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Iran & Turkey Are the Actual Threat to the Arabs
“The Turks cannot deliver anything that they are offering, advocating for or bragging about. Their rhetoric is void of any actual context and has no credibility at all. Meanwhile, Iran has been playing the same game and using the same rhetoric, but also combined with force and terrorism through its two armed proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas.”
Iranian Raids in Northern Iraq Enrages Iraqi Kurds
SULEIMANIYAH, Iraq — Outrage is growing in Iraq’s northern Kurdish territories over renewed Iranian air and artillery strikes against Kurdish rebels in the remote Qandil Mountains, officials and residents said.
By Yasseen Taha and Hannah Allam | McClatchy Newspapers
U.N. Security Council to Vote on Tougher Iran Sanctions
8 Jun 2010 – New York (CNN) — Diplomats hoping to slap tougher sanctions on Iran because of its nuclear program will vote on a new draft resolution on Wednesday. 
A Year of Lost Chances by Obama in Iran
By Jonathan Schanzeris
June 6, 2010
Saturday will mark one year since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stole a second presidential term in a rigged Iranian election. The response last year was shocking: Hundreds of thousands of angry Iranians flooded the streets. It was the worst 
Khomeini’s Anniversary in Iraqi Kurdistan!
7 June 2010 – Medya News Editorial- This year, the Islamic regime in Iran commemorated the memory of the founder of the theocratic regime, Ayatollah Khomeini who died twenty one years ago, ten year following the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
The various factions of the regime have also turned this day into a match field to settle scores against each other, where each side claims to be the true follower of the cleric.
Report: Iran Smuggling German-made Nuclear Equipment via Dubai
Sunday Telegraph: Dubai intermediary sells Iran components bought from German manufacturer without its knowledge in violation of UN resolutions.
Iranian Clerics Issue Warning to Opposition on Khomeini’s Anniversary
4 June 2010 (BBC) – The Iranian authorities have issued a warning to the opposition at a mass rally in the capital Tehran.
Iran Disputes IAEA Assertion on Nuclear Equipment
4 Jun 2010 (NTI) – Iran yesterday challenged the International Atomic Energy Agency’s assertion in a report issued this week that a Tehran laboratory in recent months housed sensitive equipment that could aid in separating weapon-usable nuclear material, the Associated Press reported (see GSN, June 3).
Ex-McKinsey Consultant Convicted in Iran Trade Case
4 June 2010 (Bloomberg) — Former McKinsey & Co. consultant Mahmoud Reza Banki was convicted by a federal jury in New York of violating the Iran trade embargo and running an unlicensed money-transfer business.
Iran May Exchange 45 Billion Euro in Gold and Dollars
3 June 2010 (IBT) – The Iranian central bank is said to hold a majority of 85 percent of their currency reserves in euro and some other currencies, and only a small part in U.S. dollar, different to most other central banks. This is mostly for 
