AFP: President Barack Obama vowed Sunday to “keep up pressure” on Tehran to prevent the Islamic republic from obtaining nuclear weapons, as he condemned its support for extremists in the region.
Obama vows pressure on Iran’s nuclear plans
Iraq signs deal with Iran to import gas for power
Reuters: Iraq’s electricity ministry said on Sunday it has signed an initial agreement with Iran to import natural gas for power generation.
Ahmadinejad remains caretaker oil minister: aide
Reuters: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad remains Iran’s caretaker oil minister, despite a ruling by the constitutional watchdog that he had no legal right to the post, ISNA news wire reported a vice-president saying on Sunday.
Iran says finds light oil in offshore gas field
Reuters: Iran has discovered a deposit of light oil offshore of an estimated in-place reserve of 756 million barrels valued at $13.6 billion, the state TV website reported on Saturday quoting a senior oil official.
Iran arrests 30 people suspected of spying for US
AFP: The Iranian intelligence ministry announced that it had uncovered and dismantled a network suspected of spying for the United States and made 30 arrests, state television reported on Saturday.
Report: Iran VP sentenced for ‘violations’
AP: Iran’s Administrative Justice Court has ordered that an Iranian vice president be barred from government service for four years.
U.S. revises visa policy in gesture to Iranians
Reuters: Some Iranian students may seek two-year, multiple-entry U.S. visas, the State Department said on Friday, giving them greater freedom to travel to the United States in a gesture to improve people-to-people ties.
Iran body rules Ahmadinejad can’t be oil caretaker
AP: In a fresh blow to the embattled Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s constitutional watchdog body has ruled that the president can’t serve as the country’s caretaker oil minister.
Court filings assert Iran had link to 9/11 attacks
New York Times: Two defectors from Iran’s intelligence service have testified that Iranian officials had “foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks,” according to a court filing Thursday in a federal lawsuit in Manhattan that seeks damages for Iran’s “direct support for, and sponsorship of, the most deadly act of terrorism in American history.”
Ahmadinejad aide accused of seeking U.S. contacts, Shargh says
Bloomberg: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s closest political aide was accused by a group that backs Iran’s supreme leader of trying to establish contacts with the U.S. and its intelligence services, the Shargh newspaper reported.
