The Latest from Iran (17 December): Regime to World --- You Need Us
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 6:32See also The Latest from Iran (16 December): Re-Visiting the Drone
2025 GMT: The House Arrests. Saham News, the outlet of opposition figure Mehdi Karroubi, reports from a source that Karroubi and fellow 2009 Presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi may soon be released from strict house arrest.
Karroubi and his wife Fatemeh and Mousavi and his wife Zahra Rahnavard have been held since mid-February.
1630 GMT: All-is-Well Alert. Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has said that Iran is prepared for further international sanctions: "We are not really worried. Appropriate responses have been prepared for the worst case scenario, and we have devised a road map."
Salehi did not explain how the "road map" would deal with new sanctions imposed by the US, Canada, Britain, France, and South Korea in recent weeks.