AP: The slide in the price of oil halted near $90 a barrel Thursday in Asia over renewed worries about oil supplies if military hostilities erupt over Iran’s nuclear program.
Oil stems losses as Iran rhetoric heats up
Netanyahu brings fears about Iran to UN
AP: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will make his case against Iran before the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, arguing that time is quickly running out to stop the Islamic Republic from becoming a nuclear power and the threat of force must be seriously considered.
Vitol trades Iranian fuel oil, skirting sanctions
Reuters: Vitol, the world’s largest oil trader, is buying and selling Iranian fuel oil, undermining Western efforts to choke the flow of petrodollars to Tehran and put pressure on Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program.
Iran seeking new contact group on Syria
AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that Tehran was working to set up a separate contact group on the conflict in Syria, in a move unlikely to be welcomed by many nations.
Ahmadinejad hopes to expand ties with Argentina
AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday said he hoped Iran and Argentina could expand their ties soured for more than a decade by a 1994 attack on a Jewish association in Buenos Aires.
Iran’s foreign investment rose 83% in first half, Tehran Times reports
Bloomberg: Foreign investment in Iran jumped 83 percent to $6.8 billion in the first half of the current Iranian year, which began on March 20, the Tehran Times reported, citing Deputy Economy Minister Behrouz Alishiri.
As thousands protest near UN, Gingrich implores Obama to take stronger action against Iran
AP: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, addressing thousands of protesters near the United Nations on Wednesday, challenged President Barack Obama to take stronger action against Iran and the threat of it becoming a nuclear power.
Anti-Ahmadinejad protesters gather outside UN
AFP: Protesters gathered outside the United Nations on Wednesday to demonstrate against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as he made his last speech as Iranian leader to the UN General Assembly.
Iranian pleads guilty to illegal export of industrial parts
Bloomberg: Saeed Talebi, an Iranian national, pleaded guilty today in Manhattan federal court to conspiring to illegally export from the U.S. to Iran “parts and goods designed for use in industrial operations.”
Iranian president’s press adviser jailed
AP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s top press adviser was taken into custody to begin serving a six-month jail sentence after being convicted of publishing material deemed insulting to the country’s supreme leader.
