Reuters: The U.S. Justice Department and other authorities have stepped up investigations into several large European banks for violating sanctions against Iran, Libya, Cuba and Sudan, the Financial Times reported in its online edition.
U.S. authorities step up probes of European banks: report
IOC to shelve Iran investment plans
UPI: State-run Indian Oil Corp. plans to shelve its proposed $5 billion to 7 billion investment plan to set up an integrated liquefied natural gas project in Iran.
Senior Iranian envoy warns new U.N. sanctions would end Tehran’s nuclear cooperation
AP: A senior Iranian envoy warned the United States and its allies on Wednesday against pushing for new U.N. Security Council sanctions against his country, suggesting Tehran could retaliate by ending cooperation with U.N. experts probing its nuclear program.
European lawmakers chide Iran for attack on Iraqi Kurds
Iran Focus: London, Aug. 29 A group of prominent European lawmakers chided Iran on Wednesday for repeatedly shelling parts of Iraqi Kurdistan near the Iran-Iraq border.
European lawmakers chide Iran for attack on Iraqi Kurds
Iran Focus: London, Aug. 29 A group of prominent European lawmakers chided Iran on Wednesday for repeatedly shelling parts of Iraqi Kurdistan near the Iran-Iraq border.
Iran protests U.S. detentions in Iraq
AP: Iran on Wednesday summoned the Swiss diplomat representing American interests here to protest the U.S. forces’ detention in Baghdad of eight Iranians, including two diplomats, the Foreign Ministry said.
Iran to expand Senegal refinery, sell it oil
Reuters: Iran’s national oil company will take a stake in Senegal’s state-owned refinery and sell the West African country a year’s supply of crude oil on preferential credit terms, Senegal’s energy ministry said.
Bush warns of ‘holocaust’ if Iran gets nukes
AFP: US President George W. Bush raised the specter of a “nuclear holocaust” in the Middle East if Iran gets atomic weapons, and vowed he would not let that happen.
Iran forces lecturers to disclose all foreign trips
The Guardian: University lecturers in Iran are to be forced to tell security authorities of all foreign trips in advance in a move aimed at preventing them from being recruited as western spies.
Coalition detains highly-sought facilitator of Iranian weapons
Iran Focus: London, Aug. 29 U.S.-led troops captured a highly-sought facilitator of Iranian weapons in a pre-dawn raid in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Tuesday, the Coalition announced.
