Trend News Agency | Iran criticizes Turkey over missile defense shield The Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran criticized Turkey on Tuesday for agreeing to allow NATO to station an early warning radar in the southeast of the country that will serve as part of the alliance's missile defense system. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed ... Ahmadinejad: 'NATO radar won't stop fall of Zionist regime' NATO defense shield unable to intercept Iran missiles: military officer Iran names NATO missile shield in Turkey useless |
Austin American-Statesman | Iran puts University of Texas student on trial USA Today TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – An Iranian graduate student at the University of Texas went on trial Tuesday in Tehran on charges of having relations with a hostile country and receiving illegitimate funds, his lawyer said. Omid Kokabee pleaded not guilty to both ... UT student denies guilt at trial in Iran Iran puts University of Texas student on trial Texas nuclear physics student on trial in Iran |
Iran cinemas threaten to close over financial woe Reuters TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's cinema owners have threatened to close their movie houses to protest against costs that have soared since energy subsidies were slashed last year, sending a highly visible message of opposition to the ... |
The Atlantic | Home From Iran, Detained Hiker Finds Warm Welcome and a Familiar Life The Atlantic On the menu for Josh Fattal when he arrived home after 25 months in jail in Iran: basketball and Indian food. Fattal and fellow American hiker Shane Bauer, both 29, were released on Sept. 23 after more than two years in solitary ... Shane Bauer release: Boulder woman reflects on brother's freedom after 2 years ... Iran's judiciary says freed US hikers' lawyer not arrested |
Islamic Republic News Agency | Iran hangs up on U.S. hotline Politico Iran has rejected a plan proposed by senior Obama administration officials to establish a military hotline between Washington and Tehran, reports The Wall Street Journal. The military-to-military hot line would have allowed for open lines of ... Iran Rejects Proposed US Military Hot Line Iran looks to sea as route to project power Iran looks to sea as route to project power |
Al-Arabiya | Land: Iran has int'l obligation to free pastor BP News WASHINGTON (BP) -- Iran has an obligation under its international commitments to free a pastor facing execution and to drop all charges against him, Southern Baptist ethicist Richard Land says in a letter written to Iran's United Nations ambassador. ... Iran Takes Note of Efforts to Save Pastor – Spreads Lies Iran Switches Charges Against Pastor for the Second Time Iran court likely to revoke pastor's death sentence: lawyer |
Iran's Death Penalty for Christian Pastor Violates the Quran Huffington Post (blog) In Iran, Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani faces the death penalty for the "crime" of leaving Islam as a teenager and converting to Christianity. A translated Iranian Supreme Court brief from 2010 states that 32-year-old Nadarkhani "is convicted of turning his ... The Hypocrisy of The Episcopal Church Over Who Persecutes Whom Bush: It's just too hard to go to church |
MiamiHerald.com | Spy games come to New York for UN General Assembly San Francisco Chronicle When Iran's president accused the US at the United Nations General Assembly last year of orchestrating the 9/11 attacks, American diplomats were not caught flat-footed by the tirade. Even before President Mahmoud ... UNGA hotbed of spy games |
msnbc.com (blog) | Koch Industries bypassed Iran sanctions Jewish Telegraphic Agency WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Koch Industries went to great lengths to bypass US laws banning dealings with Iran until 2007, according to a report. Koch's practice, revealed this week in a Bloomberg News report, was to use overseas subsidiaries. ... Koch brothers skirt US law with secret Iran sales Koch responds to Bloomberg The Koch brothers 'bombshell': Illegal trade with Iran? |
AFP | Iran ready to halt 20% nuclear enrichment: Ahmadinejad AFP The UN Security Council has slapped four rounds of sanctions on Iran to get it to suspend uranium enrichment, a process which can produce fuel for a reactor but which it says -- contrary to Ahmadinejad's assertion -- can also be used in a nuclear ... Iran threatens to expand uranium enrichment without nuclear swap Iran Could Boost Uranium Enrichment if Exchange Plan Fails REGION: Tehran urges US to free Iranian inmates |