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WSJ: "The Securities and Exchange Commission is
conducting a broad investigation into companies doing business in nations
designated as state sponsors of terrorism, as the U.S. government seeks to
determine whether any operations were used to support terrorist activities,
people familiar with the matter said." http://bit.ly/dh07C9
WP: "Taking advantage of the very sanctions directed
against it, Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps is assuming a leading role in
developing the country's lucrative petroleum sector, Western oil executives and
Iranian analysts say." http://bit.ly/9Rx3D0
NYT: "President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran said Tuesday
that relations with the United States might never be repaired if new sanctions
were imposed against his country, that the United Nations atomic agency had no
authority to poke its nose into matters like missiles and that despite his
contested re-election last year, Iran had not become a republic of fear." http://nyti.ms/apoiSN
Nuclear Program
NPR: "As the Obama administration pushes for tougher
international sanctions against Iran, Turkey is emerging as a key player in the
Iran nuclear controversy. Turkey's
foreign minister recently returned from Tehran, sounding very negative about
sanctions. Turkey is pushing hard for a resolution that would avoid sanctions
or a military strike." http://n.pr/d7lE0z
NYT: "A bipartisan group of 363 House lawmakers sent a
letter to President Obama on Wednesday urging him to impose 'crippling'
sanctions on Iran with or without United Nations action. The letter guarantees that there is bipartisan
support in Congress for 'tough and decisive measures' against Iran and asks Mr.
Obama to fulfill his July 2008 campaign pledge to do everything in his 'power
to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.'" http://nyti.ms/cLUmLp
AP: "Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad welcomes
mediation by Brazil in a nuclear deal with the West. The president's website said late Tuesday
that Ahmadinejad 'in principle' approves of Brazil having a role in reviving
the U.N.-backed deal to exchange nuclear fuel for Iran's stock of enriched
uranium." http://bit.ly/asQ3zx
WSJ: "Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad acknowledged
at the end of his two-day visit to the United Nations that new international
sanctions could soon be imposed on Iran, but stressed this wouldn't deter his
government from pushing forward with its nuclear program." http://bit.ly/a88tqC
Commerce
Reuters FACTBOX: "U.S. pressure has prompted a growing
number of oil firms, trading houses and other international companies to halt
business with Iran this year. While the
United States pushes for tougher U.N. sanctions on Iran over its nuclear
programme, the U.S. Congress is trying to hammer out a final bill which would
punish foreign companies that export gasoline and other petroleum products to
Iran." http://bit.ly/9TbNi0
Human Rights
AP: "Iran recently held highly unusual direct talks with
a former U.S. government official over the fate of a 71-year-old American
businessman jailed in Iran, even while rejecting President Barack Obama's
proposal for broader discussions between the two estranged governments." http://bit.ly/amTYid
Radio Farda: "The wife of jailed Iranian teacher Hashem
Khastar has told RFE/RL's Radio Farda that poor prison conditions have caused
her husband's health to deteriorate. Khastar
is among a number of Iranian teachers imprisoned for being politically active.
A member of the Iranian Teachers Trade Association, Khastar has been detained
in Vakilabad prison in Iran's northeastern city of Mashad since September 16." http://bit.ly/cq5sHO
Foreign Affairs
Telegraph UK: "Osama bin Laden, the world's most wanted
man, is living in the lap of luxury in an apartment in Iran and spends his time
falconing, according to a new documentary." http://bit.ly/a0WwjD
Culture
LAT: "Over the last weeks, several busts of famous
Iranian figures worth thousands of dollars have mysteriously vanished from
their pedestals in central Tehran one by one. First, a statue of the renowned Iranian poet Shahriar disappeared. Then
the busts of two prominent figures in Iran's 1906 constitutional revolution as
well as a Persian lexicographer went missing." http://bit.ly/cHbbRk
Opinion
Huffington Post: "President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was in New York this week to attend a UN non-proliferation conference, prompting a fresh round of worrying speculation over the possibility of a nuclear-armed Iran." http://huff.to/b2BBoy
News Analysis
Washington Institute: "As a result of this impasse, Iran
appears to have become an important political matchmaker, with
delegations from
all four alliances visiting Tehran in recent weeks. It is often assumed
that
many in Iraq's Shiite community accept or even welcome Iranian political
influence given their shared sectarian affiliation with the Islamic
Republic.
The results of a new poll, however, show that even Iraqi Shiites are
mostly
opposed to such intervention." http://bit.ly/bk01Hk
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