Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 10 Authorities in the province of Khorrasan Jonoubi, eastern Iran, hanged three individuals on Wednesday, state media reported.
Three people hanged in eastern Iran
Three people hanged in eastern Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 10 Authorities in the province of Khorrasan Jonoubi, eastern Iran, hanged three individuals on Wednesday, state media reported.
Iran: No Turkmen gas price talks till flows resume
Reuters: Iran will not discuss any increase in the price of gas supplied from Turkmenistan until flows to the Islamic Republic resume, Iran’s oil minister was quoted by the ministry’s Web site SHANA as saying on Wednesday.
General, TV station hit with sanctions
Washington Times: The Bush administration yesterday imposed new financial sanctions on a top Iranian general and a Syrian-based television station, accusing them of backing violent attacks on U.S. and allied forces in Iraq.
Top Iranian general hit with sanctions
Washington Post: The United States yesterday slapped sanctions on a top Iranian general and three exiled Iraqis based in Iran and Syria for fomenting violence in Iraq, as President Bush lashed out again at Tehran for last weekend’s showdown between U.S. and Iranian naval vessels.
Saudi FM urges restraint by US and Iran
AP: Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister urged the United States and Iran on Wednesday to show restraint after this weekend’s naval confrontation in the Persian Gulf and warned of the grave consequences of such incidents.
Turkish PM says Iran gas supply to resume by Monday
Reuters: Iran’s supply of natural gas to Turkey, halted this week, will resume on Monday at the latest, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday after talking to Iranian officials.
U.N. watchdog chief seeks nuclear clarity in Iran trip
Reuters: The U.N. nuclear watchdog chief heads for Iran on Thursday to push for full transparency over its past and present atomic activity amid simmering U.S.-Iranian tensions after a naval incident in the Gulf.
Iran’s provocation
Wall Street Journal: “It was a dangerous gesture,” said President George W. Bush about Sunday’s incident that involved five vessels, apparently under orders from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, harassing U.S. naval forces in international waters in the Straits of Hormuz. They broke off moments before the Americans opened fire.
The surge worked
Wall Street Journal: It was exactly one year ago tonight, in a televised address to the nation, that President George W. Bush announced his fateful decision to change course in Iraq, and to send five additional U.S. combat brigades there as part of a new counterinsurgency strategy and under the command of a new general, David Petraeus.
