Press Association: Europe's governments were ordered by a court to follow the UK's lead and take Iran's main opposition group off a blacklist of suspected terror organisations.
Court order over EU terror list
Court annuls EU assets freeze for Iranian opposition group
AFP: A European court on Thursday annulled an EU decision to freeze the assets of the main Iranian opposition in exile, dealing a fresh blow to the bloc's attempts to keep the group on its terror blacklist.
Iraq doesn’t need Iran’s help, Rice says
Reuters: Iraq does not need Iran to help defend its interests, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday, after Iran charged that Washington sought to continue "looting" Iraq with a new security pact.
Iran’s oil party is over, economists warn
AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will have a hard time meeting his election pledge of "putting oil money on people's tables" as crude prices tumble, industrial investment shrinks and spending on imports soars.
US slaps sanctions on Iran bank
AP: The Bush administration is imposing financial sanctions on the Export Development Bank of Iran for allegedly providing financial services in support of the country's weapons program.
Cleric in Iran issues fatwa against US-Iraqi pact
AP: An influential Iraqi cleric living in Iran on Wednesday issued a fatwa condemning a U.S.-Iraqi security pact that would keep American troops in Iraq for three more years and warned Iraqi leaders not to back the deal.
Iran’s preconditions
Wall Street Journal – REVIEW & OUTLOOK: Barack Obama's declaration that, if elected, he would be willing to sit down and talk to Iran "without preconditions" has been widely discussed in this country.
Iran rejects idea of U.S. NGO presence: media
Reuters: Iran will refuse any request by U.S.-based non-governmental organization American-Iranian Council (AIC) to open an office in the Islamic Republic, the interior minister said in comments published on Wednesday.
Iran launches delayed South Pars gas phase
AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad launched phase six of the giant South Pars gas field on Tuesday after a two-year delay, state television reported.
Financial meltdown defuses military options on Iran
Reuters: The global financial crisis has eclipsed Western jitters over Iran's nuclear program and may have put paid to the possibility of the United States or Israel resorting to preemptive military strikes.
