Reuters: Three European Union heavyweights accused Iran on Thursday of continuing “down the path of non-compliance and confrontation” with its nuclear work, four days before world powers are to resume talks with Tehran.
EU powers say Iran on path of “confrontation”
US lawmakers fume over China’s Iran links
AFP: US lawmakers united Wednesday in anger over China’s insidious links with Iran, but also blamed Washington for failing to impose sanctions on Beijing for aiding Tehran’s nuclear program.
Freed American releases song written in Iran jail
AP: An American woman freed from an Iranian prison has released a song she hopes will build support for the release of her friends who remain jailed in that country.
Sanctions cost Iran $60 billion in oil investments, Burns says
Bloomberg: Tougher U.S. sanctions on Iran are costing the Islamic regime as much as $60 billion in lost energy investments, Undersecretary of State William Burns said today.
IRAN: Contacts between Canadian and Iranian spy services revealed in Wikileaks release
Los Angeles Times: Even though Canadian officials told American counterparts that they were “very, very worried” about Iran’s ambitions and actions, they continued to maintain contacts between Ottawa and Tehran’s spy services, said a secret July 9, 2008, dispatch by the United States Embassy in the Canadian capital.
Iran says it boosted production of oil, gas parts
Bloomberg: Iran has boosted production of spare parts used in its oil and gas industry over the past five years to 70 percent of the amount the country needs, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said.
Iran denies 700 pct gasoline price hike plan
Reuters: Iran’s Economy Ministry denied a newspaper report on Wednesday that the price of gasoline was set to rise by 700 percent when subsidies are cut.
Iran talks must focus on nuclear issue: Clinton
Reuters: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday said the United States welcomed Iran’s decision to join talks in Geneva, which she said should focus “first and foremost” on Tehran’s nuclear program.
Dubai will never sever trade ties with Iran – official
Reuters: Dubai will never sever trade ties with neighbour and major trade partner Iran, a senior Dubai economy official said on Wednesday, as pressure on Tehran to curb its uranium enrichment drive keeps mounting.
Anxiety along Iraq’s border with Iran
Washington Post: In Shalamche, Iraq along this dusty border crossing that links Iraq with erstwhile enemy Iran, there is growing evidence that it is Iran that holds the upper hand at the twilight of the U.S. military mission here.
