Wall Street Journal: Iran is sending commanders from its elite Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and hundreds of foot soldiers to Syria, according to current and former members of the corps.
Iran said to send troops to bolster Syria
Lord Maginnis: Freedom or oppression – defining responsibility
Epolitix: Writing for PoliticsHome, Lord Maginnis calls on the US to remove the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran from the Foreign Terrorist Organisation list.
Report: Iran could open military site to visits
AP: Iran could allow representatives from nonaligned nations to visit a military site that the U.N. nuclear watchdog suspects has housed nuclear experiments.
Gaza PM Haniya won’t attend Tehran NAM summit
AFP: Gaza’s Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya will not attend an upcoming Non-Aligned Movement summit in Tehran, Taher al-Nunu, a spokesman for the Hamas government, said on Sunday.
Egypt defends Syria contact group that includes Iran
AFP: Egypt on Sunday defended its idea of forming a regional contact group on Syria which would include Iran, a staunch Damascus ally, insisting that Tehran could “be part of the solution” to the Syrian crisis.
Iran to show atomic sites at Tehran Non-Aligned summit
Bloomberg: Iran will allow officials from the 120-member Non-Aligned Movement to visit nuclear facilities during a summit in Tehran this month, the Foreign Ministry said.
Iran seeks Non-Aligned support in nuclear showdown
AFP: Non-Aligned Movement leaders should take a stand against Western sanctions at a Tehran summit later this week, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said Sunday, adding that many NAM members backed Iran’s nuclear programme.
UniCredit unit HVB probed over Iran sanctions
Reuters: U.S. authorities are investigating UniCredit’s (CRDI.MI) German unit HVB as part of a global crackdown on possible violations of sanctions on Iran that has already cost Standard Chartered (STAN.L) a hefty settlement.
The Cordesman criteria for defusing Iran powder keg
Boston Herald: What’s alarming is not just Iran’s increasing store of uranium or the growing sophistication of its rocketry. It’s also the increasingly menacing annihilationist threats emanating from Iran’s leaders.
Diplomats: Iran shrouds suspected nuclear site
AP: Iran has shrouded a building that the U.N. nuclear agency suspects was used for secret work on atomic weapons, meaning spy satellites can no longer monitor Tehran’s alleged efforts to clean up the site, diplomats told The Associated Press on Friday.
