AFP: The US Treasury’s mounting financial sanctions against Iranian companies tied to alleged nuclear activities and terror funding are effective and bearing fruit, the Treasury’s top anti-terrorism official, Stuart Levey, said Thursday.
US Treasury’s Levey says Iran sanctions bearing fruit
Russia blames late payments for Iran reactor delay
Reuters: Moscow has delayed the start-up of Iran’s first nuclear power station to 2008 because Tehran has fallen behind with payments for the Bushehr plant, a top Russian official said on Thursday.
Candidates see Iran nuclear threat
Reuters: U.S. presidential candidates agree Iran should not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons but at this point in the 2008 campaign, their prescriptions for preventing such an outcome are vague.
Iran ‘training Iraqi mortar men’
BBC: Militias firing rockets and mortars on Baghdad’s heavily protected Green Zone have become more accurate because of training in Iran, the US military says.
More accurate Green Zone attacks aided by Iran: U.S.
Reuters: Militia crews firing mortars and rockets have been hitting Baghdad’s heavily protected Green Zone with more accuracy in the past three months because of training from Iran, a top U.S. general said on Thursday.
Empowering the democratic opposition in Iran
The Hill – By Dick Armey: During the Cold War, the free world was threatened by a nuclear-armed state based on a radical, all-encompassing and discredited ideology, a regime that projected an aggressive agenda of global domination even as it struggled to keep its own dissatisfied citizens in line back home.
US pension funds ask Shell to scrap £5bn Iran project
The Times: Shell is coming under intense pressure to scrap a £5 billion natural gas project in Iran after a call from a group of leading US pension funds for energy companies around the world to cut their ties with the Middle Eastern state.
Iranian sceptics scorn ‘Braveheart’ Premier
The Scotsman: A hardline Iranian newspaper has criticised Gordon Brown after the Prime Minister refused to rule out using military action to curb Iran’s nuclear programme.
Iran says it will never stop nuclear activities
Reuters: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday Iran would never yield to international pressure to suspend its uranium enrichment work.
Two quakes jolt southern Iran province
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 25 Two earthquakes struck the province of Hormozgan, southern Iran, on Monday and Tuesday, state media reported.
