Bloomberg: Iran started its first underground natural-gas storage facility with an annual capacity for 3.3 billion cubic meters of gas, Press TV reported yesterday.
Iran starts first underground gas storage facility, PressTV says
Israel is cancer that must be removed: Ahmadinejad
AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad branded Israel a cancer cell that must be removed Sunday, after Israeli gunfire killed 12 people and wounded hundreds as Palestinians marched in a mass show of mourning over the creation of the Jewish state.
Lawmakers hope to force Iran’s hand on nukes
AP: Iran could face a new array of U.S. sanctions under proposed House legislation that’s meant to force Tehran into international talks on its nuclear program.
Bin Laden was a US prisoner before being killed: Iran
AFP: Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden was a prisoner in US custody for “sometime” before he was killed by the American military, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday.
Iran president takes over oil ministry temporarily
AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he has temporarily assumed the duties of the oil ministry, as the oil cartel OPEC prepares for a biannual meeting in Vienna.
Iran advocates security agreements with Pakistan
Iran Focus: Tehran, May 16 – Iran’s Deputy Interior Minister met with Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik in Islamabad on Sunday to discuss mutual security issues including border control, the state-run news agency Fars reported.
Iran militia trains for anti-regime protests: report
AFP: Thousands of Islamic militiamen loyal to Iran’s rulers have staged exercises for deployment against protesters in the event of any anti-regime demonstrations, a reformist daily reported on Saturday.
Iran threatens to let heroin, opium be trafficked to Europe if West keeps up criticism
AP: Iran threatened Saturday to allow the transit of illegal drugs through its territory to Europe if the West continues to criticize the Islamic nation for its practice of executing drug traffickers.
Ally criticizes Iran’s president in power struggle
AP: The spiritual mentor of Iran’s president has harshly criticized him for his role in an internal power struggle that has split the country’s hard-liners, indicating that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s own support base is badly fraying.
North Korea, Iran trade missile technology: U.N.
Reuters: North Korea and Iran appear to have been regularly exchanging ballistic missile technology in violation of U.N. sanctions, according to a confidential United Nations report obtained by Reuters on Saturday.
