Fox News: The Obama administration’s economic policy has suffered some recent highly publicized disasters. But the setbacks of “Obamanomics” should not obscure the administration’s equally critical foreign policy missteps toward Iran and Iraq that threaten to downgrade American credibility in yet another arena.
American credibility at risk on foreign policy front, too
An unholy alliance
Iran Focus – Editorial: The brutal state-imposed bloodbath in Syria deserves uncompromising reproach. Popular protests calling for President Bashar al-Assad’s regime to relinquish power have continued despite state cruelty.
Ahmadinejad says Iran nuclear plant to start on time, RT reports
Bloomberg: Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant will start on time and is not being delayed because of disagreements with Russia, RT television reported, citing an interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Iran’s “nuclear partner” Russia seeks to revive global talks
Reuters: Russia will look to revive nuclear talks between Iran and the world’s biggest economic and military powers this week, hoping its special relationship with Tehran can help jolt back to life negotiations that some analysts consider “dead in the water”.
Iran sees return to normal oil exports to India in August -Fars
Reuters: Iran hopes oil deliveries to India will return to a normal level now a long-running payment problem has been resolved, the head of international affairs at the National Iranian Oil Co. said in an interview published on Sunday.
Iran plans protest at British embassy in Tehran over riots
Sacramento Bee: Iran plans a state-organized protest targeting Britain over what Tehran calls “savage aggression” used by police on demonstrators in the recent street riots across England, state media reported Saturday.
Iran reiterates threat to take gas project off China
Reuters: Iran reiterated to China on Saturday it could take back control of a gas field being developed by its national oil company unless it speeds up investment, one week after the new Iranian oil minister said no foreign contractors were needed.
Iraqi leader backs Syria, with a nudge from Iran
New York Times: As leaders in the Arab world and other countries condemn President Bashar al-Assad’s violent crackdown on demonstrators in Syria, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq has struck a far friendlier tone, urging the protesters not to “sabotage” the state and hosting an official Syrian delegation.
HPCL says paying Iran, expects 2 oil cargoes in Sept
Reuters: Indian refiner HPCL said it hopes crude deliveries from Iran will resume in September after a gap of a month, joining other state-run refiners expecting supplies after they started clearing debts racked up in a payments impasse.
Paul and Santorum clash over US-Iran relationship
AP: Congressman Ron Paul says rival White House hopeful Rick Santorum has his history wrong on Iran, arguing that the United States has been at war with Iran since it helped orchestrate regime change in the 1950s.
