AP: Iran said the victim of a deadly shooting Saturday was a university student — not a physicist involved in the disputed nuclear program as state media first reported.
Iran: Slain man was student, not nuclear scientist
Iran says remains OPEC second-largest producer
Reuters: Iran retains its position as the second-largest producer in OPEC despite the group’s report that Nigeria has now obtained the rank, the students news agency ISNA quoted the country’s OPEC governor Mohammad Ali Khatibi as saying on Saturday.
Iranian nuclear scientist shot dead
AFP: A nuclear scientist was shot dead on Saturday by unknown assailants on a motorcycle, the latest expert with links to Iran’s controversial atomic programme to be targeted, local media reported.
Six Iran troops killed in clashes with Kurd rebels
AFP: A senior officer of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards was among six soldiers killed in clashes with Kurdish rebels on the border with Iraq, Fars news agency reported on Friday.
AP Exclusive: Iran prez said pushing for nukes
AP: Iran’s president wants to shed the nation’s secrecy and forge ahead openly with developing nuclear weapons but is opposed by the clerical leadership, which is worried about international reaction to such a move, says an intelligence assessment shared with The Associated Press.
Iran denies shooting down US spy plane
AP: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard denied Friday that it shot down an unmanned U.S. spy plane over a uranium enrichment site, saying that its air defenses had only hit a test target.
Iran, India oil rumpus has wider implications: Clyde Russell
Reuters: The market appears quite relaxed about the escalating dispute between India and Iran over payment for oil supplies, but it has wider implications and may yet disrupt Asian crude markets.
Sanctions aren’t slowing Iran’s nuclear progress
Washington Post – Editorial: According to a recent story in The Post, the Obama administration is “quietly toasting” the success of international sanctions against Iran.
Opposition: Iran consolidates nuclear bomb effort
AP: An Iranian opposition group said Friday that Tehran’s leaders have consolidated several scattered nuclear research efforts in a single new defense agency geared to streamline weapons development.
America’s intelligence denial on Iran
Wall Street Journal: Mounting evidence over the last few years has convinced most experts that Iran has an active program to develop and construct nuclear weapons. Amazingly, however, these experts do not include the leaders of the U.S. intelligence community.
