AFP: Iran and Turkey opened a third border crossing Saturday, with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu proclaiming the two neighbours “friends for eternity,” Anatolia news agency reported.
Turkey and Iran open new border crossing
Clinton says Iran trying to derail Mideast revolts
AP: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday accused Iran of trying to derail democratic revolutions around the Mideast and warned Arab nations not to permit intolerance against women and religious minorities.
Massacre proves the dangers of Iran’s influence in Iraq
Boston Globe – Editorial: As the United States prepares to withdraw most, if not all, of its troops from Iraq by year’s end, Iran’s pervasive influence in that country becomes an ever more worrisome concern.
One wounded in Iran Kurdistan bomb blasts: IRNA
AFP: One person was wounded as the result of two bomb blasts in the western city of Sanandaj in the Iranian Kurdistan province, the official IRNA news agency reported Saturday, quoting a provincial official.
Chinese firms dominate Iran oil exposition
AFP: Chinese companies, widely present in Iran thanks to the vaccum created by the departure of Western firms, dominated the Iranian oil, gas and petrochmemical exhibition that began Friday, an AFP reporter said.
Saudi cleric attacks Iranian “hypocrisy and deception”
Reuters: Saudi Arabia’s top cleric accused Iran of interfering in the internal affairs of the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and attacked its “hypocrisy and deception”, a Saudi newspaper said on Friday.
Iran sees oil demand increasing post-Japan tsunami
Reuters: Iran’s OPEC governor said on Friday he saw demand for oil rising as Japan recovers from its March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
Iranian winter could chill the Arab Spring
Wall Street Journal: From nukes to terrorist proxies, Tehran’s power grows—and Washington dithers.
Brand Ahmadinejad rights abuser: US senators
AFP: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should formally brand Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and 25 other current and former Iranian officials as human rights abusers, senators urged Friday.
Iran orders Hamas to block Palestinian reconciliation: Abbas
AFP: Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said Friday that Iran has ordered the Islamist movement Hamas not to reconcile with its long-time foe and his secular party, Fatah.
