would not be involved in the development of a major on-shore oil field, accusing the Russian state energy giant of dragging its feet over the project, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
Iraq, siding with Iran, sends essential aid to Syria’s Assad
Washington Post: More than six months after the start of the Syrian uprising, Iraq is offering key moral and financial support to the country’s embattled president, undermining a central U.S. policy objective and raising fresh concerns that Iraq is drifting further into the orbit of an American arch rival — Iran.
