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.
Iran and China increase trade
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.
Iran says it can block ‘Internet in a suitcase’
AP: Iran’s intelligence minister said Friday that his country has found a way to block the so-called “Internet in a suitcase,” a program reportedly developed by the U.S. to bring online access to dissidents around the world.
Iran installing advanced nuclear machines for testing
Reuters: Iran is stepping up centrifuge development work aimed at making its nuclear enrichment more efficient, diplomats say, signalling a possible advance in the Islamic Republic’s disputed atomic programme.
Tehran ready to give Syria $5.8 billion: report
Reuters: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini backs offering $5.8 billion in aid to Syria to bolster its economy, a French newspaper said Friday, citing a report by a Tehran think-tank linked to Iran’s leadership.
Iranians protest US ban on opposition group
Iran Focus: Washington, DC, Jul. 15 – Hundreds of Iranians rallied Friday outside the US State Department on the anniversary of a US Federal Court of Appeals ruling in favour of the main Iranian opposition group, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), urging the Obama Administration to revoke the group’s status as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation.
Spanish judge want to quiz Iraq PM over killings
AP: A Spanish judge wants to question Iraq’s prime minister and three Iraqi army officers in a probe into the killing of Iranians exiled in Iraq.
