AP: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says it has begun a two-day land military exercise to upgrade its capabilities to defend the country against possible external threats.
Iran’s Guard begins new land military exercises
Execution of web programmer in Iran may be imminent
CNN: A computer programmer from Canada faces imminent execution in Iran for the actions of another person, which he had no control over, a human rights group says.
Iran poised for big nuke jump
AP: Iran is poised to greatly expand uranium enrichment at a fortified underground bunker to a point that would boost how quickly it could make nuclear warheads, diplomats tell The Associated Press.
Israeli attack on Iran ’not prudent’: Depmsey
Bloomberg:An Israeli attack on Iran would be “destabilizing,” the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. Army General Martin Dempsey, said.
Bangkok says explosives expert among suspects in bomb plot
WSJ: Thai police said one of several missing suspects in a botched bomb plot that rattled Bangkok earlier this week is a 52-year-old man who might have served as an explosives training expert to help aid the strike aimed at Israeli diplomats in the city.
Nuclear talks may resume with Iran
UPI: U.S. and European officials signaled that negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program may resume for the first time in over a year.
First exiles to leave Iraq’s Camp Ashraf slam new site
CNN: About 400 members of an exiled Iranian opposition group who are the first to leave a long-term camp in Iraq under a U.N. plan criticized their treatment and the conditions at the new temporary site Saturday.
32 stand trial over Iran’s biggest bank fraud
AP: A Tehran court began hearing the trial of 32 defendants Saturday in a $2.6 billion bank fraud described as the biggest financial scam in the country’s history, state TV reported.
Iran warships ‘enter the Mediterranean’
AFP: Iranian warships entered the Mediterranean after crossing the Suez Canal on Saturday to show Tehran’s “might” to regional states, the navy commander said, at a time of simmering tensions with Israel.
400 Iran exiles reluctantly move to new Iraq home
AP: Lugging clothes, tables and whatever else they could carry, roughly 400 members of an Iranian exile group reluctantly moved Saturday from their camp in northwestern Iraq to a deserted military base outside the capital in what they called a show of good faith that they eventually will be allowed to leave the country peacefully.
