USA Today | Obama urges more pressure on Iran's financial system Jerusalem Post WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama said on Monday the United States, Britain and Canada were cutting Iran off from its financial systems and encouraged other countries to do the same. Obama said the United States had identified "the entire Iranian ... US targets Iran's central bank as world takes aim at Iran's nuclear program Iran envoy criticizes IAEA conduct United States and Its Allies Expand Sanctions on Iran |
Islamic Republic News Agency | Iranian police raid offices of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's press aide Los Angeles Times REPORTING FROM TEHRAN AND BEIRUT -- The drama surrounding Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's top media advisor, who was reportedly sentenced to jail for an article deemed offensive to Islamic values, took a tumultuous turn Monday. ... Arrest of a Top Adviser to Iran's President Is Reported In Iran, Secret Plans To Abolish The Presidency? Iranian judiciary officials try to arrest top aide to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
Telegraph.co.uk | Hezbollah, Iran uncover CIA informants Reuters Separately, counterintelligence officers in Iran also succeeded in uncovering the identities of at least a handful of alleged CIA informants, the officials said. Some former US officials said that the CIA informants, believed to be local recruits ... Major CIA network unraveled by Hezbollah, Iran CIA loses spy networks in Iran, Lebanon – US media Spies in Lebanon and Iran and the Supercommittee — Today's Q's for O's WH ... |
AFP | Record for UN vote on Iran, N. Korea, Myanmar AFP UNITED NATIONS — Record numbers of countries voted in favor of UN General Assembly resolutions condemning human rights abuses in Iran, North Korea and Myanmar. The Iran vote came only three days after the General Assembly condemned an alleged plot to ... UN Resolution on Iran's Human Rights Violations Ramps Up Cross-Regional ... Iran official slams "preposterous" UN condemnation Iran rejects UN condemnation of rights record |
Wall Street Journal | US Cautions Iraq to Curb Iran Forays Wall Street Journal BAGHDAD—Weeks before the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq, the commander of American forces here urged the Iraqi government to keep fighting extremists, especially the Iran-backed militias he said threaten to form a state within a state. ... As US exits Iraq, a top general's warning US general warns of turbulence as troops exit Iraq Dr Musa A Keilani: Republican ignores realities |
Global Security Newswire | Iran may have sent Libya shells for chemical weapons Washington Post The Obama administration is investigating whether Iran supplied the Libyan government of Moammar Gaddafi with hundreds of special artillery shells for chemical weapons that Libya kept secret for decades, US officials said. ... Iran Might Have Given Qadhafi Munitions for Chemical Strikes Libya May Have Received Shells for Chemical Weapons From Iran, Report Says Report: Iran suspected of giving Libya shells for chemical weapons |
Today's Zaman | Turkey says Iran nuclear ambitions might be about threats it perceives Today's Zaman Turkish President Abdullah Gül has said empathy is required to see underlying reasons why Iranians are determined to continue with their suspected nuclear program despite sanctions that badly damaged Iran's economy. "It is important to put oneself in ... |
Reuters | O'Hanlon: Questions for the GOP on Iran and the defense budget CNN (blog) By Michael O'Hanlon – Special to CNN When Republican candidates convene Tuesday night at 8p.m. on CNN to debate foreign policy once again, the moderator should push them on two issues in particular - US policy toward Iran and the Defense Department ... GOP candidates belligerent on Iran Forum: Gingrich & Santorum Would Attack Iran, Paul Wouldn't |
ABC News (blog) | Iran War, Paris Hilton More Popular Than Congress ABC News (blog) In polls for the past few months, the public had a higher opinion of everything from celebrity heiress Paris Hilton to going to war with Iran than it did of Congress. Actor Charlie Sheen was more than twice as popular as Congress in an August Ipsos ... |
Iran Focus | Iran Threatens the Use of the 'Oil Weapon' Huffington Post (blog) In a recent interview on Al Jazeera television Iran's Oil Minister Rostam Qaesemi, commenting on Iran's Oil exports, brazenly threatened, "In case we are urged to and feel it necessary, we will use it as a political tool." This amidst his comments that ... Iran May Use Oil As Politic Tool If Necessary, Says Minister Iran Says Oil Market Will Suffer If Its Exports Disrupted Iran to Offer Oil Contracts to Individual Investors, Shana Says |