AFP: Iran on Wednesday said that it had seized four million litres of illicit booze during the last Iranian year, ending March 2007, the ISNA news agency reported.
U.S. enlists others to help find ex-FBI agent in Iran
Reuters: The United States said on Wednesday it is asking other countries to help find out what may have happened to a former FBI agent missing in Iran.
Watchdog: Iran moves ahead nuke program
AP: Iran has started enriching small amounts of uranium gas at its underground nuclear plant and is running more than 1,300 of the centrifuges used in the process, according to a U.N. nuclear watchdog document obtained Wednesday.
Signs point to Iran’s “unhealthy” Afghan role: U.S.
Reuters: Iran may be becoming involved in Afghanistan in an “unhealthy way”, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday, pointing to signs of Iranian arms supplies to the Taliban and other contacts.
Iran making nuclear fuel in underground plant: IAEA
Reuters: Iran has begun producing nuclear fuel in its underground uranium enrichment plant, a confidential U.N. atomic watchdog document said on Wednesday, ratcheting up its defiance of the United Nations.
Iran FM holds talks in Syria
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 18 – Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki arrived on Tuesday in Damascus, where he met and held talks with his Syrian counterpart Walid al-Moallem, state media reported on Wednesday.
Iran FM holds talks in Syria
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 18 – Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki arrived on Tuesday in Damascus, where he met and held talks with his Syrian counterpart Walid al-Moallem, state media reported on Wednesday.
Jailed Swedes return home from Iran
AFP: Two Swedish nationals arrived home Tuesday, a day after Iran unexpectedly released them after jailing them last year for espionage.
Russia unable to finish Iranian nuclear plant by 2007 deadline
AFP: Russian nuclear contractor Atomstroiexport cannot complete work on Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant this year due to a cash crunch and technical problems, a senior Russian official said Tuesday.
U.S. links Iran to arms in Afghanistan
Los Angeles Times: U.S.-led coalition forces in southern Afghanistan recently intercepted Iranian-made weapons that were being shipped to fighters for the Taliban, historically regional rivals of Tehran, the Pentagon’s top general said Tuesday.
