Wall Street Journal – REVIEW & OUTLOOK: There's no place like New York for the holidays — the tree at Rockefeller Center, the decorated store windows, the Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall. Now there's something else for shoppers to think about as they stroll along Fifth Avenue: nuclear proliferators.
Proliferators on Fifth Avenue
Five hanged in Iran’s holy city
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 22 – Iranian authorities have hanged five men in the holy city of Qom, south of Tehran, state media reported.
Five hanged in Iran’s holy city
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 22 – Iranian authorities have hanged five men in the holy city of Qom, south of Tehran, state media reported.
Russia stays quiet on reported Iran missile sale
AFP: Russia is delivering "defensive" anti-aircraft systems to Iran, the country's arms export firm said on Monday, while not commenting on reports it was sending S-300 surface-to-air missiles to Tehran.
Tehran says its getting missiles
New York Times: An Iranian official said Russia had started delivering an advanced air-defense system to Iran, despite earlier denials by Russia that a deal had been reached, the official IRNA news agency reported Sunday.
EU slams Iran for closing Nobel laureate’s office
Reuters: The French presidency of the European Union condemned Iran on Monday for closing the offices of a human rights watchdog group led by Iran's Nobel peace prize winner Shirin Ebadi and called on Tehran to reopen it.
Tehran’s wish is law to Brussels
Sunday Telegraph: If the politicians who run the European Union were found to be acting repeatedly in gross breach of their own it would be thought worthy of some attention, writes Christopher Booker.
Russia starts missile delivery to Iran: Iranian MP
Reuters: Russia has begun delivering S-300 air defense systems to Iran which could help repel any Israeli and U.S. air strikes on its nuclear sites, the official IRNA news agency reported on Sunday.
Iran using Venezuela ties to duck UN sanctions: report
AFP: Iran is using its warm relations with Venezuela to dodge UN sanctions and use Venezuelan aircraft to ship missile parts to Syria, an Italian newspaper reported Sunday.
Iranian navy joins fight against Somali pirates
CNN: A group of Iranian warships steamed into the Gulf of Aden, joining an expanding list of navies sent to protect shipping routes from Somali pirates, state-run media reported Saturday.
