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Iran has nominated a senior leader in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps to lead OPEC. Two IRGC soldiers and 21 Kurdish rebels were killed during fighting near the Iraqi border.

General Dempsey said Iran would make a “serious miscalculation” if it attempted to carry out a mass casualty attack against US forces in Iraq. Iran’s chief of police blamed the West for the current rise in crime.

Iran accused the US and Israel of murdering a scientist who was involved with Iran’s nuclear program. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei said an Iranian naval presence on the high seas “has made enemies nervous and worried.”

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps denied that it shot down an unmanned US spy plane over a nuclear enrichment plant. An Iranian nuclear scientist and his wife were murdered in front of their home in Tehran.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed it shot down an unmanned US surveillance aircraft near the nuclear facility at the Fordo uranium enrichment site near Qom. Iran has previously claimed to have shot down two other US UAVs over the Persian Gulf this year.

Iran is installing upgraded centrifuges to speed up the uranium enrichment process. India is seeking to purchase oil from Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia in case of disruptions in Iran’s oil supplies.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei told President Zardari that the US is the real enemy of Pakistan. President Ahmedinejad said Iran hopes to open a gas pipeline to Pakistan by 2013. Argentina demanded that Iran turn over suspects in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center that killed 85 people.

Iran is preparing to install centrifuges designed for high-grade uranium enrichment in an underground bunker. Iraqi Kurds accused Iran of building roads inside Iraqi territories.

Senior al Qaeda leaders, including Saif al Adel, continue to use Iran as a sanctuary. A top Islamic Revolution Guards Corps official claimed Iran is behind the “Islamic Awakening” in the Middle East.