CNN: About 400 members of an exiled Iranian opposition group who are the first to leave a long-term camp in Iraq under a U.N. plan criticized their treatment and the conditions at the new temporary site Saturday.
First exiles to leave Iraq’s Camp Ashraf slam new site
32 stand trial over Iran’s biggest bank fraud
AP: A Tehran court began hearing the trial of 32 defendants Saturday in a $2.6 billion bank fraud described as the biggest financial scam in the country’s history, state TV reported.
Iran warships ‘enter the Mediterranean’
AFP: Iranian warships entered the Mediterranean after crossing the Suez Canal on Saturday to show Tehran’s “might” to regional states, the navy commander said, at a time of simmering tensions with Israel.
400 Iran exiles reluctantly move to new Iraq home
AP: Lugging clothes, tables and whatever else they could carry, roughly 400 members of an Iranian exile group reluctantly moved Saturday from their camp in northwestern Iraq to a deserted military base outside the capital in what they called a show of good faith that they eventually will be allowed to leave the country peacefully.
Top US aide heads to Israel for talks on Iran, Syria
AFP: US National Security Advisor Tom Donilon will travel to Israel on Saturday for talks with senior Israeli officials on a range of issues, including Iran and Syria, the White House announced.
Britain fears new Cold War over Iran
AFP: Iran’s nuclear ambitions could trigger “a new Cold War” more perilous than that between the West and the Soviet Union, the British Foreign Secretary warned on Friday.
Obama administration takes back seat on Iran sanctions
Los Angeles Times: Despite the Obama administration’s vows to cripple Iran with economic sanctions, it is leaders in Congress and Europe who have seized the lead in the West’s long-running campaign to punish Tehran for its suspected nuclear weapons program.
Searches delay Iran exiles’ exit from Iraq camp
AFP: Searches of Iranian opposition members have delayed their departure from a camp in Iraq for a UN-approved site near Baghdad, an Iraqi army officer and a legal adviser to the exiles said on Friday.
Global clearinghouse ready to evict Iranian banks
AP: An international banking clearinghouse crucial to Iran’s oil sales said Friday that it is preparing to discontinue services to Iranian financial institutions, an unprecedented and potentially devastating blow to Tehran as the West ramps up a campaign to stop its nuclear program.
Still shocked and surprised by Iran?
Fox News: Twenty-three years ago this week, Iran’s self-appointed supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, broadcast a religious edict declaring that author Salman Rushdie and his publishers were “hereby sentenced to death.” The fatwa also called for “all the intrepid Muslims in the world” to “execute them quickly, wherever they find them.”
