Wall Street Journal: Iran vowed to increase its crude exports despite a cap agreed upon with the international community. Responding to a question from on whether Iran would have to reduce its oil exports, oil minister Bijan Zanganeh said, “We are trying to increase exports.”
Iranian oil minister vows to keep increasing crude exports
Iran’s brain drain is the West’s gain
Businessweek: Tens of thousands of Iranians have left the country of 77 million in recent years, largely for Europe and North America, in search of jobs and higher salaries. During the past two years, at least 40 percent of top-performing students left the country…
“Change” under Rouhani is a mirage
Fox News: The nuclear negotiation between Iran and the West is among the most important foreign policy issues facing the Obama Administration. In the U.S. government’s own assessment, Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism.
Washington’s strategic mistake in Iraq: Abandoning Iran’s exiled opposition
History News Network: Tehran has been outmaneuvering the West, particularly the United States, in regards to its long term strategic goals. Iran has been practicing this astute deception for years, particularly since 9/11 and the subsequent invasion of Iraq.
Can a nuclear Iran and war be stopped?
Washington Post: The world’s attention is focused on Russia, but a critical deadline in the nuclear talks with Iran is fast approaching. On July 20, time will be up — or will it? — for a final deal on Iran’s illicit nuclear program.
China may lose out if Iran oil sanctions lifted
AFP: As Western corporations headed for the exits when sanctions took effect and international distrust over Iran’s nuclear activities deepened, Summer Lee, an energetic thirty-something from Shanghai, was among those who filled the vacuum.
Rice reassures Israel on Iran nuclear ambitions
AFP: “The US delegation reaffirmed our commitment to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon,” said a White House statement released after talks in Jerusalem between Rice, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and senior officials from both sides.
Iran oil minister rejects export limit from nuclear deal
Bloomberg: Iran will export crude oil at the maximum level possible, regardless of restrictions imposed in an interim deal that offered the country some relief from sanctions over its nuclear program, Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said.
When freedom is the right to stay under wraps
New York Times: Cars honked frantically, their drivers in despair as separate columns of Iranian men and women in black chadors fist-pumped their way through the capital’s afternoon rush on Wednesday, shouting for the government to arrest all women who are improperly veiled.
Iranian news agency removes IRGC commander’s comments on Iranian forces in Syria
RadioFreeEurope: Iran’s hard-line Fars news agency has removed comments by a commander of the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), who was quoted as saying that the Islamic republic is militarily involved in Syria.
