AFP: Azeri security forces shot dead a young Iranian border guard who strayed into Azerbaijan, an Iranian local commander quoted by Fars news agency said on Thursday.
Azerbaijan border forces kill Iranian guard: report
Clinton in Oman for talks on Iran
AFP: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton paid a brief visit to Oman Wednesday for talks with Sultan Qaboos on rising tensions with Iran over its alleged plot to kill a Saudi envoy, officials said.
Hollywood calls for release of Iran filmmakers
AFP: Hollywood has expressed concern about Iran’s crackdown on directors and actors and called on Tehran to release filmmakers detained last month.
U.S. denies Iran claims that Saudi plot defendant belongs to exile group
New York Times: Obama administration officials on Wednesday denied Iranian news reports that a man charged in a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States is actually an agent of an exiled Iranian opposition group.
US indicts Iranians in alleged Saudi envoy plot
AFP: A grand jury in New York has indicted two Iranian men in an alleged plot to get Mexican gangsters to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington, court papers showed Thursday.
Russia concerned about Iran nuclear report: diplomats
Reuters: Russia fears a U.N. report which is expected to heighten suspicions about Iran’s atomic ambitions could undermine Moscow’s initiative to help resolve a nuclear dispute with Tehran, diplomatic sources said on Wednesday.
Iranian exiles say Iraq poised to attack Camp Ashraf
AFP: Iraqi forces are preparing to attack the Ashraf Camp in Iraq housing thousands of outlawed Iranian dissidents, the leader of an Iranian opposition group, Maryam Rajavi, told AFP on Wednesday.
Iran’s supreme leader ups fight with Ahmadinejad
AP: In the ongoing political skirmishes among Iran’s leadership, it was the equivalent of bringing out the heavy ammunition: The country’s most powerful figure warning that the post of elected president could someday be scrapped.
Britain freezes assets of five Iranians over alleged plot
AFP: Britain has frozen the assets of five Iranian nationals accused by the United States of involvement in a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington, the Treasury said Tuesday.
Iran gasoline import slump softens sanctions blow
Reuters: Iranian gasoline imports have slumped by as much as 95 percent over the last four years, according to official government data, as rising refinery capacity and lower fuel subsidies help neutralize western sanctions aimed at starving Tehran of fuel.
