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Source: The Associated Press (AP)/The Washington Post October 21, 2010 LOS ANGELES — A California businessman who spent more than two years in an Iranian prison after being accused of passing money to a rebel group is returning home. Seventy-one-year-old Reza Taghavi is due at Los Angeles International Airport on Thursday night where he will [...]
A top Turkish official says in the U.S. that Turkish firms are ‘free to make their own decisions’ about complying with sanctions aimed at cutting off trade with Iran over its nuclear program. By Paul Richter Source: Los Angeles Times October 21, 2010 Reporting from Washington — Turkey has rebuffed a U.S. effort to persuade [...]
Three Iranian football players are facing jail for kissing a woman fan in the Islamic state where physical contact between unrelated men and women is legally forbidden. Source: Telegraph October 20, 2010 Under Iran’s Islamic Sharia law, imposed since the 1979 Islamic revolution, violators of the law can be sentenced to lashes, fines or imprisonment. [...]
Source: Reuters U.S. October 20, 2010 Unlisted Iranian appliance maker Entekhab Industrial Group will sign a deal soon to buy South Korea’s Daewoo Electronics for about 577.8 billion won ($513 million), Daewoo’s leading creditor said on Wednesday. Woori Bank, which represents creditors-turned-shareholders of the unlisted Korean firm, said they will sign an official contract with [...]
By Glenn Kessler Source: The Washington Post October 20, 2010 Iran is secretly trying to set up banks in Muslim countries around the world, including Iraq and Malaysia, using dummy names and opaque ownership structures to skirt sanctions that have increasingly curtailed the Islamic republic’s global banking activities, U.S. officials say. The Treasury Department has [...]
By Mohammad Sagha Source: Foreign Policy Magazine October 20, 2010 Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, is visiting Qom, the religious epicenter of Iran and the residence of most of the country’s top religious authorities. But a little known fact is that the office of the supreme leader has a Twitter account that is providing [...]
By JOHN LELAND Source: The New York Times October 20, 2010 BAGHDAD — In the fractious world of Iraqi politics, October has been a month of unlikely courtships. On Wednesday Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki took his shuttle campaign to Egypt, a predominantly Sunni state that has had warmer relations with Mr. Maliki’s main political [...]
By ANGELA CHARLTON, SYLVIE CORBET Source: The Associated Press (AP)/Los Angeles Times October 19, 2010 DEAUVILLE, France — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday his country is considering a proposal to help develop a U.S.-led anti-missile shield for Europe — but says the whole idea still worries him. Medvedev met the leaders of France and [...]
By BRIAN MURPHY Source: The Associated Press (AP)/Los Angeles Times October 19, 2010 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s top leader quickly set the tone Tuesday for his long visit among some of the country’s most influential clerics — demanding loyalty to the Islamic state and an end to defiance that has blurred once-clear [...]
