Reuters: The United States has targeted only one bank in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Noor Islamic Bank, over its business dealings with Iran, a UAE official said on Wednesday.

Bloomberg: Iran has offered to provide 80,000 barrels of crude oil per day to neighboring Pakistan on three month payment terms, The News reported, citing Pakistan’s minister for petroleum and natural resources, Asim Hussain.

Bloomberg:Japan’s crude imports from Iran in January fell 22.5 percent from a year ago to 1.67 million kiloliters, according to data from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

Reuters: Iran will take payment from its trading partners in gold instead of dollars, the Iranian state news agency IRNA quoted the central bank governor as saying on Tuesday.

Reuters: Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Tuesday that talks between Iran and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany over Tehran’s disputed nuclear programme may resume in April.

AFP: Iran challenged Azerbaijan on Tuesday over $1.5 billion in arms it said were purchased from arch-foe Israel, state media reported, in a sign of further strains between the neighbouring countries.

AP: A retired British businessman accused of trying to sell missile batteries to Iran in 2006 made his first appearance in a U.S. court Tuesday in a case that has drawn intense international interest.

AFP: Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said Tuesday he was optimistic that talks with the international community over its controversial atomic activities would go ahead.

UPI: White House spokesman Jay Carney said Tuesday the United States is determined to keep Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons but there is still time for diplomacy.