Reuters: The Dutch government will do everything possible to determine whether a Dutch-Iranian woman who was executed in Iran was tortured, and to return her body to her family, the foreign minister told parliament Thursday.
Dutch government seeks return of hanged woman’s body from Iran
EU waives Iran visa ban, but Tehran stays silent
Reuters: European Union states have agreed to waive a visa ban on Iran’s foreign minister so he can attend a security conference in Germany this weekend, but Tehran has yet to reply to the invitation, an EU official said.
In Iran, Internet surfers battle cyber police
AFP: Western sanctions have done little to stop the flow of computers and software to Iran, where the real challenge for cyber surfers is getting around local censors who block thousands of websites, including Facebook and YouTube.
India settles oil dispute with Iran-source
Reuters: India has resolved a payments dispute with Iran over their multi-billion dollar oil business, an oil ministry source said, with New Delhi certifying each deal to try to ensure funds do not go to Iran’s nuclear programme.
WikiLeaks: Sale of uranium mine blocked over Iran fears
Daily Telegraph: The US intervened in the £371 million sale of a Canadian-owned mine in Africa because of fears that uranium ore would be sold to Iran, the leaked cables show.
WikiLeaks: Vanished FBI officer Robert Levinson ‘held by Iranian Revolutionary Guards’
Daily Telegraph: A former FBI officer who disappeared in mysterious circumstances in Iran four years ago has been held by the country’s Revolutionary Guard, the cables suggest.
WikiLeaks: Iran’s missile launchers towed by Peugeots
Daily Telegraph: Family cars made by Fiat, Peugeot and Renault are being used as missile platforms by the Iranian armed forces because of their difficulty obtaining proper military vehicles, leaked cables show.
Iran could make nuclear weapon in 1-2 years-IISS
Reuters: Iran could make a nuclear weapon in as little as one or two years if it wished, an influential think-tank said on Thursday — but industrial sabotage and the Stuxnet computer worm had probably slowed its progress.
WikiLeaks: British firms made millions from trading with Iranians
Daily Telegraph: British companies made millions of pounds selling or leasing items to Iranian companies that were the subject of international trade sanctions, US Embassy documents show.
Iran tech expo sends defiant message to West
AP: An Iranian supercomputer. New space rockets and satellites carrying the flag of the Islamic Republic. Biotech innovations that include artificial tendons.
