AP: Iran has begun uranium enrichment at a new underground site well protected from possible airstrikes, a leading hardline newspaper reported Sunday.
Report: Iran begins uranium enrichment at new site
US Navy rescues Iranian fishing boat from pirates
AP: The political tensions between the U.S. and Iran over transit in and around the Persian Gulf gave way Friday to photos of rescued Iranian fisherman happily wearing American Navy ball caps.
Iran holds military exercise near Afghan border
Reuters: Iran launched a military manoeuvre near its border with Afghanistan on Saturday, the semi-official Fars news agency reported, days after naval exercises in the Gulf increased tensions with the West and pushed up oil prices.
West readies oil stocks release as Iran plans war games
Reuters: Iran announced on Friday new military exercises in the Strait of Hormuz, but the West has readied plans to use strategic oil stocks to replace almost all Gulf oil lost if Iran blocks the waterway, industry sources and diplomats told Reuters.
Iran group say US responsible for members in Iraq
Reuters: The leader of an Iranian dissident group in Iraq said on Friday the United States would be responsible for any harm that came to 3,000 of its members who could be forcefully moved to a camp outside Baghdad that they describe as a prison.
S. Korea to seek exemption from Iran oil sanctions
AFP: South Korea will seek an exemption from new US sanctions that will further restrict Iran’s crucial crude oil exports, a senior Seoul official said Friday.
Iran to hold new wargames in key oil waterway in weeks
AFP: Iran is to hold fresh military exercises in and around the strategic Strait of Hormuz within weeks, the naval commander of its powerful Revolutionary Guards was quoted as saying on Friday.
US lawmakers urge probe of telecom firms in Iran
AFP: The US State Department said Thursday it was mulling a request from US lawmakers to probe whether China’s Huawei Technologies and other telecom firms are violating US sanctions on Iran.
Iranian carpet tradition faces modern pressures
AP: Deep in Tehran’s carpet bazaar, merchants and laborers occupy chambers that have changed little over the centuries. But Iran’s carpet industry now faces some modern pressures.
Iran intensifies efforts to influence policy in Afghanistan
Washington Post: Worried that U.S. troops could stay in Afghanistan beyond 2014, Iran is mounting an aggressive campaign to fuel anti-American sentiment here and convince Afghan leaders that a robust, long-term security partnership with Washington would be counterproductive, Afghan officials and analysts say.
