Reuters: Yemen’s security chief has told Iran to stop training and funding Shi’ite Muslim rebels who, along with al Qaeda-backed Islamists and southern separatists, are staging one of three insurgencies threatening to pull the chaotic country apart.
Yemen security chief tells Iran to stop backing rebels
Iran launches own ‘YouTube’ website
AFP: Iran has launched its own video-sharing website to compete against Google’s popular YouTube whose content is deemed inappropriate by the Islamic regime, the state television reported on Sunday.
Sen. McCain: US committed to naval hub in Bahrain
AP: McCain, the ranking member of the Senate Armed Forces Committee, says the U.S. has “too much invested” in Bahrain to consider shifting the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet to another country. The 5th Fleet is the Pentagon’s main counterweight to Iran’s expanding military presence in the Gulf.
Iran’s Quds force may deploy Syria’s Chemical weapons
Ya Libnan: Mamlouk, Qudsiya and Zaitoun have proposed that special units of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, rather than the Syrian Army, be asked to carry out security leaders’ orders to use chemical weapons, the source said.
Iranian warships’ visit risks straining Sudan-Gulf ties
Reuters: A second visit by Iranian warships to Sudan in little over a month risks widening divisions inside the African country’s government and upsetting its Gulf Arab donors.
Iran police confiscate over 11 tons of narcotics
AP: Iran’s state TV says the country’s border police have confiscated over 11 tons of narcotics after fierce clashes with drug traffickers in southeastern Iran, the biggest single consignment ever seized in Iran’s war against drugs.
Iran warships dock in Sudan
AFP: Two Iranian warships docked in Port Sudan on Saturday, a witness said, marking the second port call by the Iranian navy in Sudan in five weeks.
Iran condemns US nuclear test
AFP: Iran condemned arch foe the United States on Saturday for conducting a limited nuclear test, saying it showed Washington’s “inattention to full disarmament,” the state television website reported.
HSBC, Standard Chartered close to resolving Iran claims
Bloomberg: HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA) and Standard Chartered Plc (STAN) may settle U.S. charges involving money-laundering violations and dollar-clearing transactions on behalf of Iranian clients as soon as next week, two people familiar with the negotiations said.
Iran time bomb no longer just a hypothetical
Sydney Morning Herald: Robertson, a QC and probably the world’s best-known human rights lawyer, is now 66. He has lived most of his adult life in London, but was born in Australia. He says Iran’s nuclear ambitions are by far the biggest threat to world security because they will trigger a new arms race.
