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Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) June 29, 2010 It’s getting difficult to keep up with all the videos featuring missing Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri. Tehran insists he’s been kidnapped by the United States; other sources say he’s defected. Just as we posted an item about his third video — in which he says he [...]
Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) June 29, 2010 Former Iranian President Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, a top Iranian cleric who has supported the opposition, has severely criticized the country’s political situation, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports. The criticism came in a letter published on Rafsanjani’s website on June 27, one day before the 29th anniversary of [...]
Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) June 29, 2010 YEREVAN — An Armenian government minister says Yerevan is seeking as much as $1 billion in loans from China to finance a railway link to neighboring Iran, RFE/RL’s Armenian Service reports. Armenian Transport and Communications Minister Manuk Vartanian said on June 28 that the government has [...]
Source: Los Angeles Times Babylon & Beyond June 29, 2010 In its latest attempt to explain the death of the Green Movement’s inadvertent icon Neda Agha Soltan, the Iranian regime released a documentary last week to counter the widely accepted narrative of the incident. It concludes that an unknown woman approached Agha-Soltan and, grabbing a gun [...]
* Gazprom Neft aims for 100,000 tonnes of oil output by 2020 * Cuba estimates 20 billion barrels of oil offshore Source: Reuters June 29, 2010 MOSCOW – Gazprom Neft (SIBN.MM), the oil arm of Russian energy firm Gazprom (GAZP.MM), is looking to expand its foreign operations into oil-rich Cuba and Iran, which are both [...]
By Gwen Ackerman and Ali Sheikholeslami Source: Bloomberg June 29, 2010 Russia and the U.S. offered to hold talks with Iran on the provision of nuclear fuel for its Tehran medical reactor, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. Iran wants to enrich uranium to the 20 percent concentration needed for a reactor because it hasn’t [...]
Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) June 29, 2010 A new video has surfaced in which a man who identifies himself as Shahram Amiri, an Iranian nuclear scientist who went missing about a year ago during a trip to Saudi Arabia, says he is being held in the United States against his will. Amiri says [...]
Source: Reuters Africa June 28, 2010 Spain’s largest oil company Repsol (REP.MC: Quote) has pulled out of a contract it won with Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L: Quote) to develop part of the South Pars gas field in Iran, a spokesman said on Monday [ID:nLDE65R0JE]. A growing number of oil companies, trading houses and other international [...]
By Amitai Etzioni Source: Global Security June 28, 2010 For more than a year the United States and its allies have courted various nations on the periphery of Iran, in the hope of isolating it and thus motivating it to change its course. Events show that this strategy is not working. Indeed, more and more [...]
