Eye On Iran: U.S. Enriches Companies Defying Its Policy on Iran - Iran's Ahmadinejad: Sept. 11 Attacks a 'Big Lie' - UANI on FOX News
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Stories
Front Page of the Sunday NYT: "The federal
government has awarded
more than $107 billion in contract payments, grants and other benefits
over the
past decade to foreign and multinational American companies while they
were
doing business in Iran, despite Washington's efforts to discourage
investment
there, records show...Indeed, of the 74 companies The Times identified
as doing
business with both the United States government and Iran, 49 continue
to do
business there with no announced plans to leave...But Representative
Ron Klein,
a Florida Democrat who wrote the contracting provision moving through
Congress
with the help of a lobbying group called United Against Nuclear Iran,
said it
offered a way forward with or without international agreement." http://nyti.ms/duPO8G
AP: "Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
on Saturday
called the official version of the Sept. 11 attacks a 'big lie' used by
the
U.S. as an excuse for the war on terror, state media reported." http://bit.ly/9N4c07
AP: "Iran announced Sunday that it has started a new
production
line of highly accurate, short range cruise missiles, which would add a
new
element to the country's already imposing arsenal." http://bit.ly/bwbhX9
Nuclear
Program
Reuters: "The Obama administration has boosted U.S.
defense ties to
Israel and will close ranks with its ally against any threat from a
nuclear-armed Iran, Vice President Joe Biden said on Monday ahead of a
trip to
Israel." http://nyti.ms/bRrEXx
Reuters: "China's Foreign Minister said on Sunday
new sanctions on
Iran will not solve the standoff over its nuclear program, while
chiding the
United States after two months of tensions between the big powers." http://bit.ly/9gAL6y
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Human Rights
Reuters: "Iranian authorities prevented a son of
prominent
opposition figure Mehdi Karoubi from leaving the country for London and
confiscated his passport, Karoubi's website reported on Saturday." http://bit.ly/avMNQp
Foreign Affairs
Reuters: "Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
travels to
neighboring Afghanistan on Monday for talks with his counterpart Hamid
Karzai,
an Iranian news agency reported on Sunday." http://bit.ly/cFteqb
Reuters: "Iran has given Russian commercial pilots
working in the
Islamic Republic two months to leave the country as it has no need for
them,
Transport Minister Hamid Behbahani was quoted as saying on Saturday." http://bit.ly/a1GxQy
Opinion
Jad Mouawad in NYT: "Diplomacy and energy are never far apart in the Persian Gulf. So, as American officials seek new international sanctions against Iran this week, it's probably wise for them to remember how much the world's global energy map has changed over the past decade." http://nyti.ms/d186M1
David Ignatius in WP: "The Obama administration is struggling to craft a new round of U.N. sanctions against Iran that achieves more than this feel-good impact. The ambitious goal is 'to cut off the revenues that fund Iran's nuclear and missile programs,' says a senior administration official." http://bit.ly/b3JV6m
Abbas Djavadi for Radio Farda: "Behind the populist rhetoric about 'brotherly relations between Iran and Iraq,' however, Iran's role in Iraqi affairs seem to be directed more toward gaining influence in order to reduce security threats against Iran rather than to destabilize Iraq. A recent study by the International Crisis Group found that 'the evidence of attempted destabilizing Iranian intervention is far less extensive and clear than is alleged.'" http://bit.ly/aWElOr
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