VOA – Editorial: Human rights monitors are concerned over the reported detention of hundreds of ethnic Turkmen by Iranian authorities. The detentions followed the killing of an ethnic Turkmen fisherman, Husamettin Khadivar, by Iranian maritime security officers on December 28th.
Iran’s repressed Turkmen minority
Iran, Syria probe Mughniyeh killing
AP: Syria and Iran will conduct a joint investigation into the car bombing that killed Imad Mughniyeh, a commander of their Lebanese ally Hezbollah, Iran’s state news agency reported Friday.
Iran pleads case before anti-money laundering watchdog: US
AFP: Iran argued its case last month before an anti-money laundering watchdog that is urging Tehran to close loopholes in its financial system and limit terrorist financing, a US official said Friday.
U.S. says ready to resume talks with Iran on Iraq
Reuters: The United States is ready to resume talks with Iran on improving security in Iraq, a senior U.S. official said on Friday, but he accused Tehran of arming and training radical Iraqi Shi’ite fighters.
Iran ex-president appeals to watchdog over candidates
AFP: Iran’s influential former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on Friday urged the hardline electoral watchdog to reinstate moderate candidates for next month’s parliamentary election.
US: Iran must confess to nuclear arms
AP: The U.S. on Friday demanded that Iran confess to trying to make atomic weapons, suggesting that anything short of that would doom an International Atomic Energy Agency probe of Tehran’s nuclear past.
US meets Iranian official to discuss “terror” funds
Reuters: In a departure from usual policy, a senior U.S. Treasury official met Iranian representatives in Paris last month as part of a multinational gathering to discuss “terror financing,” said U.S. officials on Friday.
US secretly met Iran banking officials
AP: A U.S. official met secretly with Iranian banking officials and senior government aides who oppose punishing the Islamic nation for not doing enough to stop money laundering and terrorism funding, The Associated Press has learned.
Irans Supreme Energy Council comes under Gov control
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 15 Irans Supreme Energy Council (SEC) has been integrated into a government sub-committee, state media reported on Friday.
Irans Supreme Energy Council comes under Gov control
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 15 Irans Supreme Energy Council (SEC) has been integrated into a government sub-committee, state media reported on Friday.
