UPI: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Israel is an “enemy” created to “penetrate the heart of Muslim land.”
Iran president sees Israel ‘disappearing’
Russia’s nuclear chief to visit Iran on Dec 11
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 03 – The head of Russia’s atomic energy agency Sergei Kiriyenko will visit Iran on December 1, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini told reporters on Sunday.
Russia’s nuclear chief to visit Iran on Dec 11
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 03 – The head of Russia’s atomic energy agency Sergei Kiriyenko will visit Iran on December 1, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini told reporters on Sunday.
Iran official sees need for OPEC oil cut – agency
Reuters: Iran’s OPEC governor said on Sunday that the oil cartel needed to cut production further because of a slowdown in world economic growth and rising oil stocks, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Russia says six-party Iran talks to be held Tuesday
Reuters: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday six-party talks on Iran’s nuclear program would take place on Tuesday, swiftly reversing an earlier statement that the talks had been delayed.
Novelist Salman Rushdie says no longer fears Islamic death threat
AFP: British author Salman Rushdie no longer fears for his life because of the death threats issued against him by Islamic clerics in response to his book “The Satanic Verses” nearly 20 years ago, he said in comments published Saturday in Portugal.
Alcatel-Lucent’s Russo says no Iran business for her
Reuters: Patricia Russo, chief executive of the freshly merged Franco-U.S. group Alcatel-Lucent, will be barred, as a U.S. citizen, from doing business with Iran, she said on Friday.
Argentine judge: ex-Iran leader fugitive
AP: A court on Friday declared former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani and eight others fugitives from justice in Argentina, where they are wanted in connection with the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center.
Lavrov says Rice agreed in Hanoi to limit Iran sanctions at UN
Bloomberg: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice agreed with Russia during a meeting in Hanoi last month that the United Nations should limit sanctions on Iran to blocking access to nuclear weapons-related materials, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
FIFA chief expects Iran will meet reinstatement demands, avoid Asian Games expulsion
AP: The head of soccer’s world governing body expects Iran will meet FIFA’s requirements for full reinstatement in time to avoid any messy expulsion from the Asian Games.
