AFP: Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has told pilgrims on the annual hajj to Mecca that those who sow discord among Muslims are “mercenaries of the treacherous enemy”, Iranian media reported Friday.
Iran warns pilgrims to beware ‘the enemy’s mercenaries’
Two Iranians held by US in Iraq freed: Iranian television
AFP: Two Iranians being held by US forces in Iraq were released early Friday, Iranian state television reported without quoting a source.
Iran defense industry unharmed by sanctions: minister
Reuters: Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar on Friday dismissed U.N. sanctions imposed on Iran as “psychological warfare” and suggested they would not affect Iran’s missile production capability.
Iran, terror and the Clinton ‘legacy’
Washington Times – Editorial: U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth’s ruling that the Iranian government is to blame for the killing of 19 members of the U.S. Air Force in a 1996 bombing in Saudi Arabia highlights again the weak U.S. response to Islamist terror during the Clinton administration.
Group: Iranians were part of elite force
AP: Two Iranians detained by U.S. forces in Iraq were senior members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards and had coordinated attacks against coalition troops and Iraqi civilians, the head of an Iranian opposition group said Thursday.
Iran expands links with Syrians
International Herald Tribune: Early next year, Syria’s first domestically manufactured cars are scheduled to roll off an assembly line. They will have an Iranian name, be produced in a plant partly financed by a state-controlled Iranian car company and be made of parts from Iran.
Army betrayed me, says spy charge soldier
Daily Telegraph: An aide to a British general, accused of spying for Iran, appeared in court yesterday and claimed he had been betrayed by the army.
Urgent: Iran’s Justice Minister dies in road accident
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 28 – Iran’s Justice Minister died on Thursday in a road accident, state-run media reported.
Urgent: Iran’s Justice Minister dies in road accident
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 28 – Iran’s Justice Minister died on Thursday in a road accident, state-run media reported.
Iran to revise any relations with monitors in nuclear area
New York Times: By an overwhelming vote, Parliament passed a bill on Wednesday that could limit Irans cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations monitor.
