AP: Iran’s president says there will be no room for Israel in the region after the formation of a Palestinian state.
Iran’s Ahmadinejad: No place for Israel in region
Protesters hope to end terrorist label for Iranian group
McClatchy Newspapers: Thousands of supporters of Iran’s leading opposition group rallied outside the State Department on Friday, calling on the agency to take the group off its list of terrorist organizations.
Russia ‘surprised’ by Iran’s legal complaint over S-300
AFP: Russia said Thursday it was surprised by Iran’s move to lodge a legal complaint against Moscow over the cancellation of an S-300 missile contract, insisting that sanctions had tied its hands.
Release Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal
New York Times – Editorial: The American hikers Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal have spent 755 days in Iran’s brutal Evin prison. They never should have been arrested, much less held for so long.
Ahmadinejad calls for Syrian dialogue
AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the main ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, called Wednesday for dialogue between Damascus and the opposition to end months of violence.
Europe accuses Iranian force of aiding Syrian crackdown
New York Times: The European Union announced on Wednesday that it was leveling sanctions against Iran’s Al Quds military force, saying it had given technical and material support to President Bashar al-Assad of Syria in his efforts to crush the five-month-old uprising against his rule.
JPMorgan fined for contravening Iran, Cuba sanctions
AFP: JPMorgan Chase Bank has been fined $88.3 million for contravening US sanctions against regimes in Iran, Cuba and Sudan, and the former Liberian government, the US Treasury Department announced Thursday.
Iran denies it resumed petrol import
AFP: A top Iranian lawmaker denied Wednesday he had said the oil-rich country had decided to resume petrol imports, after the oil minister said Iran was “self-sufficient.”
Iran expects to find four new gas fields, Mehr reports
Bloomberg: Iran expects to find four new gas fields before the end of March 2012 following exploration now being carried out, the state-run Mehr news agency said, citing National Iranian Oil Co.’s director for exploration, Mahmoud Mohaddes.
North Korea supplied nuclear software to Iran: German report
Reuters: North Korea has intensified its cooperation with Iran this year and supplied it with a computer program that could help the Islamic Republic build nuclear weapons, a German newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing western intelligence sources.
