The Times: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran suffered a humiliating and politically damaging setback yesterday when his Interior Minister, Ali Kordan, was impeached by parliament for deception after he confessed to holding a forged law degree from the University of Oxford.
Iranian interior minister sacked over fake Oxford degree
Tehran begins to feel the pain of finance crisis
Washington Times: When the U.S. stock market plunged and venerable New York investment houses fell, some Iranian leaders said the Bush administration was paying the price for its aggressive, unilateral ways.
Iran: OPEC may need further cut if prices drop
Reuters: OPEC may need to cut its oil output more but it remained too early to tell if a further reduction was needed, Iran's OPEC governor Mohammad Ali Khatibi told Reuters on Wednesday.
Iran army warns US forces to steer clear of borders
AFP: Tehran's military on Wednesday urged US forces to steer clear of Iran's borders with neighbouring Iraq and warned it would respond "to any invasion," the official IRNA news agency reported.
Iran warns U.S. not to violate Iranian airspace
Reuters: Iran's military has warned U.S. forces in Iraq that U.S. helicopters had been spotted flying close to the Iranian border and that Tehran would respond to any violation of its airspace, state radio reported on Wednesday.
Iran’s interior minister sacked over fake degree
AFP: Iran's parliament on Tuesday voted to sack Interior Minister Ali Kordan for lying about his credentials and presenting a fake degree from a prestigious British university.
NATO: Iran’s threats to close Hormuz a ‘fantasy’
AP: The commander of NATO's naval forces says Iranian threats to close a strategic Persian Gulf waterway are imaginary.
Iran holds student living in U.S. on security charges
Reuters: An Iranian female student, who was arrested in Tehran last month while visiting from the United States, is accused of acting against national security, the judiciary said on Tuesday.
U.S. efforts divert Iran-bound cargo
Washington Post: The United States thwarted a suspect shipment from North Korea to Iran by persuading the Indian government to deny clearance for the North Korean flight to travel through Indian airspace, U.S. officials said yesterday.
Scandal, fistfight erupt over impeachment move in Iran
Washington Post: A move to impeach an Iranian minister, slated for Tuesday, has flared into a full-blown political scandal after an attempt to bribe lawmakers over the matter led to a fistfight between supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who, in turn, says parliament is out to sabotage his cabinet ahead of elections in June.
