AFP: The Revolutionary Guards will carry on operations against Kurdish rebels in northwest Iran along the Iraqi border despite strains with Iraq, a commander of the elite force said on Wednesday.
Iran Guards to keep up raids on Iraq-based Kurd rebels
Iran says to switch on Bushehr plant soon
Reuters: Iran’s foreign minister said on Wednesday his country’s Russian-built nuclear power plant at Bushehr would be switched on soon after years of delays, but gave no date.
Chavez, Ahmadinejad blast ‘aggression’ in Libya, Syria
AFP: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have denounced the West’s “imperialist aggression” in Libya and Syria, the foreign ministry in Caracas said Tuesday.
US general: Iran-backed groups biggest Iraq threat
AP: Iranian-backed militias present the most dangerous security threat for Iraq, outpacing al-Qaida-linked terrorists who have been blamed for the spike in violence there, a senior U.S. military officer said Tuesday.
Belarus company withdraws from Iran oil field -agency
Reuters: The Belarusian national oil company Belarusneft is pulling out of developing Iran’s Jofeir oilfield over differences with the state National Iranian Oil Co.(NIOC), the semi-official Mehr news agency reported on Tuesday.
Iran says Russian plan could revive nuclear talks
Reuters: Iran welcomed on Tuesday a Russian attempt to revive talks with six world powers that are concerned about the its uranium enrichment programme, a potential pathway to nuclear weapons, but was vague about what the agenda should be.
Deutsche Börse unit sued over alleged Iran funds
Wall Street Journal: A group of nearly 1,000 American victims of international terrorism is suing Clearstream Banking SA of Luxembourg, a unit of Germany’s Deutsche Börse AG, for allegedly assisting Iran in fraudulently securing the release of $250 million in frozen assets and in moving it out of the U.S. financial system, according to legal documents recently unsealed by a federal court in New York.
US jails Iranian over missile component plot
AFP: A US judge sentenced an Iranian national Monday to more than four years in prison for plotting to export radio equipment and components for anti-tank missiles from the United States to Iran.
Iran to ‘soon’ issue verdict on US hikers: prosecutor
AFP: Iran’s prosecutor general said on Monday that the verdict in the case of three Americans arrested two years ago on espionage charges would be issued “soon,” Mehr news agency reported.
Iran says India paid two thirds of oil debt
Reuters: Iran has received two thirds of the oil debts from Indian buyers that had accumulated this year due to a sanctions-related payments problem, Central Bank Governor Mahmoud Bahmani told the students’ news agency ISNA on Monday.
