AFP: Iran’s exiled opposition on Wednesday launched a campaign to have France and the European Union grant it the same recognition they have accorded to the Syrian coalition battling to overthrow Bashar al-Assad.
Iranian opposition seeks Syria-style recognition
Iran quake kills five in rural area: emergency official
AFP: Five people were killed Wednesday and at least a dozen injured in a moderate earthquake that struck eastern Iran near the Afghan border, a provincial emergency official said.
How foreign firms tried to sell spy gear to Iran
Reuters: Documents seen by Reuters show that a partner of China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd offered to sell a Huawei-developed “Lawful Interception Solution” to MobinNet, Iran’s first nationwide wireless broadband provider, just as MobinNet was preparing to launch in 2010.
It is time for Western Governments to raise their voices against the Iranian regime’s human rights abuses
Daily Mail: The Iranian regime continues to be the focus of much discussion and debate, yet little attention is being paid to the internal dynamics of Iran; particularly its brutal crackdown on dissidents and its appalling human rights record.
White House: no evidence Iran drone claim is true
AFP: “We have no evidence that the Iranian claims you cite are true,” White House spokesman Jay Carney told a reporter, when asked about Tehran’s claims it had captured intact a US drone that penetrated its airspace over Gulf waters.
UN rights chief urges Iran to ease up on dissident
AP: The U.N.’s top human rights official is urging Iran to improve conditions for a jailed human rights activist who has been on hunger strike since mid-October.
Imprisoned Iranian lawyer ends hunger strike-website
Reuters: Imprisoned Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh ended her nearly 50-day long hunger strike on Tuesday, an opposition website said, after authorities lifted a ban on her young daughter travelling abroad.
Swedish man charged for violating Iran sanctions
AP: A Swedish man has been charged with breaking international sanctions against Iran after allegedly trying to export advanced technical material typically used in uranium enrichment activities, officials said Tuesday.
Iran ‘captures’ US drone over Gulf waters: Guards
AFP: Iran has “captured” an unmanned US drone over Gulf waters after it entered Iranian airspace, the Revolutionary Guards said in a statement on Tuesday.
US weighing military options if Syria uses WMD
AP: U.S. intelligence officials also intercepted one communication within the last six months they believe was between Iran’s infamous Quds Force, urging Syrian regime members to use its supplies of toxic Sarin gas against rebels and the civilians supporting them in the besieged city of Homs, a former U.S. official said.
