AP: Iraq’s foreign minister says Iran is punishing the Kurdish region for something the Kurdish authorities were not responsible for the arrest of an Iranian official by the U.S. military on Sept. 20.
Iraq official critical of Iranian move
Iran MPs brand US Army, CIA as ‘terrorist’
AFP: Iranian MPs on Saturday branded the US Army and the Central Intelligence Agency as terrorist, hitting back at US lawmakers’ designation of the elite Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization.
Iran says nuclear cooperation to prevent new sanctions
AFP: Iran said on Sunday it would press on with its intensified cooperation with the UN nuclear agency to prevent the imposition of further Security Council sanctions over its contested nuclear programme.
Iran labels CIA ‘terrorist organization’
AP: Iran’s parliament voted Saturday to designate the CIA and the U.S. Army as “terrorist organizations,” a largely symbolic response to a U.S. Senate resolution seeking a similar designation for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
The long arm of Iran
Wall Street Journal: On March 17, 1992, a suicide bomber crashed an explosive-filled truck into a building filled with Israelis in Buenos Aires. The bombing was so powerful that the destruction covered several city blocks — 29 innocents were killed and hundreds more were injured. This occurred more than 8,000 miles from Tehran.
Iran could review economic ties with France
Reuters: Iran’s president has suggested the Islamic Republic could review economic ties with France after comments by French officials about the possibility of war over Tehran’s nuclear programme, state radio reported on Friday.
Iran, Pakistan agree over gas sales without India
Reuters: Pakistan has agreed to details of a deal for buying gas from Iran, officials from both sides said on Friday, adding that the proposed tri-nation pipeline would be viable even if India, the third party, walked out.
Split in group delays vote on sanctions against Iran
New York Times: The United States, Britain and France chose unity over speed and agreed on Friday to delay until November a United Nations Security Council vote on a third sanctions resolution against Iran.
Slight delay for Iran-Armenia pipeline
UPI: The deadline for the construction of the second phase of the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline has been delayed from late 2008 to January 2009.
Iran denies building new nuclear site
AFP: Iran denied on Friday claims by the countrys main opposition group that it is building a new bomb-proof underground site for developing nuclear weapons, linked by tunnel to an existing complex at Natanz.
