AP: Indian investigators were searching Tuesday for the motorcycle assailant who attached a bomb to an Israeli diplomatic car in the heart of New Delhi in an attack the Jewish state blamed on Iran or its proxies.
India vows to find person behind Israel attack
Valentine’s Day finds a niche in Islamic Iran
AFP: Iran may reject Western influences, but Valentine’s Day has become a growing phenomenon thanks to the romantically minded youth of the Islamic state’s affluent classes.
Terror expert: NYC is likely target
UPI: Bomb attacks on Israeli embassy staff in India and Georgia raise concerns about New York City being similarly targeted, a city police expert warned.
Iran may disrupt Hormuz shipping, supporting oil price, S&P says
Bloomberg: Iran might respond to sanctions with low-level provocation such as slowing shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, keeping oil prices at “their currently high level,” according to three Standard & Poor’s reports.
Letter writers break Iranian taboo
WSJ: A letter-writing campaign to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has shattered a taboo against criticizing the country’s top religious and political authority.
Iran claims new oil field discovery
UPI: Iran made an oil field discovery that will add to its recoverable reserve estimate of more than 150 million barrels, an official said.
Iran denies role in Israeli embassy attack -envoy
Reuters: Iran rejects as “sheer lies” accusations that it was involved in a bomb attack on the Israeli embassy in India, the official IRNA news agency quoted the Islamic Republic’s ambassador to New Delhi as saying on Monday.
Iran: Nuclear facilities immune to cyber attacks
AP: A senior Iranian military official said Monday that Tehran’s nuclear and other industrial facilities suffer periodic cyber attacks, but that the country has the technology to protect itself from the threat, an official news agency reported.
Iran chokes Internet at politically sensitive time
AFP: Access to the Internet’s most-used sites and tools is being choked in Iran at a politically charged period, blocking communication channels for local businesses, bank clients, scientists and foreign media.
Israel blames Iran for embassy bombs in Delhi, Tbilisi
AFP: A hitman on a motorbike fixed a suspected magnetic bomb on an Israeli embassy car in the Indian capital on Monday, police said, in one of two attacks in New Delhi and Tbilisi blamed by Israel on Iran.
