AP: Iran’s foreign ministry on Thursday summoned the Iraqi and Swiss envoys to Tehran over the detention of five Iranian staffers at a diplomatic mission in northern Iraq, state-run television reported.
Iran summons Swiss, Iraqi diplomats
Iran, N.Korea disputes need negotiation: IAEA chief
Reuters: U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Mohammed ElBaradei called for a negotiated end to the Iranian and North Korean nuclear disputes, Algeria’s stated-owned El Moudjahid newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Iranian bank denies U.S. charge it is a weapons proliferator
Reuters: Iran’s state-owned Bank Sepah on Wednesday denied U.S. charges it was helping the country to acquire nuclear weapons and threatened unspecified legal action, an Iranian news agency said.
Israel’s Olmert discusses Iran with China’s Hu
Reuters: Israel’s prime minister, on the last leg of a lobbying mission among veto-wielding U.N. Security Council nations, met Chinese President Hu Jintao on Thursday to argue Iran’s nuclear plans could destabilise the Middle East.
Commerzbank pares ties with Iran
AFP: Commerzbank, the second-biggest bank in Germany, is to join other European banks in curtailing its activities with Iran, a spokesman said on Wednesday, as the United States seeks to isolate Teheran economically.
Iran condemns US air strike on Somalia
AFP: Iran on Wednesday condemned a US air strike in southern Somalia as a violation of international law.
Minor quake jolts south-west Iran province
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 11 A small earthquake shook parts of the south-west town of Haftgol on Thursday, the official news agency IRNA reported.
Minor quake jolts south-west Iran province
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 11 A small earthquake shook parts of the south-west town of Haftgol on Thursday, the official news agency IRNA reported.
Mine-removal operation raises false alarm in S.W. Iran province
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 11 Three explosions which rocked the restive province of Khuzestan, south-west Iran, on Thursday were due to a mine-removal operation underway, the state-run news agency Fars quoted the governor of the city of Khorramshahr as saying.
Mine-removal operation raises false alarm in S.W. Iran province
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 11 Three explosions which rocked the restive province of Khuzestan, south-west Iran, on Thursday were due to a mine-removal operation underway, the state-run news agency Fars quoted the governor of the city of Khorramshahr as saying.
