AP: Each day, the boulevard in this port city derisively dubbed “OPEC Street” is lined with dozens of vendors selling plastic jugs of black-market gasoline to desperate drivers who haggle over the price of a tankful. Gasoline black market thrives in Iran
AP: Each day, the boulevard in this port city derisively dubbed “OPEC Street” is lined with dozens of vendors selling plastic jugs of black-market gasoline to desperate drivers who haggle over the price of a tankful. Iran increases nuclear activity
Press Association: An Iranian official said that the Islamic republic has increased its production to more than 300 tons of a gas used for uranium enrichment, a semi-official news agency reported. At least seven killed in Beirut riots
AFP: At least seven people were killed on Sunday when protests over power cuts exploded into violence in the mainly Shiite southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut. Making up with the mullahs
New York Post – Editorial: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has made her most generous offer yet to the mad mullahs of Iran: Suspend your enrichment of uranium, halting a critical step in the development of nuclear weapons, and Washington is prepared to develop “a more normal relationship.” Iran summons Norways ambassador
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 27 Irans Foreign Ministry summoned on Sunday Norways top envoy to Tehran over Oslos recent meddling stance regarding the violations of human rights in Iran, state media reported. Iran summons Norways ambassador
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 27 Irans Foreign Ministry summoned on Sunday Norways top envoy to Tehran over Oslos recent meddling stance regarding the violations of human rights in Iran, state media reported. Iran resumes gas exports to Turkey
Reuters: Iran resumed exports of natural gas to Turkey on Sunday after an interval of around three weeks, a senior official at Botas, Turkey’s state pipeline company, told Reuters. Another Iran resolution
Washington Post – Editorial: After U.S. intelligence agencies reported last month that Iran had suspended a covert nuclear weapons program, it seemed possible that the principal impact would be to kill the Bush administration’s diplomatic campaign to stop Tehran’s accelerating — and only nominally civilian — work on uranium enrichment. Iran’s FM questions UN resolution
BBC: Manouchehr Mottaki has urged major world powers to exercise restraint over a new UN resolution aimed at tightening sanctions against Iran. Iran says it could attack US bases
AP: Iran’s top military commander said Saturday that his forces would retaliate against American military bases in the Persian Gulf if they are involved in any possible future attack on Iran. 