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Source: United Press International (UPI) October 21, 2010 WASHINGTON — OPEC has been called on to make sure Iran plays “a more constructive role in the region” when it takes over the presidency, the U.S. State Department said. Members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries during their regular meeting in Vienna last week said [...]
Source: Agence France Presse (AFP) October 21, 2010 BERLIN — German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said Thursday that two Germans arrested in Iran who reportedly interviewed the son of a woman sentenced to death by stoning were “doing well under the circumstances”. Westerwelle told reporters that the Germans, who have been detained since October 10, [...]
Source: Xinhua October 21, 2010 Tehran — Iran and Venezuela urged for new global order whereby changes could be brought about to the world, the official IRNA news agency reported Thursday. During a meeting with his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez on Wednesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that both Iran and Venezuela are “determined for [...]
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 [...]
