AFP: Iran renewed a ban on a moderate daily newspaper on Tuesday less than two months after allowing it to return to news stands, the paper’s director told the ISNA news agency.
Iran again bans moderate daily
Russia’s nuclear plant may not meet Iranian timeframe
AFP: Russia indicated Tuesday that a nuclear reactor plant it is constructing in Iran could not be completed in two months as expected by Tehran, citing “technical and economic questions.”
China urges diplomacy on Iran standoff
AP: China called Tuesday for stepped up diplomacy rather than new sanctions to try to persuade Iran to suspend uranium enrichment and rein in its nuclear program.
Iran, low on gasoline, to be supplied by Venezuela
New York Times: Venezuela agreed to sell Iran gasoline on Tuesday, less than a week after Iran unveiled a rationing program to limit its dependence on gasoline imports.
Iran sentences womens right activists to lashes, prison term
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 03 Irans judiciary has sentenced a womens right activist to lashes and prison time for taking part in an anti-government protest last year, state media reported.
Iran sentences womens right activists to lashes, prison term
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 03 Irans judiciary has sentenced a womens right activist to lashes and prison time for taking part in an anti-government protest last year, state media reported.
Petrol consumption down in Iran after rationing
AFP: The world’s fourth biggest oil producer Iran has successfully reduced petrol consumption after implementing a rationing scheme over angry protests, press reports said on Monday.
Venezuela agrees to sell gasoline to Iran: paper
Reuters: Venezuela has agreed to sell gasoline to Iran, which last week launched a delayed fuel rationing scheme, Venezuela’s energy minister said in remarks published on Tuesday.
Iran’s elite force is said to use Hezbollah as ‘proxy’ in Iraq
Washington Post: An American general said on Monday that Iraqi Shiite militiamen are being trained by Iranian security forces in cooperation with Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite movement, offering the most specific accusations to date of Iranian involvement in specific attacks against U.S. forces.
U.S. says Iran helped Iraqis kill five G.I.s
New York Times: Agents of Iran helped plan a January raid in Shiite holy city of Karbala in Iraq in which five American soldiers were killed by Islamic militants, an American military spokesman said Monday. The charge was the most specific allegation of Iranian involvement in an attack that killed American troops, at a time of rising tensions with Iran over its role in Iraq and its nuclear program.
