AFP: Residents of Tehran were on Wednesday urged to leave the city, if possible, to escape a stagnant stew of choking air pollution that officials warned had reached “dangerous” levels.
Tehran residents urged to flee ‘dangerous’ pollution
Standard Chartered to pay $670m to settle Iran sanctions allegation
The Guardian: Standard Chartered warned on Thursday that it expects to pay a total of $670m (£415m) to US regulators to settle allegations that it breached sanctions with Iran.
4 charged in NY Iran-China weapons shipment scheme
AP: Four men have been charged with arranging shipments to China and Iran of weapons materials or a substance that can be used in uranium enrichment, officials announced Wednesday after indictments containing the charges were unsealed.
Eight dead in earthquake in eastern Iran
Reuters: An earthquake measuring 5.5 in magnitude struck eastern Iran on Wednesday, killing eight people and injuring 12 others as emergency teams scrambled to rescue others and treat the injured, Iranian media reported.
Drone in Iran appears to be U.S.-made, Pentagon says
Bloomberg: The drone Iran says it captured appears to be a U.S.-made ScanEagle, Pentagon spokesman George Little said, in a change from the initial U.S. rejection of the Iranian claim.
Iranian opposition seeks Syria-style recognition
AFP: Iran’s exiled opposition on Wednesday launched a campaign to have France and the European Union grant it the same recognition they have accorded to the Syrian coalition battling to overthrow Bashar al-Assad.
Iran quake kills five in rural area: emergency official
AFP: Five people were killed Wednesday and at least a dozen injured in a moderate earthquake that struck eastern Iran near the Afghan border, a provincial emergency official said.
How foreign firms tried to sell spy gear to Iran
Reuters: Documents seen by Reuters show that a partner of China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd offered to sell a Huawei-developed “Lawful Interception Solution” to MobinNet, Iran’s first nationwide wireless broadband provider, just as MobinNet was preparing to launch in 2010.
It is time for Western Governments to raise their voices against the Iranian regime’s human rights abuses
Daily Mail: The Iranian regime continues to be the focus of much discussion and debate, yet little attention is being paid to the internal dynamics of Iran; particularly its brutal crackdown on dissidents and its appalling human rights record.
White House: no evidence Iran drone claim is true
AFP: “We have no evidence that the Iranian claims you cite are true,” White House spokesman Jay Carney told a reporter, when asked about Tehran’s claims it had captured intact a US drone that penetrated its airspace over Gulf waters.
