Reuters: A U.S. judge has sentenced an aviation company owner to 17 months in prison for conspiring to ship parts for fighter jets and other military aircraft to Iran in violation of the U.S. embargo, according to court papers.
Iranian-American sentenced in Iran smuggling plot
US says no deadline on nuclear diplomacy with Iran
VOA News: The Obama administration said Thursday it has set no deadline for its diplomatic outreach to Iran to show results, but that U.S. patience on the issue of Tehran's nuclear program is not infinite. The
Israel PM appeals to Pope over Iran
Press Association: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has appealed to Pope Benedict XVI "to make his voice heard" and use his moral authority to condemn the harsh anti-Israel rhetoric voiced by Iran's hard-line president.
CIA chief in secret Israel talks on Iran
AFP: CIA chief Leon Panetta has held secret talks in Israel with top officials who assured him the Jewish state would not launch a surprise strike on Iran, a report said.
Clash in Iranian border area kills eight – report
Reuters: Eight people died in fighting between gunmen and a religious militia in northwestern Iran near Turkey and Iraq, a government daily reported on Wednesday.
US reporter in Iran ‘held secret report on Iraq war’
AFP: A lawyer for US-born reporter Roxana Saberi, freed this week from a Tehran jail, said on Wednesday the spy charges she had faced arose after she obtained a classified report on the US war on Iraq.
Khamenei offers implicit support to Ahmadinejad
AFP: Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Tuesday offered his implicit support to hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who is seeking a second term as the Islamic republic's president.
Iran very close to getting nuclear arms: Israel
AFP: Iran is very close to acquiring nuclear weapons, the head of Israel's military intelligence was reported as telling a powerful parliamentary committee on Tuesday.
German jailed for six years for selling rocket material to Iran
DPA: A German businessman was jailed Monday for six years after admitting he sold Iran 16 tons of high-grade graphite to make rocket nozzles.
Saberi’s release is one small step in Iran
Los Angeles Times – Editorial: The release of American freelance journalist Roxana Saberi after four months in an Iranian prison is a welcome decision that begins to redress the miscarriage of justice in her case, but not the larger problems that bedevil Iran, such as human rights abuses under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his predecessors or the country's disregard for the rule of law.
