Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 20 Iranian authorities hanged ten people on Wednesday, state media reported.
Iran hangs ten people in one day
French court freezes $85M in Iranian assets
New York Sun: Acting on American court judgments meant to compensate victims of terrorism, a French court has frozen $85 million belonging to the Central Bank of Iran.
Iran sentences journalist to death
New York Times: Iran has sentenced a journalist to death, accusing him of being a member of a terrorist group in the countrys southeast, the judiciary said Tuesday.
INTERVIEW-Turkey considering partnership in Iran gas project
Reuters: State-owned Turkish Petroleum Company (TPAO) is considering working with partners to develop Iran’s South Pars gas field, a project seen worth $3.5 billion, the company’s general manager told Reuters late on Tuesday.
UAE’s Crescent sees progress in Iran gas talks
Reuters: The UAE’s Crescent Petroleum said on Wednesday that it had made progress on talks to resolve a dispute about pricing and volume for gas imports from Iran but had yet to reach a final agreement.
Iran, Iraq to reactivate parts of border deal: report
Reuters: Iran and Iraq have agreed to reactivate some elements of a 1975 border agreement which was the centre of a row in December when the Iraqi president said the treaty was void, a statement he later retracted.
Ahmadinejad in new attack on ‘savage animal’ Israel
AFP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Wednesday called Israel a “dirty microbe” and “savage animal”, as Iran stepped up its rhetoric against the Jewish state after the murder of a top Hezbollah commander.
Dissident ayatollah says freedom lacking in Iran
AFP: Iran’s most prominent dissident cleric has complained freedom is being “sacrificed” in the Islamic republic, pointing to the mass disqualification of candidates for March parliamentary elections.
Iran body reinstates more hopefuls for March vote
Reuters: An Iranian hard-line watchdog body has reinstated another 200 candidates to run in a March parliamentary election, state television reported on Wednesday.
Iranian dissidents urge immediate nuclear checks
Reuters: An Iranian opposition group called on Wednesday for the U.N. nuclear watchdog to immediately inspect facilities in Iran which it said were at the core of an accelerated nuclear weapons programme.
