Reuters: Oil rebounded on Friday as worries over Iran’s nuclear row with the West resurfaced, after prices slumped to the lowest level in nearly two months on healthy fuel stocks in top consumer the United States.
Oil picks up on Iran after slump on high US stocks
Bus crash leaves 17 Iranians dead in Turkey
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 18 – At least 17 Iranians were killed and 26 others injured on Friday when their bus collided with a truck in eastern Turkey, the official news agency IRNA reported.
Bus crash leaves 17 Iranians dead in Turkey
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 18 – At least 17 Iranians were killed and 26 others injured on Friday when their bus collided with a truck in eastern Turkey, the official news agency IRNA reported.
Iran suspected of attempts to rearm Hezbollah since cease-fire
FOX News: Iran has been attempting to rearm the Lebanon-based terror network Hezbollah since the U.N.-backed cease-fire between Hezbollah and Israel took hold earlier this week, two U.S. officials told FOX News on Thursday.
Kurds flee homes as Iran shells Iraq’s northern frontier
The Guardian: Turkey and Iran have dispatched tanks, artillery and thousands of troops to their frontiers with Iraq during the past few weeks in what appears to be a coordinated effort to disrupt the activities of Kurdish rebel bases. Scores of Kurds have fled their homes in the northern frontier region after four days of shelling by the Iranian army.
Clever moves may become a dangerous game for Iran
The Times: The Lebanon crisis has turned up the heat even further in the worlds standoff with Iran over its nuclear ambitions. This week has brought new signs that Tehran wont back down.
‘Victory’ over Israel aided by Iran and Syria: Hezbollah
AFP: Iran and Syria helped radical Lebanese group Hezbollah’s “victory” over Israel, a member of the political council of Hezbollah said in an interview published Thursday in Russian daily Izvestia.
U.S. predicts fast action at U.N. if sanctions on Iran are needed
New York Times: A senior Bush administration official said Thursday that he anticipated that the United Nations would move rapidly in September to impose sanctions on Iran if it refused to halt uranium enrichment, a process central to building nuclear weapons.
Iranian planes grounded in Turkey for weapons search
AFP: Turkey has grounded two Syria-bound Iranian planes over the past month to search for weapons following Israeli intelligence that Iran is supplying rockets to Hezbollah, officials and media reports said Thursday.
US to press for quick UN sanctions if Iran refuses halt to uranium enrichment
AFP: The United States will move quickly for UN Security Council action on sanctions against Iran if Tehran refuses to halt uranium enrichment by the end of the month, a senior State Deparment official said Thursday.
