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.
A feared force roils business in Iran
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.
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.
Senior Democrats Iran visit raises eyebrows
Iran Focus: London, Oct. 13 – A five-day visit to Iran earlier this month by a senior Clinton administration official has fuelled rumours among Iranian political pundits that some Democratic Party leaders may be attempting to establish unofficial channels of communication with Tehran in a bid to outmanoeuvre the Bush administration in its handling of the thorny issue of Iran.
Senior Democrats Iran visit raises eyebrows
Iran Focus: London, Oct. 13 – A five-day visit to Iran earlier this month by a senior Clinton administration official has fuelled rumours among Iranian political pundits that some Democratic Party leaders may be attempting to establish unofficial channels of communication with Tehran in a bid to outmanoeuvre the Bush administration in its handling of the thorny issue of Iran.
EU to declare nuclear talks with Iran over: diplomat
AFP: EU foreign ministers are to formally end negotiations with Tehran over Iran’s nuclear ambitions at talks in Luxembourg on Tuesday because of a “lack of results”, a European diplomat said Friday.
