AFP: Iran's ambassador to the IAEA said on Wednesday that Tehran had dropped its bid for a seat on the board of the UN atomic watchdog in favour of a place for regional ally Syria, state-run television has reported.
Iran drops IAEA seat nomination for Syria
Khamenei: Iran won’t let Palestinians be alone
AP: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says Iran will stand beside the Hamas government in Gaza and that Israel is weakening and on the path to eventual destruction.
Iran poses biggest threat to Iraq’s stability, Pentagon says
Bloomberg: Iranian support for Shiite militia groups poses the biggest threat to long-term stability in Iraq, where recent improvements in security are "fragile," the U.S. Defense Department said.
In Iran, 3 degrees of separation from truth
New York Times: Iran’s interior minister admitted Tuesday that a doctorate he said he had earned from Oxford was a fake, and said that he was pressing charges against an intermediary who had forged it without his knowledge.
Ahmadinejad’s evil words aren’t just talk
Los Angeles Times: We Americans are accustomed to regarding political rhetoric much as Dr. Johnson did epitaphs. "They are not," he wrote, "given under oath."
Why are the Revolutionary Guards running Iran’s ICBM program?
UPI: It is highly significant that Iran's missile program is under the control of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard — Pasdaran — the most loyal element of the regime, which combines internal secret police and external intelligence and shock troop functions.
Mysterious cargo aboard Iranian ship seized by pirates raises WMD concerns
FOX News: As Somali pirates brazenly maintain their standoff with American warships off the coast of Africa, the cargo aboard one Iranian ship they commandeered is raising concerns that it may contain materials that can be used for chemical or biological weapons.
Lawmakers want probe of US exports to Iran
AP: Two House Democrats are asking congressional investigators to examine U.S. exports to Iran to see whether approval procedures are being abused in light of a dramatic increase in the dollar value of shipments there over President Bush's first seven years in office.
Iran may limit IAEA access to nuclear sites: MP
AFP: Iran's parliament may limit the UN watchdog's inspections of the country's nuclear sites following a new UN resolution against Tehran over its atomic programme, a senior Iranian MP said on Tuesday.
Iran minister admits holding fake Oxford degree
AFP: Iran's Interior Minister Ali Kordan has admitted to holding a fake Oxford University degree which he thought was valid, coming clean after weeks of controversy, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
