AP: A semi-official Iranian news agency says the military has test-fired four missiles during a military drill in the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
Iran test-fires missiles designed to hit warships
Iran ayatollah is poster boy for influence in Iraq
AP: After years of growing influence, a new sign of Iran’s presence in Iraq has hit the streets. Thousands of signs, that is, depicting Iran’s supreme leader gently smiling to a population once mobilized against the Islamic Republic in eight years of war.
Syria and Iran crises weigh over UN gathering
AFP: Fears that the Syrian civil war and the Iranian nuclear stand-off could provoke wider international conflict dominated the debate on Monday as world leaders arrived for the UN General Assembly.
Iran says new drone can cover much of region
AP: A senior Iranian commander says the country’s newly-produced missile-carrying drone has a range of 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles), which puts much of the Middle East within operating distance of Iranian territory.
Iran pulls movie from Oscars race over US anti-Islam film
AFP: Iran announced on Monday it was yanking its entry in the Oscars race because of the “intolerable insult” of the US-made anti-Islam film that has angered Muslims in several countries.
Seeing light at the end of the tunnel for Iranian people
Daily Mail: It’s been a long time in coming, but the decision that the Iranian Resistance has been waiting many years for has finally been made: The U.S. State Department is going to remove the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK) from its list of foreign terrorist organisations.
In New York, defiant Ahmadinejad says Israel will be “eliminated”
Reuters: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday disregarded a U.N. warning to avoid incendiary rhetoric and declared ahead of the annual General Assembly session that Israel has no roots in the Middle East and would be “eliminated.”
U.S. clears path for more sanctions on Iran oil deals
Reuters: The U.S. government officially linked Iran’s state oil company to the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Monday, a determination that enables Washington to apply new sanctions on foreign banks dealing with the company.
Ex-Iran president’s son returns from exile, faces charges
Reuters: The son of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani returned to Iran from exile to answer charges of inciting unrest after a disputed election in 2009, fuelling speculation that Rafsanjani’s influence in Tehran may once again be growing.
U.S. is said to link Iran’s oil company to Revolutionary Guard
Bloomberg: The Obama administration will today report that Iran’s state-owned oil company is linked to a military unit sanctioned for weapons proliferation, terrorism and human-rights abuses, according to a U.S. official involved in the finding.
