Eye On Iran: Toyota Stops Shipments to Iran

For continuing coverage follow us on Twitter and join our Facebook group. Top Stories WSJ: "Bowing to growing international pressure over Iran's nuclear development program, Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday that it suspended car exports to the Middle Eastern nation. 'In light of the current situation' exports have been halted, a spokeswoman for the Japanese auto maker said. Toyota shipped about 220 cars to Iran so far this year until the suspension took effect in June." http://bit.ly/ak6yxW WSJ: "Iran's new ambassador to Iraq promised to double trade volume and bolster economic ties between the two countries, the latest economic outreach by Tehran as its influence here grows. The move also comes amid fresh sanctions against Iran by the United Nations, the U.S. and the European Union, aimed at curbing Tehran's nuclear ambitions. Analysts said Tehran could be redoubling efforts at building economic ties with Baghdad to help limit the impact of those measures." http://bit.ly/dql615 LAT: "Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday called on Iran to release all political prisoners and expressed alarm about the fate of several specific detainees. Clinton said the U.S. believes that several Iranians are in danger of imminent execution for speaking out against the disputed June 2009 presidential election. She named three: Jafar Kazemi, Mohammad Haj Aghaei and Javad Lari." http://bit.ly/bcb7YK Nuclear Program The Telegraph: "A senior commander said Iran would arm the copy vessel with missiles and torpedoes as it continues to build its military presence in the Strait of Hormuz. General Ali Fadavi of the Revolutionary Guards's navy, told AFP: 'The Bladerunner is a British ship that holds the world speed record. We got a copy [on which] we made some changes so it can launch missiles and torpedoes. The Revolutionary Guards will be equipped with many' of them within a year, he said at a ceremony marking the delivery of 12 other speed boats equipped with missiles and torpedoes to the Guards." http://bit.ly/bAj57k AFP: "An advisor to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denied on Tuesday expressing Tehran's readiness for nuclear talks with the United States, the official news agency IRNA reported. 'This report that 'we are ready for talks with America about the nuclear program' is denied,' the office of Ali Akbar Velayati said in a statement." http://bit.ly/aHtexo Human Rights AP: "Brazil has formally offered asylum to a woman sentenced to death in Iran on an adultery conviction. The official news service Agencia Brasil reports that Brazilian ambassador to Iran Antonio Luis Espinola Salgado made the offer Monday." http://bit.ly/cGimB6 MacLean's: "Hossein Derakhshan, the Iranian Canadian who helped launch a blogging revolution in Iran, is on trial in Tehran, almost two years after he was arrested. According to the government-linked Fars News Agency, charges against him include working with hostile governments, spreading propaganda against the Islamic regime, and launching and managing obscene websites. The trial opened on June 23 and is expected to end shortly." http://bit.ly/9nYGT7 Domestic Politics Bloomberg: "Iran's armed forces joint chief of staff, General Hassan Firouzabadi, said comments by a top aide to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that suggested Iran was superior among the world's Muslim countries were a 'crime against national security.' Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaei said yesterday that 'without Iran, Islam would be lost,' and that if 'we want to present the truth of Islam to the world, we should erect the Iranian flag,' the state-run Mehr news agency reported. 'Countries are scared of Iran, because the truth of Islam is here,' the aide said." http://bit.ly/adf8Un Foreign Affairs LAT: "Iran, reacting to the cutoff of U.S. aid to the Lebanese military, told Lebanese officials on Tuesday that it will make up for the potential $100 million loss. The promise came one day after disclosures that Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Nita Lowey (R-NY) chairwoman of the Appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations, had decided to freeze the money because of concerns that the U.S. aid might be buying arms that could be turned against Israel." http://bit.ly/aLQ9qi Opinion WSJ Editorial Board: "A month after President Obama signed into law a fresh round of Iran sanctions, the new restrictions appear to be getting Tehran's attention. Gasoline imports into the Islamic Republic fell nearly 50% in July from May, according to Energy Market Consultants. Despite being a major oil producer, Iran needs to import at least 30% of its refined gasoline for domestic consumption, and the sanctions are putting further strains on the regime. To which we say, more please." http://bit.ly/cdj947 Robert D. Kaplan in The Atlantic: "Iran can be contained. The path to follow? A course laid out half a century ago by a young Henry Kissinger, who argued that American chances of checking revolutionary powers such as the Soviet Union depended on our credible willingness to engage them in limited war." http://bit.ly/a5VQX8 Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic: "For the Obama administration, the prospect of a nuclearized Iran is dismal to contemplate- it would create major new national-security challenges and crush the president's dream of ending nuclear proliferation. But the view from Jerusalem is still more dire: a nuclearized Iran represents, among other things, a threat to Israel's very existence. In the gap between Washington's and Jerusalem's views of Iran lies the question: who, if anyone, will stop Iran before it goes nuclear, and how? As Washington and Jerusalem study each other intensely, here's an inside look at the strategic calculations on both sides-and at how, if things remain on the current course, an Israeli air strike will unfold." http://bit.ly/dznFGJ Abbas Djavadi for Radio Farda: "Even as the latest UN, U.S., and European Union sanctions against Iran create new hardships for the country's economy, most Iranians outside the government seem to place the blame for the situation on President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's uncompromising policies. At the same time, officials are trying mightily to ignore or downplay the effects of the sanctions." http://bit.ly/cL9qFh Eye on Iran is a periodic news summary from United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) a program of the American Coalition Against Nuclear Iran, Inc., a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. 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