Reuters: Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemicals Ltd will sell an extra 210,000 tonnes of diesel by December to Iran, which is boosting imports ahead of heavy refinery maintenance works this year, its managing director said on Tuesday. MRPL almost doubles diesel exports to Iran-MD
Reuters: Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemicals Ltd will sell an extra 210,000 tonnes of diesel by December to Iran, which is boosting imports ahead of heavy refinery maintenance works this year, its managing director said on Tuesday. Iran offers to launch satellites
New York Times: A day after Iran declared that it had test fired a new rocket capable of launching a satellite, the country said Monday that it was prepared to help other Muslim countries send up satellites. But by then, Pentagon and military officials in Washington were concluding that the Iranian missile launching had been a failure. Iran: Four young people face execution
AKI: Four young people, who were minors at the time their alleged crimes were committed, are expected to be hanged in the next few days. U.S. says expects militia leaders to return to Iraq
Reuters: A top U.S. military commander said on Monday he expected Shi'ite militia leaders who fled to Iran for training and equipment to return to Iraq soon to try to foment instability. Iran, IAEA hold more nuclear talks
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 19 – A senior official from the United Nations nuclear watchdog is holding talks with Iranian officials in Tehran.
Iran, IAEA hold more nuclear talks
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 19 – A senior official from the United Nations nuclear watchdog is holding talks with Iranian officials in Tehran.
Top Iran cleric chides Ahmadinejad aide over Israeli remarks
AFP: A top Iranian cleric has chastised a leading aide to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over his controversial remarks that Iranians are "friends with Israelis," the press reported on Tuesday. Pentagon doubts Iranian rocket test succeeded
CNN: The Pentagon does not believe an Iranian rocket test over the weekend was successful, despite reports in the official Iranian media saying the Islamic Republic had launched its first vehicle capable of placing a satellite in orbit. Iran proposes guarantees to attract German firms
AFP: Iran is ready to offer investment guarantees to German companies, an official said Monday, as authorities in Berlin try to curb their plans to work in the controversial Middle Eastern country. Analysis: Saudis ‘all or nothing’ on Iran
Middle East Times: As Iran's close neighbor, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia feels the threat of a nuclear-powered Iran probably as much as the Islamic Republic's archenemy, Israel. Indeed, the very thought of Iran — a Shiite state under the control of the country's militant clergy — is ample reason to worry the bastion of Sunni orthodoxy as much as it worries the Jewish state, if perhaps not more so.
