Make your voice heard:No war on Iran! For regime change from below! - Yassamine Mather, 24th Jan 2012

The war drums against Iran are beating ever louder. The new embargo on Iranian oil, to come into force on July 1, is only the latest in a long list of measures imposed by US and EU imperialism. It bans all new oil contracts with Iran, and cuts off all existing deals. Also, all of the Iranian central bank’s European assets are to be frozen. We are told that the sanctions are designed to weaken the regime and “force Iran back to the negotiating table” over its nuclear programme. This is clearly nonsense:

'Eamon Gilmore Misleads the Dail and the Irish People; by Shannonwatch.org, 23 Jan 2012

Hands off the People of Iran - Ireland - www.hopi-ireland.org

The Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs & Trade Eamon Gilmore made a number of misleading statements to the Dail today (23 January 2012) in response to questions by Mick Wallace TD. We would like to correct these statements.

Mr Gilmore stated: "There are no plans to change the arrangements for the overflight and landing of US military aircraft, which have been continuously in place under successive Governments for over 50 years."

Iranian War Rhetoric is ridiculous says Iranian Ambassador, 23rd Jan 2012

Iran's ambassador to Beirut has dismissed as “ridiculous” speculations about a possible military strike against Iran, stressing that the West is thinking of ways to reach consensus with Tehran.

Iranian nuclear facility official killed in ‘magnetic bomb’ attack, The Journal, 11th Jan 2012 by Ali Akbar Dareinili

TWO ASSAILANTS on a motorcycle attached magnetic bombs yesterday to the car of an Iranian university professor working at a key nuclear facility, killing him and wounding two others, a semiofficial news agency reported.

The attack in Tehran strongly resembles earlier killings of scientists working on the country’s controversial nuclear program.

The bomb explosion killed Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a chemistry expert and a director of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, the semiofficial Fars news agency reported.

Iran’s non-oil exports exceed $28 billion in 8 months, Tehran Times, 11th Dec 2011

Iran exported over $28 billion worth of non-oil exports in the first eight months of the current calendar year (began March 21, 2011), up 35 percent compared with the same period last year.

The country also imported some $40 billion worth of goods in the mentioned period of time, showing six percent fall year on year, the IRNA news agency reported.

Exports of technical and engineering services amounted to $2.9 billion in the eight-month period, the report added.