Washington Post: Iran is using 4,000 centrifuges to enrich uranium and plans to install an additional 3,000 of the devices, Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Reza Sheikh Attar said Thursday in an interview on Iranian state television.
Iran corroborates U.N. nuclear monitor’s estimate of centrifuges in operation
Bolivian president leaves on Libya, Iran trip
AFP: Bolivia's leftwing president, Evo Morales, left Friday on a trip to Libya and Iran to reinforce new diplomatic ties made with those two countries, officials said.
Ex-Tenn. professor denies he violated secrets law
AP: A retired University of Tennessee professor accused of passing secrets from his work on a U.S. Air Force contract to two foreign graduate students testified Friday that he didn't break the law because he hadn't even proven that his research worked.
Iran: new strides in uranium enrichment
AP: Iran has increased the number of operating centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant to 4,000, a top official said Friday, pushing ahead with the nuclear program despite threats of new U.N. sanctions.
Report: 4,000 centrifuges in Iran nuclear program
AP: Iran's official IRNA news agency says the government now has nearly 4,000 centrifuges operating in its uranium enrichment plant.
U.S. sees Iraq militias dropping arms but Iran role unclear
Reuters: Iraq's once formidable Mehdi Army appears to be bowing to orders to lay down arms, but it is yet unclear if Shi'ite fighters are preparing another offensive with Iranian help, a U.S. intelligence official said.
Iran’s Ahmadinejad blames foreign powers for Georgia crisis
AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday blamed foreign interference as well as Tbilisi's leadership for the crisis in Georgia and called on regional powers to come to a peaceful resolution.
Iran offers nuclear help to Nigeria’s power sector
Reuters: Iran on Thursday offered to share its nuclear technology with fellow OPEC member Nigeria to help revive its dilapidated power sector, considered the biggest hurdle to economic growth in Africa's most populous country.
Senior Iraqi official suspected of militia links
AP: A senior official in Nouri al-Maliki's government was in custody Thursday suspected of ties to Iranian-backed Shiite militias and plotting a June bombing that killed 10 people, including four Americans, Iraqi authorities said.
Iranian guards
Washington Times: A European-based Iranian exile group reports that there are major divisions within the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the Islamic shock troops that the U.S. government has linked to international terrorism.
