Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 15 Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused the United States and Britain of deliberately fomenting unrest in Iraq.
Irans Supreme Leader accuses U.S. of fomenting unrest in Iraq
Irans Supreme Leader accuses U.S. of fomenting unrest in Iraq
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 15 Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused the United States and Britain of deliberately fomenting unrest in Iraq.
Iran threatens to limit nuclear inspection if sanctioned
AFP: A heavyweight Iranian lawmaker warned Sunday Tehran would limit inspections by the UN of its nuclear sites if slapped with sanctions over its atomic program, the student ISNA agency reported.
Germany to Iran: It’s not too late to avoid sanctions
Reuters: Germany’s foreign minister told Iran on Saturday it was not too late to avoid sanctions and urged the Islamic republic to return to negotiations over its nuclear programme.
A feared force roils business in Iran
Wall Street Journal: Early one morning in August, a pair of Iranian military vessels pulled up alongside the Orizont, a Romanian oil rig working in waters off the coast of Iran. Armed men jumped out and clambered up one leg of the drilling platform.
Norway’s Statoil is fined by SEC over Iran affair
Wall Street Journal: The Securities and Exchange Commission and Justice Department levied a $21 million fine against Norwegian oil company Statoil ASA for a payment it made in 2002 to win development of a critical Iranian petroleum project.
US ambassador says Syria and Iran back Iraq rebels
AFP: The US ambassador to Iraq on Thurday accused Iran and Syria of using “Iraqis as cannon fodder” and of fuelling a wave of violence designed to divide Iraq and leave it powerless.
Germany has no objection to UN intervention on Iran: FM
AFP: German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday said the path was clear for the UN Security Council to intervene in the standoff over Iran’s nuclear programme.
Iran refuses to free westerners, France says
AFP: Iran has refused to grant conditional freedom to a French and a German citizen who were jailed for 18 months in January for entering waters claimed by Iran, the French foreign ministry said Friday.
Iran targets Iraqi nationalists
Iran Focus: London, Oct. 13 A prominent Iraqi politician was gunned down along with 10 of his aides on Thursday in a television station in eastern Baghdad by gunmen wearing police uniforms.
