New York Daily News: The Iranian companies that own a Midtown office tower worth more than $500 million must forfeit the building to people who successfully sued Iran for damages over terrorist attacks, including 9/11, a judge has ruled.
Iran loses Manhattan skyscraper to terror victims
Iran’s other nuclear timebomb
National Post: Except for a few concerned neighbours in the Gulf, nobody is really looking at the possible implications of a potential earthquake in Bushehr, where Iran’s oldest and main nuclear plant is located.
Yemen president urges Iran to stop interference: newspaper
Reuters: Yemen’s president called on Iran to stop supporting separatists in the south and religious groups in the north of the Arabian peninsula country, which is trying to stabilize after more than two years of political upheaval.
Former U.S. hostages angry about new Iran U.N. envoy appointee
Reuters: Former U.S. embassy workers held hostage in Iran from 1979 to 1981 are outraged that Tehran has selected a new U.N. envoy who may have played a role in the 444-day crisis and want him barred from U.S. territory.
Iran former chief rabbi Yousef Hamadani Cohen dies
AP: Yousef Hamadani Cohen, Iran’s former chief rabbi and one of the cornerstones of its tiny Jewish community, has died. He was 98. Rabbi Cohen died on Friday and was buried on Sunday.
Iran pokes a finger in Obama’s eye
American Thinker: Obama’s rapprochement policy toward Iran has worked out almost as well for him as ObamaCare, except that ObamaCare doesn’t threaten to use nuclear weapons.
Merchant ship shot at in Strait of Hormuz Sunday- NATO
Reuters: Unknown assailants in a speedboat shot at a merchant vessel as it sailed through the Strait of Hormuz between Iran and Oman on Sunday, the NATO Shipping Centre (NSC) said.
Obama’s wishful thinking about Iran nuclear threat
Chicago Sun-Times: In the Netherlands last week, President Barack Obama confessed a fear: “I continue to be much more concerned, when it comes to our security, with the prospect of a nuclear weapon going off in Manhattan.”
Iran names 1979 U.S. Embassy hostage-taker its UN envoy
Bloomberg: Iran has named a member of the militant group that held 52 Americans hostage in Tehran for 444 days to be its next ambassador to the United Nations. The Iranian government has applied for a U.S. visa for Hamid Aboutalebi.
Iran ‘destabilising actions’ source of concern: US
AFP: Iran and its “destabilising actions” in the Middle East remain a source of concern for Washington despite progress in negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear programme, a top US official said Friday.
