Daily Telegraph: The US intervened in the £371 million sale of a Canadian-owned mine in Africa because of fears that uranium ore would be sold to Iran, the leaked cables show.
WikiLeaks: Sale of uranium mine blocked over Iran fears
WikiLeaks: Vanished FBI officer Robert Levinson ‘held by Iranian Revolutionary Guards’
Daily Telegraph: A former FBI officer who disappeared in mysterious circumstances in Iran four years ago has been held by the country’s Revolutionary Guard, the cables suggest.
WikiLeaks: Iran’s missile launchers towed by Peugeots
Daily Telegraph: Family cars made by Fiat, Peugeot and Renault are being used as missile platforms by the Iranian armed forces because of their difficulty obtaining proper military vehicles, leaked cables show.
Iran could make nuclear weapon in 1-2 years-IISS
Reuters: Iran could make a nuclear weapon in as little as one or two years if it wished, an influential think-tank said on Thursday — but industrial sabotage and the Stuxnet computer worm had probably slowed its progress.
WikiLeaks: British firms made millions from trading with Iranians
Daily Telegraph: British companies made millions of pounds selling or leasing items to Iranian companies that were the subject of international trade sanctions, US Embassy documents show.
Iran tech expo sends defiant message to West
AP: An Iranian supercomputer. New space rockets and satellites carrying the flag of the Islamic Republic. Biotech innovations that include artificial tendons.
WikiLeaks: Treasury ‘slow to act in blocking terrorist finance’
Daily Telegraph: America accused the Treasury of blocking attempts to close down “terrorist financiers” operating in Britain and being more concerned with protecting the interests of the City, leaked documents show.
Iran jails lawyer who has defended activists
AP: An opposition website says a prominent Iranian lawyer who has defended opposition activists has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.
India says no solution on Iran oil payment issue
AFP: India said Wednesday it is yet to resolve a crude oil payment problem with Iran after the South Asian nation’s central bank halted payments through a financial clearing house.
Italy’s 11-mos crude imports from Iran at 9.5 mln T
Reuters: Italy’s imports of crude oil from Iran, its second-biggest supplier, came in at 9.5 million tonnes in the first 11 months of 2010, despite political instability in Iran, Italy’s industry group Unione Petrolifera (UP) said.
