- TIMESONLINE: Secret document exposes Iran’s nuclear trigger
...The notes, from Iran’s most sensitive military nuclear project, describe a four-year plan to test a neutron initiator, the component of a nuclear bomb that triggers an explosion. Foreign intelligence agencies date them to early 2007, four years after Iran was thought to have suspended its weapons programme...(Full Article).
- LAT: Iran says it accepts West's fuel enrichment proposal
But Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki spoke of exchanging the material in phases rather than all at once, which could leave Iran in control of enough uranium to make a bomb...(Full Article).
- WSJ: West Decries Iran's Latest Nuclear Offer
Western officials said the Iranian foreign minister's weekend comments that Tehran would be willing to make a uranium trade in small batches, and on Iranian soil, fell well short of their demands...(Full Article).
- THE MEMRI BLOG: Al-Sharq Al-Awsat: Senior IRGC Official Held Meeting with Counterparts in Hizbullah, Houthi Rebel Forces
- ALSUMARIA: US calls Iraq to humanely relocate Iran opposition
- TELEGRAPH: US special forces train Yemen army as Arab state becomes al-Qaeda 'reserve base'
US special forces have been sent to Yemen to train its army amid fears the unstable Arab state is becoming a strategically important base for al-Qaeda...(Full Article).
- PRESS TV: Houthis: Riyadh keeps dropping phosphorus bombs
Yemen's Houthi fighters say Saudi Arabia continues to strike Yemeni villages using phosphorus bombs, as the fight between security forces and fighters goes on in northern Yemen...(Full Article).
- REUTERS: Iran's intelligence minister hits at Rafsanjani
Iran's intelligence minister lashed out at former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on Thursday, in comments underlining deep establishment rifts in the Islamic Republic after its disputed June election...(Full Article).
- TODAY'S ZAMAN: Mottaki unclear about Turkey’s role in nuke issue
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has given an ambiguous response to questions on Turkey’s possible role in the dispute surrounding his country’s controversial nuclear program, as he underlined Tehran’s determination to press ahead with the program the West suspects is aimed at making bombs...(Full Article).
- DAWN: CIA drone strikes may be expanded to Quetta: report
Senior US officials are pushing to expand CIA drone strikes beyond Pakistan’s tribal region and into a major city in an attempt to pressure the Pakistani government to pursue Taliban leaders based in the city of Quetta, The Los Angeles Times reported late Sunday...(Full Article).
- WSJ: For U.S. Troops in Afghanistan, Supplies Are Another Battle
- NAHARNET: Hariri: Riyadh Hasn't Put Conditions on its Support for Lebanon
Prime Minister Saad Hariri has said that Saudi Arabia hasn't put conditions on its support for Lebanon and never interfered in the country's internal affairs.
Hariri told the Saudi daily Okaz that King Abdullah has supported Lebanon in the most difficult circumstances and will continue to back the country's independence and sovereignty...(Full Article).
- JPOST: Hamas rally planned in Gaza Strip, group promises "surprises"
- NAHARNET: Hariri's Damascus Visit Not Soon
One thing is for sure. Prime Minister Saad Hariri will visit Damascus, but not anytime soon. Some observers believe that the visit had been postponed pending the resolution of a number of issues, including Hariri's return from Copenhagen summit, President Michel Suleiman's arrival from Washington and a Cabinet meeting to pave the way for the trip and set a date for the visit and its agenda...(Full Article).
- NAHARNET: Maronite League: Incomplete Success in Achieving Christian Reconciliation
The Maronite League has admitted to not being fully successful in efforts to achieve inter-Christian reconciliation and called for an election law that allows Christians to choose their own representatives. Following its yearly meeting on Sunday, the League said it never saved an effort "in achieving Christian reconciliation."...(Full Article).
- NAHARNET: Qassem: We Hope Suleiman Will do More Than Just Listen to U.S.
Hizbullah deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem expressed hope that President Michel Suleiman will do more than just listen to U.S. officials during his visit to Washington next week...(Full Article).
- NAHARNET: Jumblat to Make On-Air Apology to Assad
- REUTERS: Israel-bound Turkish ship capsizes off Lebanon
An Israel-bound Turkish cargo ship has capsized in international waters some 80 km (50 miles) off the Lebanese shore and all but one of crew are missing, an Israeli military source said on Saturday...(Full Article).
- THE AGE: Dubai to pay debt with $10 billion aid from Abu Dhabi
The Dubai government said it will pay 4.1 billion US dollars to cover Islamic bonds issued by its Nakheel property developer which mature Monday after receiving 10 billion US dollars from oil-rich Abu Dhabi...(Full Article).
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