AP: China denied Thursday that it had provided the International Atomic Energy Agency with intelligence linked to Iran’s alleged attempts to make nuclear arms.
China: No Iran intelligence went to IAEA
China reveals Iran’s nuclear secrets to UN
Daily Telegraph: China has betrayed one its closest allies by providing the United Nations with intelligence on Iran’s efforts to acquire nuclear technology, diplomats have revealed.
The Second Iran-Iraq War
Wall Street Journal: Iran now causes the majority of the violence and instability in Iraq, a trend that began in July 2007, according to U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, when U.S. and Iraqi military offensives swept al Qaeda from its safe havens around Baghdad.
Israel: Iran has set up listening stations in Syria to intercept Israeli communications
AP: Iran has set up sophisticated listening stations in Syria in recent months to intercept Israeli military communications, according to Israeli security officials.
Global attitudes toward U.S. improve; Iran ranked worst in poll
Bloomberg: Attitudes toward U.S. influence on the world have improved in the past year, according to an annual survey of people in 34 countries. Iran scored worst in the poll.
Nuclear watchdog gets China’s Iran intel
AP: China has recently given the International Atomic Energy Agency intelligence about Iran’s nuclear program despite Beijing’s opposition to harsh U.N. Security Council sanctions on Tehran, according to diplomats familiar with the matter.
Treasury official calls Iran ‘central banker of terrorism’
FOX: A senior Treasury Department official called Iran “the central banker of terrorism” in testimony Tuesday before the Senate Finance Committee, but said the United States is succeeding in chasing money tied to the Al Qaeda terror group.
U.S. alarmed as some exports veer off course
New York Times: Roadside bombings of American troops in Iraq were occurring with unnerving regularity when military investigators made a disturbing discovery: American-made computer circuits sold to a trading company in the United Arab Emirates had turned up in the bomb detonators.
Tehran pushes to join Central Asian alliance
Washington Times: Seeking to break out of its diplomatic isolation, Iran has applied for full membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, an alliance dominated by China and Russia and seen as challenging U.S. security interests in Central Asia.
U.S. Treasury says top global banks shunning Iran
Reuters: The world’s top banks have largely stopped dealing with Iran in response to U.S. and U.N. sanctions, and industrialized countries are working on further steps to combat financing for weapons proliferation, a senior Treasury official said on Tuesday.
