New York Times: An Iranian nuclear scientist who said he had been abducted by the C.I.A. has been imprisoned and tortured since his return to Iran in July, an opposition Web site reported Monday.
US denies Iran shot down spy planes over Gulf
BBC: The US has denied that any of its unmanned spy planes have been shot down by Iran.
Iran to ensure oil supplies to India until end of month
Wall Street Journal: Iran has assured India of uninterrupted crude oil supplies in January and has proposed a temporary payment channel through a bank based in Germany, a senior Indian official said Tuesday.
China says Iran offers nuclear site visit before talks
Bloomberg: Iran invited China to visit its nuclear sites ahead of multination talks later this month, China said, as the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls for sanctions on his country to be lifted.
Spanish court open probe into killings in Iraq
AP: A Spanish judge has opened a probe into a melee in which Iraqi security forces are accused of killing 11 members of an Iranian exile group in a camp in Iraq in 2009, according to a court order obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.
Iran’s Siberian tiger dies: reports
AFP: A Siberian tiger delivered to Iran by Russia in a swap deal last year has died from a disease which one official said it contracted before it was given to Tehran, reports said on Monday.
Ahmadinejad dismisses 14 advisers in latest shakeup of his administration
Bloomberg: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed 14 of his advisers in the latest shakeup of his administration, Press TV reported.
India and Iran sanctions
Wall Street Journal – REVIEW & OUTLOOK: Since Iran announced its intention to build a nuclear bomb, it has had a friend in India. How encouraging, then, that Delhi is changing its tune as sanctions momentum builds.
Iran’s first nuclear plant to start operations in February in latest delay
Bloomberg: Iran’s first nuclear power plant will start operations in February, later than planned, said Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization.
Standing up to Iran’s executioners
Iran Focus – Editorial: Last Tuesday, the Iranian regime’s malicious noose took another innocent life. Political prisoner Ali Saremi, 63, was hanged in Tehran’s infamous Evin prison after a lifetime of peacefully espousing human rights and democracy.
