News Blaze: A group of cross-Party MPs on Tuesday urged the British government to cut ties with the Iranian government and support the democratic opposition to bring about regime change.
MPs urge Britain to cut ties with Iran and support regime change
Hagel: Window closing on Iran and diplomacy
AP: Chuck Hagel says the “window is closing” on Iran and the possibility of diplomacy if it continues to ignore international demands to end pursuit of a nuclear weapon.
Iran Zoroastrians celebrate ancient feast of fire
AP: Followers of Iran’s minority Zoroastrian religion gathered after sunset to mark Sadeh — an ancient mid-winter feast dating to Iran’s pre-Islamic past that is also drawing new interest from Muslims.
Report: Iran, Hezbollah terror threat rising
AP: Iran’s elite Quds Force and Hezbollah militants are learning from a series of botched terror attacks over the past two years and pose a growing threat to the U.S. and other Western targets as well as Israel, a prominent counterterrorism expert says.
Iranian $40-mn platform unit sinks in Gulf
AFP: A $40 million engineering structure belonging to Iran’s South Pars gas field to be used in offshore platforms sank into the Gulf as it was being installed, media reports said on Wednesday.
Families of servicemen killed in attack to get Iran money
Reuters: The families of 17 U.S. servicemen killed in a 1996 bombing in Saudi Arabia linked to Iran can collect damages from Iran-funded accounts at the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.
Fear, threats and bad food: life aboard a sanctions-hit Iranian ship
Reuters: The eight Indian crew members on board the MV Amina had no inkling they were trapped on the frontline of the West’s economic war against Iran.
Iran reset: Challenges for next four years
The Hill: During WWII, Winston Churchill famously opined that, “You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing—after they’ve tried everything else!” Today, those very words aptly describe U.S. policy towards Iran.
Hell on Earth: Inside Iran’s brutal Evin prison
Fox News: It is known as Evin University, but it’s no school — it is one of the world’s most brutal and infamous prisons. And barring intervention by Iran’s religious leaders, it could be the home of American citizen and Christian Pastor Saeed Abedini for the next eight years.
FCO condemns co-ordinated arrest of journalists in Iran
FCO: Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt condemns multiple arrests of journalists in Iran for co-operation with western media. Iranian security forces arrested more than a dozen journalists on 26, 27 and 28 January.
