AFP: US authorities have charged an Iranian man with exporting specialized metals to his homeland where firms under US sanction could use them in nuclear and ballistic missile programs, the Department of Justice said Tuesday.
US charges Iranian with exporting metal to missile firms
Iran’s gateway in Dubai highlights sanctions’ bite
AP: The appeals from cash-starved businesses in Iran come in nearly every day at the small shipping office in Dubai.
Iran parliament dismisses Transport Minister over poor record
Bloomberg: Iran’s parliament dismissed the Roads and Transportation Minister after blaming him for failing to improve road and air safety, state-run news agencies reported.
Iran warns France over Louvre artefacts: report
AFP: Tehran has warned it will cut cultural ties with France if renowned Paris museum The Louvre fails to set up an exhibition of Persian artefacts in Iran as agreed, an official was Monday cited as saying.
Freed US hiker summoned for Iran trial: prosecutor
AFP: US hiker Sarah Shourd, freed on bail last year, has been summoned for trial in Iran along with her two American friends who remain in custody, the prosecutor general said on Monday.
Egyptian protests inspire opposition in Iran
Wall Street Journal: Egypt’s uprising has captivated the Arab world, but in Iran—fresh from its own outpouring of antigovernment unrest—backers of the regime and supporters of the beleaguered opposition are competing for credit for inspiring the demonstrations in Cairo.
Nigeria trial of alleged Iran arms shipper postponed
Reuters: The trial in Nigeria of an alleged member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards over an arms shipment seized last year in the West African country has been postponed until later this week, lawyers said on Monday.
Iran’s weapons smuggling ring
Wall Street Journal Europe: Tehran’s attempt to arm Islamists in West Africa has intensified the regime’s diplomatic isolation.
EU parliament chief denounces Iran’s hanging of Dutch woman
AFP: President of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek on Sunday denounced Iran’s hanging of a Iranian-Dutch woman arrested after anti-government protests in 2009 then convicted of drug trafficking.
Germany urges Iran to free two journalists
AFP: Germany on Sunday urged Iran to immediately release two journalists arrested for covering the case of a woman whose sentence to death by stoning provoked international condemnation.
