The National: Residents at an Iraqi camp for Iranian dissidents have started a hunger strike to protest against alleged human rights abuses inflicted by Iraqi security forces this week, amid fears that the Iranian regime’s influence is growing in the Iraqi government.
Irans hand is seen behind camp massacre
German firm in Iran bans staff protests
Wall Street Journal: A privately owned German company, Knauf Gips KG, warned its Iranian employees working in Iran that they would be immediately dismissed if caught in antigovernment protests, according to a document reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
Iraqi troops blocked by Iranian exiles
Wall Street Journal: Members of an Iranian dissidents' group formed a human blockade to successfully prevent Iraqi troops from seizing more territory in their camp north of Baghdad, in the third day of a confrontation that showed no sign of ending soon.
Iran president: No rift with supreme leader
AP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says there is no rift between him and Iran's supreme leader, lashing back at criticism from within his own hard-line camp.
Some in OPEC may push for cut if price drops: Iran
Reuters: Iran's OPEC governor said if oil prices continued to drop some cartel members may demand further production cut of its oil output, the official IRNA news agency reported on Friday.
Iran blames foreign countries for protester deaths
AP: The Iranian foreign minister is blaming foreign countries for the deaths of opposition supporters in Iran's post-election turmoil.
Iran police clash with protesters on mourning day
AFP: Riot police used tear gas and batons to break up a demonstration in Tehran on Thursday and clashed with mourners at a defiant graveside commemoration for people killed in election violence, witnesses said.
Hunger strike
Washington Times: Iranian activists Wednesday began a hunger strike across from the White House to demand that the United States defend disarmed Iranian rebels at a camp in Iraq, as Iraqi authorities continued to assert control over the former resistance fighters and their relatives.
Iraq mounts attack on Iranian dissidents
CBS Evening News: Iraqi police attacked unarmed members of an Iranian opposition group living in Iraq, known as the MEK. The attack was the latest sign that American influence in Iraq is waning. Lara Logan reports. Click here to view the clip aired by CBS Evening
Billion dollar bailout for Iran’s biggest car maker
AFP: Iran Khodro, the Middle East's biggest car manufacturer, is to receive one billion dollars in a government-backed rescue package, a company official said on on Wednesday.
