AKI: Up to 400 Iranian Kurds who belong to the Sunni faith have reportedly been arrested in the last three days in Saghez and other cities of Kurdistan province in the country’s north-west.
Iran: Hundreds of Iranian Kurds arrested in Sunni sweep
US welcomes global money-laundering task force action on Iran
AFP: The United States Friday welcomed action by an international anti-money laundering watchdog urging Iran to close loopholes in its financial system and take steps to limit terrorist financing.
World powers to meet in Berlin next week on Iran
Reuters: Senior officials from six world powers will meet in Berlin on Wednesday to discuss the showdown with Iran over its nuclear program, a diplomat said.
EU’s Solana set for fresh talks with Iran’s Larijani
Reuters: The European Union’s foreign policy chief may meet Iran’s senior nuclear negotiator in the next week or so to discuss Tehran’s atomic program, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday.
Analysis: Rivals rap Clinton’s Iran vote
AP: For months, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Democratic rivals watched in frustration as she smoothly pivoted away from her 2002 Senate vote authorizing military action in Iraq.
Iranian behind Kurdish murders in Germany to be freed early
AFP: An Iranian jailed for life in Germany for the 1992 murder of four Kurdish dissidents which a Berlin court said was ordered by Tehran is to be released early, prosecutors said Thursday.
Uruguay caught buying Iran arms
Washington Times: Uruguayan parliamentary investigators said they blocked an attempt by their government to purchase arms from Iran, using a diversion through Venezuela to try to evade U.N. sanctions on the Tehran government.
EU to leave door open to further Iran sanctions
Reuters: European Union foreign ministers will warn Iran next week that it faces tougher sanctions unless it halts nuclear activities the West suspects are aimed at making atomic bombs, diplomats said on Thursday.
Rice says Iran ‘lying’ about nukes
AP: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday accused Iran of “lying” about the aim of its nuclear program, saying there’s no doubt Tehran wants the capability to produce nuclear weapons and has deceived the U.N.’s atomic watchdog about its intentions.
Abducted Japanese in Iran is alive, safe-report
Reuters: The kidnappers of a Japanese man in Iran have said he is “alive and safe” and offered to exchange him with a jailed bandit, a security official was quoted as saying on Thursday.
