Bloomberg: Iran’s new oil minister, Bijan Namdar-Zanganeh, has released plans to raise oil production 70 percent to 4.2 million barrels a day to try to win back old customers, even if it means starting a price war.
Iran oil minister hints at price war to win back market share
Top Iran adviser reaches out to West
AP: A top adviser to Iran’s supreme leader says the election of centrist Hasan Rouhani as the country’s president gives an opportunity to world powers to reach a deal with Iran over its nuclear program – but that Tehran will never again suspend its nuclear activities.
House Members reject myth of Rouhani’s moderation
PRNewswire: Hundreds of Iranian Americans in California attended a convention at the Anaheim Convention Center sponsored by California Society for Democracy in Iran, where several former senior US Government officials and sitting members of congress spoke.
CIA admits 1953 Iran coup: document
AFP: The CIA has admitted orchestrating the August 1953 coup that toppled Iran’s prime minister after he tried to nationalize his country’s oil wealth from Britain, according to a declassified document.
Iran’s President Rouhani is anything but a moderate
Conservative Home: Many in the western press and beyond have praised the recently-elected Iranian President Hassan Rouhani as a moderate, suggesting he will make life better for his people and extend an olive branch to the rest of the world. So let’s look at his record.
Rouhani says Iran has no true political parties
Trend: Iranian president Hassan Rouhani expressed sorrow about country not having any true political parties, ISNA news agency reported. Rouhani made the remarks during the ceremony of presenting Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli as Iran’s new Interior Minister.
Iran to teach drone-hunting to school students
AP: An Iranian newspaper is reporting that the country’s powerful Revolutionary Guards paramilitary units plan to teach drone-hunting to school students. Iranian hardliners have long sought a larger role for the military in the country’s education system.
South Africa’s Sasol disposes of Iranian unit
Reuters: South African petrochemicals group Sasol said on Monday it had disposed of its Iranian joint-venture Arya Sasol Polymer for an undisclosed sum. The company has said the value of Sasol’s investment in Arya was written down to 2.3 billion rand, according to an August 1 trading statement.
Iran, Hezbollah now running Syria: opposition
AFP: Opposition leader Ahmad Jarba said Syria is now being run by regime allies Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, with President Bashar al-Assad out of the picture, in an interview published Sunday.
Ex-official: Iran is world’s 6th missile power
AP: The semi-official Fars news agency quoted Brig. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi on Sunday as saying that Iran reached this level of manufacturing by “attaining domestic technology for building solid fuel missiles, as well as designing and manufacturing surface-to-surface long-range missiles.”
