The Daily Telegraph: GOOGLE says it has discovered and stopped a series of attempts to hack the accounts of tens of thousands of Iranian users in an effort the company believes is an attempt to influence the country’s upcoming election.
Google finds hack bids on eve of Iran poll
Iranian election a sham
The Hill: Suppose they held an election and nobody voted. This is not just wishful thinking; it happened in Iran. Despite the regime’s lies and propaganda, millions of Iranians who care about their country’s future refused to go to the polls.
New Iranian president tied to 1994 bombing
Washington Free Beacon: Iranian President-elect Hassan Rowhani was on the special Iranian government committee that plotted the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, according to an indictment by the Argentine government prosecutor investigating the case.
Mitsubishi-UFJ to pay $250 million to N.Y. regulator
Bloomberg: Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi-UFJ agreed to pay $250 million to the state of New York to settle claims it transferred billions of dollars for countries facing U.S. sanctions including Iran, Sudan and Myanmar, state regulators said.
US sees sanctions impact on Iranian politics
AP: American officials are hailing the election of an Iranian president who vows to seek relief from international sanctions as the first tangible evidence that the U.S. strategy is influencing Tehran’s nuclear policy.
Report: Iranian navy detains UAE fishermen
AP: Iran’s state TV says the country’s navy has detained 13 fishermen from two United Arab Emirates vessels after they trespassed into what the report said were Iranian territorial waters.
More EU pressure on Iran, Israel PM tells Ashton
AFP: Europe must take a firmer line with Iran over its controversial nuclear programme, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday at the start of a working meeting with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.
Iran and Hezbollah go global
Asia Times Online: The recent discovery in Nigeria of an arsenal with Hezbollah’s fingerprints all over it has reinforced the suspicion that Iran and the Party of God are extending their outreach while helping security forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
As sanctions bite, Iranians invest big in Georgia
Wall Street Journal: Economic sanctions against Iran have made it increasingly hard for Iranians to do business abroad. But Iranian businessmen are flocking to Georgia, a longtime U.S. ally in the Caucasus region, to pursue profits evaporating in much of the world.
New Iranian president’s son committed suicide over father’s extremism
Front Page Magazine: The news is full of cheerful reports that Iran new clerical president Hassan Rouhani is a “moderate”. Since Hassan Rouhani was really chosen by the clerical regime, rather than the voters, as the last election should have made clear, Hassan Rouhani’s supposed moderation doesn’t matter.
