AP: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Iran’s foreign minister Sunday on the sidelines of a security conference in Germany, pressing Iran to abide by the commitments it has already made ahead of new negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear program.
Kerry meets with Iranian foreign minister
Iran gets first instalment of frozen assets
AFP: Iran has received the first instalment of $4.2 billion in frozen assets as part of a nuclear deal with world powers, Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi told ISNA news agency Saturday.
It’s Howard Dean vs. Obama on Iran
Washington Post: Former Vermont governor Howard Dean surprised and delighted critics of President Obama’s Iran policy with the most cogent and forceful criticism of the interim deal from any Democrat to date.
Islamist state of Iran: leader in human rights violation
Front Page: The Iranian military published a flimsy and unsubstantiated 28-page report this week criticizing human rights in the United States. Intriguingly, the report was supported by the Basij, a militia governmental group that is a leader in human rights violations.
Senate is right to not trust Iran in nuke ‘deal’
NJ.com: I was so shocked at the recent deal Iran brokered with world powers. It is a betrayal of international law, it sends a message of weakness and it makes the chances of an unthinkably terrible conflict far more likely.
The Iranian threat & Obama’s deception
Front Page: Obama made the following patently false claim about the implementation of the interim agreement: ”As we gather here tonight, Iran has begun to eliminate its stockpile of higher levels of enriched uranium.” Iran has not eliminated anything.
Hard-line Iran website publishes names of fighters killed in Syria
Al-Monitor: While Iranian officials have admitted to having sent “advisers” into Syria, that Iran has active fighters is addressed only when the hard-line media mention that a fighter has been killed in Syria.
Iran’s severe water shortage may lead to rationing
Fox News: Iran is facing a water shortage so severe residents of the capital Tehran and other major cities may face rationing in the coming year. Nowhere is the shortage more apparent than in western Lake Urmia—once Iran’s largest lake.
Are Syria, Iran playing Obama for a fool?
CNN: Remember Syria’s chemical weapons? All of the “priority one” the most dangerous of those weapons, were supposed to be gone by December 31 last year. They’re not. Almost all of them — more than 95% — are still in Syria.
UK Parliamentary delegation urges caution and realism on Iran
Huffington Post: Of course Rouhani is Iran’s current Ayatollah-sanctioned President and should have every good reason to be at such a prestigious forum; however the man addressing Davos appeared only to share the real Rouhani’s appearance.
