AFP: Iran condemned arch foe the United States on Saturday for conducting a limited nuclear test, saying it showed Washington’s “inattention to full disarmament,” the state television website reported.
Iran condemns US nuclear test
HSBC, Standard Chartered close to resolving Iran claims
Bloomberg: HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA) and Standard Chartered Plc (STAN) may settle U.S. charges involving money-laundering violations and dollar-clearing transactions on behalf of Iranian clients as soon as next week, two people familiar with the negotiations said.
Iran time bomb no longer just a hypothetical
Sydney Morning Herald: Robertson, a QC and probably the world’s best-known human rights lawyer, is now 66. He has lived most of his adult life in London, but was born in Australia. He says Iran’s nuclear ambitions are by far the biggest threat to world security because they will trigger a new arms race.
Iran’s long-range missiles said to lag U.S. intelligence fears
Reuters: An internal report for the U.S. Congress has concluded that Iran probably is no longer on track, if it ever was, to having an ocean-crossing missile as soon as 2015.
Inspecting Iran’s Parchin site would be ‘useful’: IAEA
AFP: UN nuclear inspections at a military complex near Tehran would be “very useful” despite extensive earth-moving work there by Iranian authorities, the head of the UN atomic agency said.
Some foreign firms still active in Iran’s energy sector: U.S. report
Reuters: At least seven companies from China, India, South Korea and South Africa continued to have investments in Iran’s oil and gas sectors in 2012 even as Tehran came under international scrutiny for its nuclear ambitions, a U.S. government watchdog said on Friday.
Iran commander claims sanctions are helpful
AP: A senior commander of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard claimed Friday that Western sanctions are helpful because they promote Iranian self-sufficiency and insisted the country’s leaders should welcome the measures.
U.S. likely to extend Iran sanction waivers-sources
Reuters: The United States is likely to exempt India, South Korea, Turkey and others from Iranian financial sanctions for another six months on Friday as a reward for reducing crude purchases from the Islamic republic, two U.S. government sources said.
Iran oil export delays seen worsening as sanctions hinder trade
Bloomberg: Iranian oil tankers are contending with longer delays in shipments and some are idled amid increasing pressure on buyers to curb purchases from what was once OPEC’s second-biggest producer.
Five charged in US over Iran, China exports
AFP: Five people have been charged in New York in two separate alleged schemes to export illegal shipments of military grade technology to China and Iran, US officials said.
