Reuters: Iranian police have detained two women’s rights campaigners and accused them of spreading propaganda against the Islamic state, a fellow activist said on Saturday.
Iran detains two women rights campaigners: activist
Iranian MPs approve $3 bln fuel import budget
AFP: Iran’s parliament on Saturday approved a three-billion-dollar spending plan to fund diesel and petrol imports during the next Iranian year, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Syria denies joint Iran investigation
AP: Syria denied Iranian claims that the two countries would conduct a joint investigation into the assassination of a top Hezbollah commander, the Syrian state news agency reported.
Iran may sell oil in rubles to break ‘dollar slavery’
Bloomberg: Iran, the world’s fourth-largest oil producer, may use the Russian ruble in trading on its new oil exchange, the country’s ambassador to Moscow said.
2 Congressmen probe Iranian links to U.S.-supported World Bank fund
FOX News: Two congressmen have asked the Justice Department to review of U.S. Treasury-supported fund being used to underwrite an Iranian plastic-making operation.
Food company sues Treasury over exporting ban to Iran
Washington Times: An international food company is pushing ahead with a legal challenge questioning how the Treasury Department decides whether companies can do businesses in Iran.
Iran’s repressed Turkmen minority
VOA – Editorial: Human rights monitors are concerned over the reported detention of hundreds of ethnic Turkmen by Iranian authorities. The detentions followed the killing of an ethnic Turkmen fisherman, Husamettin Khadivar, by Iranian maritime security officers on December 28th.
Iran, Syria probe Mughniyeh killing
AP: Syria and Iran will conduct a joint investigation into the car bombing that killed Imad Mughniyeh, a commander of their Lebanese ally Hezbollah, Iran’s state news agency reported Friday.
Iran pleads case before anti-money laundering watchdog: US
AFP: Iran argued its case last month before an anti-money laundering watchdog that is urging Tehran to close loopholes in its financial system and limit terrorist financing, a US official said Friday.
U.S. says ready to resume talks with Iran on Iraq
Reuters: The United States is ready to resume talks with Iran on improving security in Iraq, a senior U.S. official said on Friday, but he accused Tehran of arming and training radical Iraqi Shi’ite fighters.
