AFP: Campaigning for Iraq’s April 30 elections will be “highly divisive” as parties appeal to their sectarian bases at a time of worsening violence, the UN’s envoy to Baghdad has warned.
UN envoy warns of ‘divisive’ Iraq election campaign
Dempsey says Israel-U.S. perceptions of Iran grow closer
Bloomberg: Israel’s view of how soon Iran will gain a nuclear-weapon capability has become much closer to that of officials in Washington, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Tuesday.
U.S. grand jury probing Deutsche Borse unit’s ties to Iran bank
Reuters: A U.S. grand jury is probing whether Deutsche Boerse AG’s Clearstream Banking SA unit took any steps to benefit Iran and its central bank, according to a court filing in a case that stems from the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut.
Iran loses Manhattan skyscraper to terror victims
New York Daily News: The Iranian companies that own a Midtown office tower worth more than $500 million must forfeit the building to people who successfully sued Iran for damages over terrorist attacks, including 9/11, a judge has ruled.
Iran’s other nuclear timebomb
National Post: Except for a few concerned neighbours in the Gulf, nobody is really looking at the possible implications of a potential earthquake in Bushehr, where Iran’s oldest and main nuclear plant is located.
Yemen president urges Iran to stop interference: newspaper
Reuters: Yemen’s president called on Iran to stop supporting separatists in the south and religious groups in the north of the Arabian peninsula country, which is trying to stabilize after more than two years of political upheaval.
Former U.S. hostages angry about new Iran U.N. envoy appointee
Reuters: Former U.S. embassy workers held hostage in Iran from 1979 to 1981 are outraged that Tehran has selected a new U.N. envoy who may have played a role in the 444-day crisis and want him barred from U.S. territory.
Iran former chief rabbi Yousef Hamadani Cohen dies
AP: Yousef Hamadani Cohen, Iran’s former chief rabbi and one of the cornerstones of its tiny Jewish community, has died. He was 98. Rabbi Cohen died on Friday and was buried on Sunday.
Iran pokes a finger in Obama’s eye
American Thinker: Obama’s rapprochement policy toward Iran has worked out almost as well for him as ObamaCare, except that ObamaCare doesn’t threaten to use nuclear weapons.
Merchant ship shot at in Strait of Hormuz Sunday- NATO
Reuters: Unknown assailants in a speedboat shot at a merchant vessel as it sailed through the Strait of Hormuz between Iran and Oman on Sunday, the NATO Shipping Centre (NSC) said.
