Wall Street Journal: United Nations investigators found "significant" traces of uranium used in reactors at the wreckage of a Syrian facility that Israel bombed last year, and Iran is ramping up production of nuclear fuel while denying investigators access, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported Wednesday.
U.N. watchdog finds nuclear threats in Syria and Iran
Iran blocks access to over five million websites: report
AFP: Iran has blocked access to more than five million Internet sites, whose content is mostly perceived as immoral and anti-social, a judiciary official was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
IAEA, Iran in silent standoff over nuclear probe
Reuters: An inquiry by the U.N. nuclear watchdog into alleged atom bomb research by Iran has degenerated into a silent standoff a few months after Tehran asserted "the matter is over," U.N. officials said on Wednesday.
Little headway in Iran nuclear probe: UN watchdog
AFP: Iran is still defying UN demands to suspend uranium enrichment and not cooperating with investigations into claims that its nuclear programme has a military aspect, the UN atomic watchdog said Wednesday.
U.S. urges vigilance against Iranian banks in Dubai
Reuters: Iranian banks are operating in the Gulf financial hub of Dubai despite U.N. sanctions and authorities should keep a close eye on them, a U.S. official involved in tracking suspicious financial activity said on Wednesday.
US arrests suspected Iranian agent in Iraq
AP: The U.S. military says it has arrested an alleged senior member of the Iranian security forces suspected of funneling weapons into Iraq.
Iran firm says trying to contact hijacked grain ship
Reuters: An Iranian shipping firm said on Wednesday it was trying to contact a Hong Kong-flagged ship carrying grain to Iran that it had chartered and that had been hijacked by Somali pirates.
Ahmadinejad aide approved as Iran’s Interior Minister
Washington Post: A close aide to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was narrowly approved as Iran's new interior minister by parliament Tuesday.
Iranian commando arrested at Baghdad airport: US
AFP: Iraqi security forces have arrested an alleged "senior" Iranian commando from the elite Revolutionary Guard's Quds Force at Baghdad International Airport, the US military said Wednesday.
Iranian grain ship seized as Somali pirates hold world to ransom
The Times: Somali pirates struck again yesterday, seizing an Iranian cargo ship holding 30,000 tonnes of grain, as the world’s governments and navies pronounced themselves powerless against this new threat to global trade.
