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.
Iraq, siding with Iran, sends essential aid to Syria’s Assad
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.
New EU sanctions to hit Syria commercial bank, 29 Iranians
AFP: The European Union is preparing to target a Syrian commercial bank and 29 Iranians accused of human rights violations in fresh sanctions to be announced in the coming days, EU diplomats said Thursday.
Analysis: Iran’s biggest financial scam weakens Ahmadinejad
Reuters: Iranian hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose campaign pledge was to combat corruption, is facing a fresh political blow over the biggest financial scandal in Iran’s history.
Iran intimidates relatives of British-based journalists: BBC
AFP: Iranian authorities have launched a campaign of intimidation against relatives and friends of British-based Iranian journalists working for the BBC, the broadcaster said on Wednesday.
