Reuters: Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards will not be involved in developing Tehran’s part of the world’s largest gas field, said a senior gas official on Monday.
Iran Guards pull out of giant gas field
Reports from the capital
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jul. 20 – From the Grapevine… Sabz-e Meidan (Vegetable Wholesale Market), Shoemakers Bazaar and Jewelers at Tehran’s grand Bazaar have been reported to be on strike. Only a handful of shops were open on Monday.
Four men hanged in Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jul. 19 – Three men were hanged Sunday in a prison in the city of Kerman, south-eastern Iran, according to an announcement on the website of the judiciary in Kerman Province. A fourth man was reportedly hanged in public in Khuzestan Province on Monday.
Allawi, Sadr hold talks in Damascus
AFP: Two figures at the centre of efforts to form a new Iraqi government, former premier Iyad Allawi and radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, met in Syria’s capital on Monday, an AFP photographer said.
ANALYSIS-Iran’s president angers conservatives, reformists
Reuters: Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seems to relish a fight, which may be just as well for a man who has acquired so many enemies at home and abroad.
Iranian-made submarines to be unveiled next month, Defense Minister says
Bloomberg: Iran’s new domestically built submarines are to be unveiled in August, Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said.
Iran urges US to drop ‘cowboy logic’ over nuclear issue
BBC: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said the US must stop using “cowboy logic” if it wants dialogue with Iran over its nuclear programme.
Iran slams global agencies as US instruments
AFP: Iran’s parliament speaker Ali Larijani on Monday launched a scathing attack against international bodies, saying that they have been used by major powers like the United States to detrimental ends.
Germany checking bank’s Iran dealings
AP: German authorities are investigating the activities of a Hamburg-based bank that specializes in financing trade between Europe and Iran, after it was blacklisted by the U.S. government in connection with sanctions against Tehran.
Avoiding another intelligence failure on Iran
Wall Street Journal: U.S. intelligence has already had two horrendously costly lapses this decade: the failure to interdict the plot of Sept. 11, 2001, and the erroneous assessment that Saddam Hussein was amassing weapons of mass destruction. Both brought us into wars. A third failure may now be unfolding, with consequences that might dwarf the preceding two. To avoid this, we need an inquest.
