Iran news headlines on Thursday includeassassinationof an Iranian IRGC commander in Lebanon; Iran suggestion to progress in UN atom talks; Iran denial ofshipping arms to Islamist militants in Somalia; rise of oil price after Iran nuclear talks and Iran setting upa natural gas liquid project in the Sirri Island in the Persian Gulf. A senior Iranian ...

(Reuters) -Iranhas denied allegations that it has been supplying Islamist militants in Somalia with weapons, describing the charges as "absurd fabrications," according to a letter obtained by Reuters on Thursday. As the United States pushes for an end to the U.N. arms embargo on Somalia, U.N. monitors following Somalia sanctions are warning that Islamist ...