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Iran Asks Dutch Gov't to Ban Anti-Islam Film

Feb 17, 2008 2:35 PM CST

Iran Asks Dutch Gov't to Ban Anti-Islam Film

Right-wing pol's movie shows Koran as inspiration for murder

(Newser) - Upset by a right-wing Dutch politician's movie, which portrays the Koran as an inspiration for murder, Iran’s justice minister is asking the Dutch government to ban the film, the BBC reports. The minister called the film, by parliament member Geert Wilders, an unnecessary attack on Islam’s holiest object....

US, Iran Met
on Terror Financing

Feb 16, 2008 7:27 AM CST

US, Iran Met on Terror Financing

Rare encounter last month at a multinational conference

(Newser) - Senior Treasury Department official Daniel Glaser met last month with representatives from Iran to discuss "the significant threat Iran poses to the integrity of the international financial system," Reuters reports. The rare talks, which required special permission from the US government, took place during a meeting of the...

OPEC Holds
Oil Production Steady

Feb 1, 2008 1:00 PM CST

OPEC Holds Oil Production Steady

As expected, consortium rebuffs US call to boost supply

(Newser) - OPEC dashed American hopes for a boost in oil production today, Bloomberg reports. The US and other Western nations wanted more oil on the market to lower prices, but OPEC decided to hold production steady. The consortium, which supplies 40% of the world's oil, is worried that the flagging world...

Deadly Violence Erupts in Beirut

Jan 28, 2008 5:02 AM CST

Deadly Violence Erupts in Beirut

Riots, gun battles in Hezbollah districts

(Newser) - Street protests over power cuts erupted yesterday into deadly violence in Hezbollah strongholds in Beirut with several people killed or wounded—some by sniper fire—as youths torched cars. The Lebanese army mobilized to stop the violence from spreading to Sunni and Christian neighborhoods, reports AFP. Fears of more...

Saddam Faked Nukes to
Scare Iran, Not US: Agent

Jan 25, 2008 5:18 AM CST

Saddam Faked Nukes to Scare Iran, Not US: Agent

Did not believe US would invade over weapons of mass destruction

(Newser) - Saddam Hussein revealed in FBI interrogations that he had no nuclear or biological weapons of mass destruction, but hid that fact to avoid invasion by Iran—and was stunned when the US invaded. "For him, it was critical that he was seen as the strong, defiant Saddam to prevent...

Ahmadinejad Plans First Iraq Trip

Jan 23, 2008 12:52 PM CST

Ahmadinejad Plans First Iraq Trip

First Iranian leader to visit since '80s war; highlights new relations

(Newser) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit Baghdad, the Iraqi foreign ministry announced today, a historic trip that highlights the new relationship between the neighbors, who fought a bloody war in the 1980s. No Iranian president has ever visited Iraq, but with a Shiite government in power after the ouster of...

'Mild' New Iran Sanctions Forged

Jan 23, 2008 8:17 AM CST

'Mild' New Iran Sanctions Forged

Compromise reached on 3rd round to present united front to derail nukes

(Newser) - Six leading world powers have agreed on a draft United Nations resolution for a third round of sanctions against Iran that stop short of the punishing economic measures the US had advocated, the Los Angeles Times reports. The sanctions include some extension of travel and business bans—but in "...

Political Rift
Weakens
Ahmadinejad

Jan 22, 2008 5:57 AM CST

Political Rift Weakens Ahmadinejad

Ayatollah overrules Iranian president on gas for villagers

(Newser) - Iran's firebrand president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad suffered a serious political humiliation yesterday when the nation's supreme leader sided with his opponents to force him to supply a billion dollars worth of natural gas to remote villages suffering power cuts. Iran's poorest communities are enduring one of the harshest winters in years,...

US Makes Canadian Torture List

Jan 18, 2008 6:40 AM CST

US Makes Canadian Torture List

'Torture awareness' manual for diplomats includes US, Syria, Israel, Iran

(Newser) - The US, along with China, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, and Israel, is listed in an official Canadian foreign ministry document of countries where prisoners are at risk of torture, the BBC reports. The "torture awareness" training manual classifies as torture some US interrogation techniques, including forced nudity, isolation, and sleep...

Iran Prez
Lashes Out
at Bush, Israel

Jan 17, 2008 9:20 PM CST

Iran Prez Lashes Out at Bush, Israel

He says Tehran's Mideast foe 'would not dare attack'

(Newser) - Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took aim against two familiar foes with strong rhetoric today, BBC reports. He accused President Bush of "sowing seeds of division" during his Mideast trip and warned Israel not to threaten Tehran. "The Zionist regime would not dare attack," he said after Israel...

Iran Gender Wars Hit High Gear

Jan 17, 2008 5:15 PM CST

Iran Gender Wars Hit High Gear

Female duo driving home inequalities of Islamic republic

(Newser) - Iranian women can't travel without a man's permission, but two female racecar drivers are taking matters into their own hands and fighting for equal opportunity on the track. Nervous officials have repeatedly banned Zoreh Vatankhah and her mentor, Laleh Seddigh, from races—and their successes don't often make the front...

There's Plenty of Oil Left: Study

Jan 17, 2008 9:37 AM CST

There's Plenty of Oil Left: Study

Researchers say new discoveries more than offset worked-out fields

(Newser) - New oilfields being brought online more than offset losses from depleted fields, says an optimistic report released today. Though it cited an Iran-sized 4.5% annual loss, key oil industry adviser CERA contends “there is no impending short-term peak in global oil production," reports the Wall Street Journal....

Iran Sanctions Might Not be Working: GAO

Jan 16, 2008 3:01 PM CST

Iran Sanctions Might Not be Working: GAO

With $20B in energy contracts, economic pressure easy to dodge

(Newser) - Sanctioning Iran may not have actually worked, the Government Accountability Office said yesterday, just as the US pushes for a fresh round of UN sanctions. Restrictions on state-owned banks are easy to circumvent, the report notes, and Iran has signed $20 billion in energy contracts since 2003. The “evidence...

Bush Ending Mideast Tour With Promises,
Few Results

Jan 16, 2008 10:08 AM CST

Bush Ending Mideast Tour With Promises, Few Results

Little action follows rhetoric on historic trip

(Newser) - President Bush will wrap up his tour of the Middle East tomorrow with a quick visit to Egypt, then fly home from his eight-day vision having collected plenty of promises but little in the way of actual results, the AP reports. Bush used the visit to woo Arab support for...

Bush to Israel: NIE Was Wrong

Jan 15, 2008 3:15 PM CST

Bush to Israel: NIE Was Wrong

Prez privately telling Israel he doesn't believe Iran has shut down nukes

(Newser) - President Bush is privately assuring Israel’s leaders that he doesn’t believe the National Intelligence Estimate's conclusion that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003. In disavowing December's NIE, Bush said the “conclusions don't reflect his own views,” a US official told Newsweek. The private pledge...

Bush Asks OPEC for More Oil

Jan 15, 2008 9:32 AM CST

Bush Asks OPEC for More Oil

Warns even rogue Iranian attack would have 'serious consequences'

(Newser) - OPEC should start producing more oil, President Bush told Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah today, or it risks damaging “consuming economies,” like the US. Bush said high oil prices were reducing consumer purchasing power, and said more supply “would be helpful.” He also warned Iran to...

Heckler May Have Menaced Navy Ships

Jan 14, 2008 6:59 PM CST

Heckler May Have Menaced Navy Ships

Voice warned 'You will explode' in standoff with Iranian boats

(Newser) - Threats transmitted during a recent faceoff between US Navy vessels and Iranian boats may have come from a prankster known as the “Filipino Monkey,” the Navy Times reports. Towards the end of last month's faceoff in the Strait of Hormuz, a voice transmitted: “I am coming to...

Stop Iranian Threat Now: Bush

Jan 13, 2008 10:03 AM CST

Stop Iranian Threat Now: Bush

Calls on Arab allies to join US to 'confront danger'

(Newser) - President Bush said today that the US and its Arab allies must stop the threat posed by Iran "before it's too late." Speaking in the United Arab Emirates during his 8-day trip to the Mideast to push his peace plan, Bush called Iran the "world's leading state...

Boat Face-Off Reveals Iran Tactics: US

Jan 12, 2008 5:05 PM CST

Boat Face-Off Reveals Iran Tactics: US

Navy also reveals two December incidents, where shots were fired

(Newser) - Objects tossed from Iranian boats posed no threat to US ships last Sunday, the Navy said yesterday, but did reveal Tehran's warfare tactics. The incident was also one of three between US and Iranian ships over the past month: In the first face-off, Dec. 19, the USS Whidbey Island fired...

Bush Defers on Troop Pullouts, Upbraids Iran

Jan 12, 2008 10:43 AM CST

Bush Defers on Troop Pullouts, Upbraids Iran

'It's fine with me' if general slows down US withdrawal

(Newser) - At a naval base in Kuwait today, President Bush praised the success of US forces in Iraq since the surge and said he would not pressure Gen. David Petraeus to continue troop drawdowns beyond the 30,000 scheduled to be pulled out by July. "My attitude is, if he...