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Iran Aims to Set Up Covert Banks in Muslim Countries

Tehran is trying to work around sanctions on its banking industry

(Newser) - Iran is attempting to set up undercover banks across the Muslim world, hiding the institutions’ origins with fake names and misleading bureaucracy, the Washington Post reports. Iran is keeping establishments in countries like Iraq and Malaysia shrouded in secrecy as a means of working around tough sanctions, including the Treasury...

Iran: 2 Hikers Will Face Trial

Clinton confirms Nov.6 trial date, still hopes for release

(Newser) - After more than a year in an Iranian prison, American hikers Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal are headed to trial, says Iran's intelligence minister. "The two Americans will be tried," Heidar Moslehi said. "We will hand any evidence we have to the judiciary." Hillary Clinton confirmed...

In Secret Talks, Iran Forged Deal for Pro-Tehran Iraq

It brokered the coalition between Nouri Al-Maliki, Muqtada al-Sadr

(Newser) - Iran was behind the recently struck deal between Nouri al-Maliki and Muqtada al-Sadr, and the result could be an Iraqi government friendly to Tehran and distanced from the West, the Guardian reports. According to the paper's sources, Syria, Hezbollah, and top Shia religious leaders were involved with a secret campaign...

US Accuses Chinese Firms of Breaking Iran Sanctions

Gives Beijing a list of companies it's not happy with

(Newser) - The Obama administration believes that a number of Chinese businesses are violating UN sanctions and helping Iran improve its missile technology and build nuclear weapons, a senior US official tells the Washington Post . Last month, the State Department handed Beijing a “significant list’ of companies and banks it suspects...

Iranian Chocolate Thief Will Lose Hand

Man convicted of robbery sentenced to amputation

(Newser) - An Iranian man convicted of robbing a candy store will have his hand cut off as punishment, reports the BBC , citing local media. Police found $900, gloves, and what the BBC describes as “a large amount of chocolate” in his car before arresting him. Typically, amputations are used as...

Ahmadinejad Wants Nuke Talks
 Ahmadinejad Wants Nuke Talks 
Oct 17, 2010 6:02 AM CDT

Ahmadinejad Wants Nuke Talks

Tells West, 'All right, we will negotiate with you'

(Newser) - Usually when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad opens his mouth the West cringes, but today the Iranian leader is calling for renewed international talks about its nuclear program. Ahmadinejad gave no timeframe, but today told a crowd: "They have come and say, "We will negotiate.' We say, "All right,...

Relax, Iran Is Harmless

 Relax, Iran 
 Is Harmless 
Roger Cohen
Oct 11, 2010 12:47 PM CDT

Relax, Iran Is Harmless

Ahmadinejad is just a paper tiger, Roger Cohen argues

(Newser) - When Ahmadinejad last visited in New York, he had breakfast with Roger Cohen—because, Cohen writes in the New York Times , “Ahmadinejad’s passion for the hidden Imam, whose imminent return he expects, is matched only by his passion for Western media.” Cohen didn’t even bother reporting...

Ahmadinejad: US Leaders Should Be 'Buried'

Today is a not-on-his-meds day

(Newser) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has had it with what he says are US threats to his nuclear program, today calling for American leaders to be buried. "May the undertaker bury you, your table and your body, which has soiled the world," said the Iranian leader, ratcheting up the rhetoric with...

Iran Arrests 'Nuclear Spies' Amid Stuxnet Worm Scare

It provides few details, says systems are safe

(Newser) - Iran sought to reassure its residents today that the nation's nuclear programs are safe from Stuxnet , which might be the scariest computer virus known to man. The intelligence chief said authorities had arrested "nuclear spies," though he didn't say who, how many, or where they're from, reports the...

Virus Attacking Iran Has Israeli Calling Card

Esther mention could point finger at Israel, or be red herring

(Newser) - Computer experts have found a clue that might indicate the origin of Stuxnet , the rogue super-virus that’s believed to target Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reactor. One file in the code is named “Myrtus,” which can be read as a reference to Esther, the Old Testament heroine who...

Iran Sentences the 'Blogfather' to 19 Years

Hossein Derakhshan accused of insulting religious figures, spying for Israel

(Newser) - An Iranian-Canadian nicknamed "the Blogfather" has been jailed for 19 years for supposedly spreading propaganda, insulting Islamic thought, and co-operating with hostile countries. Hossein Derakhshan, 35, helped launch the Farsi-speaking blogosphere after moving to Canada in 2000. He was arrested in 2008 during a visit to his homeland and...

'Weapon Worm' Infects Iran Nuke Plant

But out-of-control malware is exacting 'collateral damage' in digital battle

(Newser) - What may be the world's first major "weapon worm" has already infected workers' personal computers at Iran's Bushehr nuclear facility just weeks before the power station is set to go online, officials have confirmed. Experts believe the damaging Stuxnet worm is the work of engineers so organized and well-funded...

Oman to Seek Hikers' Release
 Oman to Seek Hikers' Release 
Sep 26, 2010 7:57 AM CDT

Oman to Seek Hikers' Release

Iran paper: Diplomats may return home with Bauer, Fattal

(Newser) - Oman is sending a delegation to Iran today with the goal of securing the release of the remaining two US hikers still imprisoned. Citing a hardline Iranian newspaper report, the AP says hopes are high that the Omanis might return home with Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal—especially given their...

Freed Hiker Recounts Prison Marriage Proposal

Sarah Shourd says 'life will not resume' until friends are free

(Newser) - Sarah Shourd, the American hiker released by Iran, says that life "will not resume" until her fellow detainees are released. Shourd talked at length about her captivity in an AP interview : the monotony of solitary confinement, a brief hunger strike, the good cop/bad cop interrogations, and the brief interludes...

US Walks Out on Ahmadinejad Speech

He again floats 9/11 conspiracy theories

(Newser) - The US delegation walked out of the UN speech of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today after he yet again speculated that the US staged the 9/11 attacks to boost the economy and save the "Zionist regime" of Israel. Ahmadinejad has "chosen to spout vile conspiracy theories and anti-Semitic slurs that...

Could 'Super Malware' Destroy Iran's Nukes?

'Stuxnet' can search and destroy real-world targets

(Newser) - It sounds like something from an awfully imaginative spy flick: A virus that can mysteriously search out and destroy real-world, bricks-and-mortar targets. But it's real, say security researchers. They've identified just such a program, called Stuxnet, and at least one expert thinks it may have already hit Iran's Bushehr nuclear...

Ahmadinejad Stinking Up the Hilton

Hotel neighbors not too happy about the smell of his cooking

(Newser) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is in New York for the UN General Assembly, and he brought along his own chef. Remember how some of the state’s top politicians greeted Ahmadinejad’s arrival with protests ? Well, some of his neighbors at the Hilton Manhattan East would like to do...

Bombing Strikes Iranian Parade, Kills 10

Iran blames attack on 'terrorists'

(Newser) - A bomb struck a military parade in Iran today, killing 10 and wounding 57, most of them women and children, according to the provincial governor. On the state-run Press TV, authorities blamed the attack on “terrorists” who opposed the 1979 Islamic revolution, and who “have always carried out...

Ahmadinejad Threatens 'War Without Boundaries'

Iranian president promises retaliation for attacks on nuclear sites

(Newser) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatened a war with "no boundaries" if Western powers attack potential Iranian nuclear sites, ABC News reports. While in New York for a meeting of the UN General Assembly, the Iranian president again said his country would soon become a nuclear power, adding that the US and...

Iran on Execution of Va. Woman: US Is a Hypocrite

Case shows double standard in outcry over Ashtiani

(Newser) - For those in New York protesting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's policies today (like the decision to stone a woman accused of adultery to death), Iran has fired back with the old "You're a hypocrite." Seems Tehran thinks Virginia opting to execute Teresa Lewis, a woman with a low IQ who...

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