AFP: Iran expects regional countries to send weapons to the Palestinians to help them fight Israel, parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani said on Sunday.
Iran expects region to arm Palestinians against Israel
Iran holds Syria reconciliation conference
AP: Iran held Sunday a conference to reconcile Syria’s government with opposition factions and end the country’s civil war, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Iran denies supplying Fajr 5 rockets to Gaza
AFP: A senior Iranian official has denied his country supplied the Fajr 5 missiles which Palestinian militants have been firing at Tel Aviv, Iran’s Al-Alam television reported on Saturday.
Illegal exports to Iran on the rise, say U.S. officials
Los Angeles Times: Asian companies and middlemen are helping Tehran illicitly obtain American technology, investigators say, in what they describe as a worrisome trend.
U.S. denies visas to Iran officials for U.N. meeting: report
Reuters: The United States has denied visas to Iranian officials hoping to attend a U.N. meeting in New York, Iran’s state news agency reported on Saturday.
Iran delays planned start-up of Arak nuclear reactor
Reuters: Iran has postponed until 2014 the planned start-up of a research reactor which Western experts say could potentially offer the Islamic Republic a second route to produce material for a nuclear bomb, a U.N. report showed.
Iran says Muslim world must hit back at Israel for Gaza
AFP: Islamic countries must close ranks and respond to Israel’s deadly attacks on the Gaza Strip, Iran’s Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi said on Saturday.
Iran reaches milestone at key nuclear plant
AFP: Iran is on the cusp of being able to triple output of nuclear material that, if further treated, could be used in the core of a bomb, a new UN atomic agency report showed.
U.S. ambivalence frustrates Iran
UPI: The U.S. government hasn’t been consistent with its policy regarding the possibility of engagement with the Islamic republic, an Iranian lawmaker said.
Iran’s first nuclear plant may have suffered new setback
Reuters: Iran unloaded nuclear fuel from its first atomic power plant last month, a United Nations report said on Friday, a few months after the Russian builder said the long-postponed reactor was operating at full capacity.
