AP: A top conservative cleric close to Iran's supreme leader criticized the economic policies of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, saying they threaten to keep Iran from its goal of becoming a regional superpower by 2025.
Iranian conservative attacks president on economy
Cold season will push up oil price – Iran
Reuters: Iran's oil minister suggested on Sunday crude at $100 a barrel was the lowest appropriate level but said factors like the approaching cold season would push up demand and prices, an Oil Ministry website reported.
Top Woolworths investor says no to £50m takeover offer
Sunday Times: Woolworths' biggest shareholder has thrown his weight behind management in rejecting Malcolm Walker’s £50m takeover approach, while refusing to deny that he is planning his own bid for the struggling retailer.
Russia threatens to supply Iran with top new missile system as ‘cold war’ escalates
Sunday Telegraph: Russia is deploying the threat to sell a "game changing" air defence system to Iran as a high stakes bargaining chip in its new "cold war" with America, The Sunday Telegraph has learned.
Iran warns any attack would start ‘world war’
AFP: A senior military commander warned on Saturday that any attack on Iran would start a new world war, as Tehran pressed on with its controversial nuclear drive despite the risk of further UN sanctions.
Iran corroborates U.N. nuclear monitor’s estimate of centrifuges in operation
Washington Post: Iran is using 4,000 centrifuges to enrich uranium and plans to install an additional 3,000 of the devices, Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Reza Sheikh Attar said Thursday in an interview on Iranian state television.
Bolivian president leaves on Libya, Iran trip
AFP: Bolivia's leftwing president, Evo Morales, left Friday on a trip to Libya and Iran to reinforce new diplomatic ties made with those two countries, officials said.
Ex-Tenn. professor denies he violated secrets law
AP: A retired University of Tennessee professor accused of passing secrets from his work on a U.S. Air Force contract to two foreign graduate students testified Friday that he didn't break the law because he hadn't even proven that his research worked.
Iran: new strides in uranium enrichment
AP: Iran has increased the number of operating centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant to 4,000, a top official said Friday, pushing ahead with the nuclear program despite threats of new U.N. sanctions.
Report: 4,000 centrifuges in Iran nuclear program
AP: Iran's official IRNA news agency says the government now has nearly 4,000 centrifuges operating in its uranium enrichment plant.
