Jeffrey Young
VOA, May 15, 2012 - An Iranian opposition group is in U.S. Federal Appeals Court trying to get the State Department to remove its designation as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.  While the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) says it has replaced violence with political activism, the State Department has not de-listed the group.

AP - 17 May 2012
UNITED NATIONS - An expert panel monitoring U.N. sanctions on Iran has reported that Syria continues to be the main destination of illicit Iranian weapons, a Security Council diplomat said Wednesday.

LONDON, May 14 (UPI) – By Baroness Muriel Turner - Outlandish is probably the polite way to describe a claim made by the U.S. State Department during a recent court hearing on the People's Mujahedin of Iran.

By Shahriar Kia
News Blaze, May 11, 2012 - While approximately 2/3 of camp Ashraf residents have been transferred to Camp Liberty and others are under pressure to move, their movable and immovable properties still remain to be unsettled and there are increasing signs that the Iranian regime’s Iraqi affiliates intend to steal, loot and seize this property.

By RICK GLADSTONE

The New York Times, 11 MAY 2012- The lead negotiator for the six-nation group bargaining with Iran over its contentious uranium enrichment program said Friday that she hoped to achieve “the beginnings of the end” of the dispute at the next meeting, to be held in Baghdad on May 23.

The daily Beast, May 12, 2012 - A German-based Iranian is in hiding after his single was deemed an insult to a Shi’a imam. In an interview, the artist says Tehran is instigating outrage—and he fears a fatwa.

McClatchy Newspapers - By ALIREZA JAFARZADEH  May 11, 2012

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced on April 28th that it would resume discussions with Iran on May 14-15, the first in two months since the last meeting over concerns about Tehran's nuclear activities ended in failure.

WASHINGTON, May 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Allegations by the State Department lawyer on lack of access to, and suspicion of existence of weapons and ammunition at Camp Ashraf are absurd and insult the professionalism and integrity of U.S. troops who served at Camp Ashraf, senior U.S. military commanders say in a statement, a copy of which was provided to the U.S. Committee for Camp Ashraf Residents (USCCAR).

Summarized and translated from 
De Welt web site - 10 May, 2011

Iranian dissidents revealed today that Iran’ theocratic government is mounting efforts to acquire nuclear bomb while talks on this issue between the country and western powers continue, reports German De Welt.

By Randy Fabi and Jasmin Choo
SINGAPORE, May 11 (Reuters) - European shipowners could violate impending EU sanctions against Iran without even knowing it every time they set sail, leaving them vulnerable to being blacklisted, the managing director of leading industry group Intertanko said on Friday.