AFP: OPEC is likely to keep its oil production quotas unchanged at its next meeting in December, Iran’s representative to the cartel said, according to the oil ministry website.
OPEC likely to keep oil output unchanged: Iran
Iran says radar can detect small unmanned drones
AP: A senior military commander says Iran’s air defense units have been equipped with advanced radars capable of detecting unmanned drones.
Iran confirms Gazprom not to work on Azar oilfield
Reuters: Iran confirmed on Sunday that Gazprom would not be involved in the development of a major on-shore oil field, accusing the Russian state energy giant of dragging its feet over the project, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
Iraq, siding with Iran, sends essential aid to Syria’s Assad
Washington Post: More than six months after the start of the Syrian uprising, Iraq is offering key moral and financial support to the country’s embattled president, undermining a central U.S. policy objective and raising fresh concerns that Iraq is drifting further into the orbit of an American arch rival — Iran.
Iran FM due to visit Kuwait
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 08 – Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi will visit Kuwait on Monday, the official news agency IRNA reported.
Vietnam seeks closer economic ties with Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 08 – The President of the Iran-Vietnam Friendship Society, Deng No Levy, visited the central Iranian city of Isfahan on Thursday and called for strengthening Iran-Vietnam economic ties.
Iran tells Turkey: change tack or face trouble
Reuters: A key aide to Iran’s supreme leader said on Saturday Turkey must radically rethink its policies on Syria, the NATO missile shield and promoting Muslim secularism in the Arab world — or face trouble from its own people and neighbors.
Romney pledges to increase U.S. military spending, deter Iran
Bloomberg: Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama of bowing to global adversaries and promised, if elected, to boost America’s military strength by expanding the Navy and missile defenses.
FBI keeping eye on China, Russia, Iran cyberspying
AFP: The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has made a campaign against cyberthreats one of its “highest priorities,” with China, Russia and Iran in the crosshairs, the bureau’s chief said Thursday.
Social rules clash with reality for Iran’s youth
Reuters: Twenty-one-year-old Iranian Farnoush has her own job but no longer her own telephone.
