NCRI - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has intervened to stop billions of euros of oil payments from reaching Iranian accounts via Germany, a newspaper reported on Tuesday, according to Reuters.

Citing government sources, Handelsblatt business daily said Germany will no longer authorise its central bank, the Bundesbank, to clear the payments headed to Hamburg-based EIH.

According to Reuters, the apparent reversal has not come without a cost for German companies, which according to Handelsblatt now face hundreds of millions of dollars in bills outstanding for products ordered from Iran.

Reuters added, “The move will increase pressure on Tehran, already under a series of U.N sanctions for refusing to freeze its uranium enrichment program.”

NCRI - Egypt will not be ruled by another Khomeini, the country's military said on Monday, in reference to the founder of the Iranian theocracy.

"Egypt will not be governed by another Khomeini," the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces said after a three-hour meeting with newspaper editors-in-chief and MENA, AFP reported on Monday.

"The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces will not allow extremist factions to control Egypt," Deputy Defence Minister Mohammed Mokhtar al-Mella told the journalists on Monday.

According to AFP, the military rulers made the comment amid concerns over the increased visibility of the Muslim Brotherhood. The news agency added that the Brotherhood says it is not in favour of a religious state.

NCRI - State-run news agency Fars - April 5,reported , A member of the Energy Committee of the mullahs’ parliament disclosed that subsequent to removing fuel from the Bushehr nuclear facilities, its operation is now delayed for another year.

Speaking at the Energy Committee of the mullahs Majlis, Hamid Reza Katouzian said: “It is expected to discuss the reason for removal of fuel from Bushehr nuclear facilities in this session of the committee since…removal of fuel from the nuclear plant at Bushehr delays operation of the plant for another year and we will be back to where we started.”

Katouzian added: “It seems that what the Russians are doing for making the Bushehr nuclear facilities ready is not much of cooperation with Iran…It seems that no intention of cooperation in Iran is found in the Russians for making the Bushehr facilities operational.