AP: Iran said Wednesday that it has begun installing a new generation of centrifuges at its main uranium enrichment facility, a move that will allow it to vastly increase its pace of uranium enrichment in defiance of U.N. calls to halt such activities.
Iran: Advanced enrichment centrifuges installed
Iran suggests progress, but no deal, in U.N. atom talks
Reuters: Iran indicated that some progress was made in talks with the U.N. nuclear watchdog on Wednesday, but that the two sides again failed to finalize an elusive framework deal over the Islamic state’s disputed atomic activity.
Iran dissidents say Khamenei ordered attack on Iraq camp
AFP: The Iranian dissident group MEK on Wednesday accused Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of ordering a deadly attack on its camp in Iraq and said the Iraqi government facilitated the assault.
Sanctions cost Iran $40 bn in 2012, says IEA
AFP: Sanctions by the West on Iran succeeded in slashing Iran’s oil export revenue by $40 billion in 2012, the International Energy Agency said on Wednesday, as production last month hit a three-decade low point.
Netanyahu ally: Diplomacy won’t work with Iran
AP: A powerful partner of Israel’s prime minister says sanctions and negotiations will not stop Iran from pursuing its disputed nuclear program.
IAEA delegation arrives in Iran for new talks
AFP: A delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) arrived early Wednesday in Tehran for new talks on Iran’s disputed nuclear programme, the news agency Isna reported.
Iran’s global business is Murder Inc.
Wall Street Journal: Bombings in capital cities, kidnappings, trade in drugs and guns—Iranian exports, all. Now Tehran wants nukes. Mysteriously marked ammunition kills countless Africans in civil wars. Conspirators plot to blow up a crowded cafe and an embassy in Washington, D.C.
Death toll in Iran exile camp attack rises to seven
AFP: The death toll from a weekend mortar and rocket attack on an Iranian exiles’ camp in Iraq rose Tuesday to seven, the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran, or the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK) said.
U.S. imposes sanctions on Venezuela’s Cavim Arms Company
Bloomberg: The U.S. imposed sanctions on a state-owned Venezuelan weapons company after it traded with Iran, North Korea or Syria, the State Department said in a statement posted on its website.
Iran denies officials to be quizzed over Argentina bomb
Reuters: Iran denied on Tuesday it had agreed to allow international investigators to question Tehran officials over the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires as part of a plan to form a truth commission.
