AFP: Iran used Red Crescent ambulances to smuggle weapons and agents into Lebanon during Hezbollah’s 2006 war with Israel, a leaked US diplomatic cable showed on Monday.
Iran ‘smuggled arms’ to Hezbollah on ambulances
Blast ‘kills top Iran nuclear scientist’
AFP: Twin blasts in Iran’s capital killed a prominent nuclear scientist and wounded another on Monday, said state media reports that promptly accused Israeli agents on motorbikes of attaching the bombs to their cars.
Around the world, distress over Iran
New York Times: In late May 2009, Israel’s defense minister, Ehud Barak, used a visit from a Congressional delegation to send a pointed message to the new American president.
Iran fortifies its arsenal with the aid of North Korea
New York Times: Secret American intelligence assessments have concluded that Iran has obtained a cache of advanced missiles, based on a Russian design, that are much more powerful than anything Washington has publicly conceded that Tehran has in its arsenal, diplomatic cables show.
Iran foils hijacking on Syria-bound plane
AFP: Revolutionary Guard air marshals arrested a “counter-revolutionary” who tried to hijack an Iranian passenger plane headed for Syria, the Islamic republic’s elite group said on Saturday.
Iran says 1b litres gasoline produced since July
Reuters: Iran has produced more than a billion litres of gasoline since July, in an effort to make the country less vulnerable to sanctions over its disputed nuclear programme, the Oil Ministry’s website Shana said on Saturday.
Lebanese PM Hariri on ‘historic’ visit to Iran
AFP: Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri arrived in Iran on Saturday on a first official visit amid a tense political stand-off between his pro-Western camp and rival Iran-backed Shiite militia Hezbollah.
Iran criticises Egypt FM’s remarks on Arab ties
AFP: Iran has criticised Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit for reportedly saying Tehran should keep out of the internal affairs of Arab countries and not meddle in Iraq and Lebanon.
Iran, Turkmenistan inaugurate gas pipeline
AFP: Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Turkmen counterpart Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov inaugurated on Sunday the last section of a pipeline to export Turkmen gas to northeast Iran, media reported.
Iran’s nuclear plant starts operations
AFP: Iran’s first nuclear power plant in the southern port city of Bushehr has started operations, the nation’s atomic chief said on Saturday, media reported.
