Reuters: Iran and Iraq have begun talks to try to resolve a dispute over an inactive oil well in a sensitive area along the nearly 1,500-km border between the two countries, their foreign ministers said on Thursday.
Iraq, Iran start talks on disputed border area
Steady drip of leaks corrodes the core of the Iranian regime
New York Times: Beatings, arrests, show trials and even killings have failed to discourage Iranians from taking to the streets in protest.
Revolt brews in Iran
Washington Times: As Iranian protests continue, just over a week after the mass protests that took place throughout Iran on the Shi'ite festival of Ashura, the Iranian regime, severely wounded, has set about trying to quell the violence with a brutal crackdown.
Iran posts banned websites list in cyber crackdown: report
AFP: The Iranian judicial authorities have published a long list of banned Internet websites in a new crackdown on online networks, including those deemed immoral, the press reported on Thursday.
Rights group: Iran jails most journalists
CNN: Iran once again has more journalists in jail than any other country, the press freedom group Reporters Without Borders announced Wednesday.
Iran shielding its nuclear efforts in maze of tunnels
New York Times: Last September, when Iran’s uranium enrichment plant buried inside a mountain near the holy city of Qum was revealed, the episode cast light on a wider pattern: Over the past decade, Iran has quietly hidden an increasingly large part of its atomic complex in networks of tunnels and bunkers across the country.
Iran diplomat quits over protests: report
Reuters: A diplomat at the Iranian embassy in Oslo told Norwegian broadcaster NRK on Wednesday that he has resigned in protest over a crackdown on anti-government demonstrators in Iran.
Taiwan firm put on watch list after sales to Iran
AFP: Taiwan has placed a local company on a watch list after the firm sold specialised equipment to Iran, an official said on Wednesday.
China rules out new U.N. sanctions on Iran for now
Reuters: China's U.N. ambassador on Tuesday dashed Western hopes for a swift agreement on a fourth round of U.N. sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, saying the issue requires more "time and patience."
Earthquake jolts mid-south Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 05 – An earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale struck areas of Baravat in the southern province of Kerman, state media reported.
