Wall Street Journal: Military commanders and intelligence officers are pushing for greater authority to conduct covert operations to thwart Iranian influence in neighboring Iraq, according to U.S. officials.
U.S. eyes covert plan to counter Iran in Iraq
Iran is larger than thought: minister
AFP: Iran’s total area is larger than previously thought by some 14 percent, Defence Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi was quoted by the website of state television as saying Monday.
Iran kills 30 Kurdish rebels near Iraqi border
AP: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard soldiers have killed at least 30 members of Kurdish opposition group in fighting near the Iraqi border, a senior military official said Monday.
Iran makes arrests over new water fight attempt
AFP: Iranian police arrested “a handful of people” who wanted to engage in water fights at a park in central Tehran, deputy police chief Ahmad Reza Radan said on Sunday.
Iran’s nuclear plant linked to national grid: atomic agency
AFP: Iran’s first nuclear power plant was hooked up to the national grid on Saturday evening supplying 60 megawatts of its 1,000 megawatt capacity, the Atomic Energy Organisation announced on Sunday.
Iran says India paid all $5 bln of oil debts -IRNA
Reuters: India has paid off all oil debts accumulated this year due to a sanctions-related problem, Central Bank Governor Mahmoud Bahmani told the official IRNA news agency on Sunday.
Iranian sniper kills shepherd in northern Iraq
AP: A young Kurdish shepherd was killed Saturday by an Iranian sniper, local officials said Saturday amid concern about a spike in violence along the Iraq-Iran border.
Report: 11 hurt in air accident in Iran
AP: Iranian state TV says a conservative politician and 10 other passengers were hurt after a tire burst on an airplane landing in the northeast of the country.
Iranian official’s trip to North Korea postponed
CNN: A visit to North Korea and China planned by Iran’s parliament speaker was postponed Saturday, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported.
Iran’s Bushehr plant suffers possible new glitch
Reuters: Iran told U.N. inspectors last month it had temporarily shut down its Bushehr nuclear reactor for technical reasons, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a report, in a possible new setback for the Russian-built power plant.
