Wall Street Journal: An eight-year investigation by an Argentine prosecutor into the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires—where 85 people died—has led to a very different conclusion about Iran’s global agenda.
Uncovering Iran’s Latin networks
Iranian presidential candidate’s staff arrested: report
Reuters: Members of a moderate Iranian presidential candidate’s campaign team were arrested on Saturday, an opposition website said, after a rally in which he criticized heightened security measures in the country.
Report: Iran president has helicopter ‘incident’
AP: Iran’s official news agency says Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s helicopter experienced an unspecified “incident” while touring a rural area, but the Iranian president’s pilot landed the aircraft safely and the leader was unhurt.
Brash Iran campaign stirs echoes of Ahmadinejad
AP: Iranians have seen it before: A youngish presidential candidate firing up crowds with fist-waving rants against the West, then displaying his Islamist bona fides with courtesy calls to hard-line clerics.
Report: Afghan Taliban delegation visits Iran
AP: A semi-official Iranian news agency says Tehran has hosted a delegation of the Afghan Taliban, the radical Sunni group that has long been a sworn enemy of Iran’s ruling Shiite clerics.
Report: Afghan Taliban delegation visits Iran
AP: A semi-official Iranian news agency says Tehran has hosted a delegation of the Afghan Taliban, the radical Sunni group that has long been a sworn enemy of Iran’s ruling Shiite clerics.
US puts sanctions on top aide of Iran’s ayatollah
AP: The U.S. issued sanctions against Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s deputy chief of staff and more than 50 other Iranian government officials for alleged human rights abuses, while making it easier for Americans to export advanced communications equipment to Iranian civilians.
Iran amends law on stoning for adultery
AFP: Iran has amended its internationally condemned law on stoning convicted adulterers to death to allow judges to impose a different form of execution, according to the revision seen by AFP on Thursday.
US fines Total $398 mn over bribes in Iran
AFP: French oil giant Total agreed Wednesday to pay US authorities $398.2 million to settle charges that it bribed officials in Iran to secure oil and gas concessions.
US: Iran support for global terror surged in 2012
AP: Iran last year boosted its support for global terrorism to levels not seen for two decades, the Obama administration said Thursday as it released its annual report on international trends in extremist violence.
