DID IRAN BRIBE CHINA TO TORPEDO U.N. VOTE?

02/05/2012 WND by AARON KLEIN JERUSALEM – According to a senior Egyptian security official speaking to WND, Iran offered China a deal to purchase oil at a cheaper price in exchange for vetoing a U.N. resolution today that called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to resign. Assad’s regime has been facing a violent insurgency. The [...]

Iranians bemoan sanctions hardship as vote approaches

Sun Feb 5, 2012 8:03am EST (Reuters) – Each day that he struggles to buy food for his family, vegetable seller Hasan Sharafi shoulders part of the burden of Iran’s defiance of the West over its nuclear programme. He can hardly bear it. “Prices are going up every day, life is expensive. I buy chicken [...]

Iran Vows Retaliation Against Countries Used As Base For Attack

RFE/RL February 05, 2012 Iran has said it would retaliate against any country that is used to launch an attack on it. The semi-official Fars news agency quotes a senior commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, General Hossein Salami, as saying that “any place where enemy offensive operations against the Islamic Republic of Iran [...]

Arab, Turkish officials urge dialogue with Iran

Sunday, 05 February 2012 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MUNICH Arab and Turkish officials slammed talk of a military strike against Iran, saying Sunday it would be a disaster for the region and calling for renewed negotiations, while also urging the international community to keep pressure on Syria to end the bloodshed there. In the wake of [...]

Iran-Latin America links drawing attention in Washington

02/05/2012 Miamiherald BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMER MOC.DLAREHIMAIMnull@REMIEHNEPPOA Latin America rarely comes up as a major issue in U.S. presidential races, but this time it will: There are growing signs that Iran’s rising presence in the region will become a contentious election topic. Republican hopeful Mitt Romney and leading Republicans in Congress are stepping up their attacks [...]

Paper cut out of Khomeini roams Tehran amid Iranians’ indignation

Sunday, 05 February 2012 A paper cut out of former Iranian leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, has been met with disdain on the part of hundreds of thousands of people. (File photo) By MOUSSA AL-SHARIFI AL ARABIYA In commemoration of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, a paper model of Iran’s first Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini was paraded in the [...]

Iran begins war games in Strait of Hormuz

02/05/2012 DEUTSCHE WELLE Iran has begun military exercises, planned weeks in advance, in the narrow Strait of Hormuz. The exercises come after the West sent more warships to the region amid on-going tensions over Iran’s nuclear program. The hard-line Iranian Revolutionary Guards began naval maneuvers in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, more than a [...]

Last steps taken to summon president to Parliament

RadioZamaneh Sun, 02/05/2012 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Iranian MP Mostafa Rezahosseini has announced that the final step has been taken to summon Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for questioning. Rezahosseini said: “The report prepared by the initiators of the motion to question the president has been delivered to the Speaker of Parliament.” The Mehr News Agency reports that the report [...]

Rights groups make global appeal for help with Iran

RadioZamaneh Sat, 02/04/2012 International rights groups have called on the global community to take a firmer stance in its talks with Iran on respect for human rights. In a joint statement, Reporters Without Borders, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Iranian League for the Defence of Human Rights have denounced the “unacceptable [...]

China refuses to join the sanctions bandwagon

RadioZamaneh Sat, 02/04/2012 China has announced once more that it will not join with the West in imposing sanctions on Iran, emphasizing that talks and cooperation are the only correct and effective path to resolving nuclear disputes with the Islamic Republic. The Xinhua News Agency reports that Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao told German Chancellor Angela [...]

Iran mass producing anti-ship cruise missile: TV

02/04/2012 AP –  Iran has begun mass production of an anti-ship cruise missile, state television’s website said on Saturday. The Zafar missile, as it is dubbed in the report, “is a short-range, anti-ship cruise missile capable of destroying small- and medium-sized targets with high precision.” It can be mounted on speed boats and other light [...]

Iranian warships dock at Saudi port

The Daily Star February 04, 2012 04:08 PM (Last updated: February 04, 2012 04:21 PM) TEHRAN: Iranian naval ships docked on Saturday in the Saudi port city of Jeddah on a mission to project the Islamic republic’s “power on the open seas,” the Fars news agency reported. The supply ship Kharg and Shaid Qandi, a [...]

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