AP: Buoyed by a legal victory in Britain, an Iranian opposition coalition urged the European Union on Tuesday to remove its largest group from a list of terrorist organizations.
EU urged to remove People’s Mujahedeen of Iran from list of terrorists
China denies selling J-10 fighter jets to Iran – Xinhua
Iran Focus: London, Dec. 18 – China on Tuesday denied reports that it had sold J-10 fighter jets to Iran, the official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported.
China denies selling J-10 fighter jets to Iran – Xinhua
Iran Focus: London, Dec. 18 – China on Tuesday denied reports that it had sold J-10 fighter jets to Iran, the official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported.
Wife of missing American arrives in Iran
AFP: The wife of an ex-FBI agent who the United States says disappeared in Iran this year arrived in Tehran on Tuesday seeking to find information about her missing husband, an AFP correspondent reported.
Major powers postpone consultations over Iran sanctions: US
AFP: The major powers debating a draft resolution for tougher sanctions over Iran’s disputed nuclear program postponed consultations they had planned for Tuesday, the US State Department said.
Keep Iran nuke-free
New York Sun: When a new National Intelligence Estimate reverses key judgments of previous assessments, there is a natural temptation to begin overhauling U.S. policy. Perhaps our Iran policy should be adjusted in light of last week’s new NIE. But before concluding wholesale changes are in order, we should evaluate what has changed and what remains the same.
Iran sees Bushehr plant working fully in one year: official
AFP: Iran expects its first nuclear power plant will produce electricity at full capacity in around a year after passing a “critical stage” with the delivery of fuel from Russia, a top official said.
Iran’s actions in Iraq scrutinized
Wall Street Journal: A Pentagon report will accuse Iran of continuing to funnel weapons and training personnel into Iraq, adding fuel to a heated debate among U.S. policy makers about whether Iran deserves any credit for the steep declines in Iraq’s once-unrelenting violence.
Syrian and Iranian axis terrorize their opposition
Counterterrorism – By Walid Phares: While Petrodollars Propaganda showers networks in the Middle East, Europe and North America to weaken democracies’ resolve to confront the Iranian and Syrian regimes and as “lobbies” in the West accelerate the campaign to break the isolation of Damascus and Tehran, these two regimes turned against their opposition in several attempts to crush them as long as the “window of opportunity is open” according to insiders.
Iran receives nuclear fuel in blow to U.S.
New York Times: The United States lost a years-long battle when Russia delivered nuclear fuel on Monday for an Iranian power plant that is at the center of an international dispute over Irans nuclear program. Iran, for its part, rejected the idea that the delivery might mean it no longer needed to do its own uranium enrichment to make fuel, citing work on a second power plant.
