Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 06 – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said on Wednesday that the only way Muslim states could “combat the threat of Israel” was by increasing collective cooperation against the Jewish state.
Iran urges regional unity against Israel
India trying to ensure constant crude supply from Iran:oil min
Reuters: India is trying to ensure uninterrupted supplies of crude from Iran, Indian oil minister S. Jaipal Reddy told reporters on Tuesday.
Germany calls on Iran to release journalist
AP: The speaker of Germany’s parliament is appealing to his Iranian counterpart to release an Iranian female sports journalist arrested a day before she planned to leave for the women’s soccer World Cup in Germany.
Iran jails prominent lawyer for 9 years
AP: Iran’s hard-line judiciary has sentenced a prominent rights lawyer to nine years in jail and barred him from working as an attorney for 10 years after he was convicted of seeking to overthrow the ruling system.
Iran ready for nuclear collaboration with Egypt
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 05 – Iran’s nuclear negotiator announced in Tehran that the Islamic Republic was ready to share its “home grown” nuclear knowledge with other countries including Egypt.
Iran says Hezbollah’s power “growing”
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 05 – The advisor to Iran’s Majlis (Parliament) Speaker has announced that the Shiite Lebanese group Hezbollah had seen real growth in recent years and that no international sanctions or pressure would change this.
Ahmadinejad hits out at West over Sudan partition
AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hit out at Western governments on Monday for “tearing apart” Sudan while rejecting the demands of separatists on their own soil, his website said.
Azerbaijani serviceman killed in Iran border clash: official
AFP: An Azerbaijani border guard was killed in a shoot-out when a group of armed men tried to enter the ex-Soviet state’s territory from neighbouring Iran, officials said on Monday.
Iran-Japan trade likely to grow 16% in 2011, Iran official says
Bloomberg: Iran aims to increase trade with Japan by about 16 percent to some $14 billion this year, Press TV reported, citing Abbas Araghchi, the Persian Gulf country’s ambassador to Japan.
Iran ‘could halt’ India oil supplies
AFP: Iran has “seriously warned” India that it could halt crude supplies if New Delhi failed to pay overdue payments hampered by international sanctions against Tehran, the oil ministry said Sunday.
