Today’s Zaman: Ali Fuat Yılmazer, former chief of the Istanbul Police Department’s intelligence unit, has claimed that Iran-linked notorious terrorist organization Tawhid-Salam has penetrated deep into the Turkish government.
Iran-backed terrorist cell infiltrated Turkish gov’t at highest level: leaks
Iran Freedom Committee: UN Security Council must consider Iran’s rights violations
PoliticsHome: More than 110 members of both Houses of Parliament including former Ministers and religious leaders supported a statement about the Iranian women’s struggle for freedom and gender equality.
Museum items can’t be seized to pay Iran judgment
AP: Survivors of a 1997 terrorist bombing blamed partly on Iran can’t seize thousands of relics from U.S. museums to pay a $412 million judgment against the Iranian government, a federal judge in Chicago ruled Friday.
Obama seeks to reassure Saudi Arabia over Iran, Syria
Reuters: President Barack Obama sought to reassure Saudi King Abdullah that he would support moderate Syrian rebels and reject a bad nuclear deal with Iran, during a visit designed to allay the kingdom’s concerns that its decades-old U.S. alliance had frayed.
Iran launches floating gas export terminal
UPI: Iran in January exported 878,631 tons of gas condensate. Pirouz Mousavi, managing director of the Iranian Oil Terminals Co., said the facility could help Iran get more oil and gas from a southern economic trade zone.
Report: Global executions up 15 percent in 2013
AP: According to Amnesty International the number of officially acknowledged executions in Iran in 2013 was at least 369, but the rights group said “credible sources” reported 335 more. The group said Iraq executed at least 169 people.
Mistrust overshadows Obama’s Saudi trip
AFP: King Abdullah meets President Barack Obama Friday as mistrust fuelled by differences over Iran and Syria overshadows a decades-long Saudi-US alliance.
As Iran sanctions ease, western firms seek a way in
Wall Street Journal: Temporary sanctions relief hasn’t yet translated into an economic turnaround in Iran. But at the Melal Hotel, business hasn’t been this good in years.
Public rifts at Arab summit likely to satisfy Iran and Syria
Reuters: Arab leaders at odds over supporting Islamists in upheavals across the Middle East have proved in no mood to reconcile at a summit this week, an outcome likely to satisfy Syria and Iran.
Iran fuel price hikes will be big test for Rouhani
Reuters: Looming fuel price rises in Iran will be the first major test of President Hassan Rouhani’s ability to retain public support in the face of attacks from his hardline rivals.
