AFP: Iran has cancelled a $2 billion contract with China to build a hydro-electric dam and handed the project over to its Revolutionary Guards, media reported on Tuesday.
Iran ‘cancels’ $2 bn dam contract with China
Iran urges West to drop ‘illogical’ uranium demand
AP: Tehran says the West should withdraw its “illogical” demand that Iran halt production of uranium enriched to 20 percent.
Iran parliament re-elects conservative as speaker
AP: Iran’s newly-elected parliament has voted to reinstate a conservative critic of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as temporary speaker.
Iran rejects link to alleged coup plots in Bahrain
AP: Iran’s Foreign Ministry has rejected the country’s alleged role in plotting to topple the regime in Bahrain.
New evidence of Iran assassination plots: report
AFP: Investigators working in four countries have amassed new evidence linking attempts to assassinate officials and businessmen to either Iran-backed Hezbollah or Iran-based operatives, The Washington Post reported Monday.
Iran to continue uranium enrichment
UPI: After negotiations with world powers made no progress, a top Iranian official said there is “no reason” to end the country’s uranium enrichment program.
Iran’s Murder Machine
Iran Focus: By the time we wake up from a regular night’s sleep, three Iranians have been executed. That sobering statistic is based on the tally that is allowed to be publically disseminated by Iran’s state-run media.
Iran to launch new nuclear plant project: state TV
AFP: Iran is to build a new nuclear power plant, alongside its sole existing one in the southern city of Bushehr, by early 2014, state television reported on Sunday, quoting the head of the country’s Atomic Energy Organisation.
Iran not ready for visit to suspect nuclear site
Reuters: The U.N. nuclear watchdog has not yet given good enough reasons to visit an Iranian site where it suspects there may have been experiments for developing nuclear weapons, Iranian media said.
‘No reason’ to cede on 20% enriched uranium: Iran
AFP: Tehran has “no reason” to suspend its enrichment of uranium to 20 percent, one of the key demands of world powers engaging Iran in talks, the head of its Atomic Energy Organisation said.
