AFP: At least two Iranian Kurdish rebels and one member of Tehran’s elite Revolutionary Guards were killed during clashes along the Islamic Republic’s border with Iraq, the two sides said on Sunday.
At least two Kurds, Iran Guard killed on Iraq border
Iran to export 2.6 mln litres of gasoline per day
Reuters: Iran said on Sunday it would export 2.6 million litres of gasoline per day due to a rise in production and fall in consumption, an official was quoted as saying by the semi-official Fars news agency.
Iran ‘arrests’ second female reporter
AFP: Iran has arrested another female reporter wanting to cover the women’s football World Cup in Germany, a press report said on Sunday, saying she was being held in Tehran’s notorious Evin jail.
Report: Iranians seize Kurdish bases in Iraq
AP: Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces have taken control of three bases of an Iranian Kurdish opposition group in neighboring Iraq, the state news agency reported Monday.
Iran’s top leader: US is ‘real enemy’ of Pakistan
AP: Iran’s state TV says the country’s supreme leader has told Pakistan’s president that the United States is Pakistan’s real enemy.
Iran and China increase trade
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jul. 17 – Iran and China have signed several agreements worth $4 billion to expand infrastructure and trade ties, Iranian state media reported on Saturday.
Argentina tells Iran: hand over bombing suspects
AFP: The prosecutor investigating the worst terror strike on Argentine soil, the 1994 bombing of a Jewish charities building that killed 85 people, urged Iran Saturday to hand over any suspects in the case.
Iran, Pakistan urge stronger ties
AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and visiting Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari called on Saturday for a boost to bilateral relations, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Top Iran cleric warns all factions to obey Supreme Leader
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 16 – A top Iranian cleric warned Friday that the Islamic Republic would not tolerate disobedience towards Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Iran sees trade booming despite sanctions
UPI: Iran expects to garner non-oil trade worth more than $45 billion during its current calendar year despite a plethora of international sanctions led by the United States, the United Nations and the European Union.
