Tag Archives: Iran

Russia has sent the nuclear fuel needed to start the Bushehr plant. The trial of three American hikers, two of whom are still in Iranian custody, has been postponed.

Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi claimed Osama bin Laden died years ago from an undisclosed sickness. “If the US military and the intelligence apparatus arrested and killed Bin Laden, why didn’t they show the body? Why did they throw it in the sea?”

The Iranian foreign minister blamed unrest in Syria on a US plots to destabilize the country. The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps received two no-bid contracts to develop natural gas in the Pars fields.

US legislators proposed adding a human rights component to Western-backed sanctions against Iran. Iran claimed that GCC complaints over its “interference” in Bahrain are “baseless”. The lawyer for two imprisoned US hikers is hopeful for verdict in the next week.

The minister of Mines and Industries said Western-backed sanctions against Iran are ineffective. Iranian wheat consumption is expected to drop with the cutting of farm subsidies. Iran pressed Syria over a missing Al Jazeera journalist.

Senior Iranian clergy warned President Ahmadinejad not to overestimate his power. Turkey rejected US and EU sanctions on doing business with Iran’s Bank Mellat.

Tehran warned it would retaliate for Bahrain’s expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Manama. Security forces discovered a second cyber attack against infrastructure. Two jailed American hikers may get a court date in May.