AFP: Iran has arrested 10 Indians after their vessels strayed into its territorial waters, a provincial official told the Fars news agency on Tuesday.
Iran arrests 10 Indian fishermen: report
Khamenei tells Iranians: criticizing election will help enemies
Reuters: Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned the Iranian public on Tuesday against helping Tehran’s enemies by criticizing the forthcoming presidential election.
Briton to be sentenced in weapons-to-Iran plot
AP: A British businessman who pleaded guilty to trying to buy missile parts and resell them to Iran is expected to learn his punishment. Christopher Tappin is scheduled to appear before U.S. District Judge David Briones in El Paso, Texas, on Wednesday.
Iran, Syria, not settlements, threaten world: Israel PM
AFP: Iran’s nuclear ambitions and Syria’s chemical weapons are the real threats facing the world, not Israeli settlement building, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday.
Iran says it’s hopeful on Hagel nomination
AP: Iran’s Foreign Ministry says it is hopeful the appointment of former Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel to lead the Pentagon would improve relations between Tehran and the U.S.
Labour activist wins temporary prison leave
Iran Focus: Reza Shahabi, a member of the Board of Directors Tehran’s Bus Drivers Syndicate, who had gone on a hunger strike 23 days ago to protest against prison officials’ refusal to allow him with proper medical care (Iran Focus, 2 Jan.), won a five-day leave from prison.
New Iran sanctions target industry in bid for deal curbing nuclear program
Washington Post: New U.S. sanctions have broadened the front in the West’s escalating economic conflict with Iran, targeting large swaths of the country’s industrial infrastructure even as Iranian leaders are indicating a willingness to resume negotiations on the country’s nuclear program.
Ahmadinejad aide replaced as Iran news agency boss
AFP: A top aide to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who has been jailed since September was replaced on Monday as the head of Iran’s state Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), it and other media reported.
Israel presses U.S. for military threat against Iran
Bloomberg: Israel is again turning up the pressure on the Obama administration to issue an ultimatum threatening military action if Iran refuses to abandon its suspected pursuit of an atomic weapons capability.
Iran oil exports ‘plunge 40% in nine months’
AFP: Iran’s oil exports have been slashed 40 percent in the past nine months because of tough Western sanctions, Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi was quoted as saying on Monday, in a reversal of his previous denials of any decline at all.
