AFP: A former speaker of parliament has denounced reports that Iranian MPs are being offered government cash to vote against impeaching the interior minister, who lied about his education, the Mehr news agency said Friday. Ex-speaker denounces ‘cash-for-votes’ in Iran parliament
AFP: A former speaker of parliament has denounced reports that Iranian MPs are being offered government cash to vote against impeaching the interior minister, who lied about his education, the Mehr news agency said Friday. Iran strives to expand oil refineries
Wall Street Journal: As Western powers talk of targeting Iranian gasoline imports in fresh economic sanctions, the Islamic republic is scrambling to boost its refining capacity and tamp down domestic demand. Ahmadinejad slams US raid as ‘savage act’
AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday slammed a deadly US raid on a Syrian village as a "savage act", state news agency IRNA said. Fresh from Iraq success, Petraeus takes on Afghanistan, Iran
AFP: Crowned with success in Iraq, General David Petraeus, who takes command Friday of US military forces in the Middle East and Central Asia, inherits the next big challenge: devising a winning strategy in Afghanistan. Spy accused ‘caught red-handed’
BBC: An Army interpreter in Afghanistan was "caught red-handed" passing secrets to Iran, a court has been told.
Iran feels economic pain as oil prices fall
AP: Three weeks ago, a hard-line cleric close to Iran's president gloated publicly that the world financial crisis was God's punishment on the United States. The laughter, however, was short-lived. Iran building naval bases up to Strait of Hormuz
Reuters: Iran has begun building a line of naval bases along its southern coast and up to the Strait of Hormuz at the entrance to the strategic Gulf oil waterway, the Tehran Times quoted an Iranian commander as saying. Iraqis insist on changes to long-delayed security pact with U.S.
New York Times: The Iraqi government demanded changes on Wednesday to the long-delayed security pact with the United States. Intel says Iran plans secret nuclear experiments
AP: Iran has recently tested ways of recovering highly enriched uranium from waste reactor fuel in a covert bid to expand its nuclear program, according to an intelligence assessment made available to The Associated Press. Iran media: Lawmaker slaps Ahmadinejad confidant
AP: Iranian news media say a lawmaker has physically assaulted a confidant of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, alleging the official was trying to pay legislators not to vote for the impeachment of the interior minister. 