Reuters: Iran has banned the production of Valentine’s Day gifts and any promotion of the day celebrating romantic love to combat what it sees as a spread of Western culture, Iranian media reported.
Iran bans production of Valentine’s Day gifts
UN panel in Nigeria to probe Iranian arms seizure
Reuters: A United Nations panel of experts on Iran met with Nigeria’s foreign minister on Monday as part of a mission to assess whether an arms shipment seized last year in the West African country put Tehran in breach of U.N. sanctions.
Iran: Sanctions won’t stop nuclear drive
AP: Iran’s president says not even 100,000 U.N. Security Council resolutions will stop his country’s nuclear ambitions.
Afghan businessmen halt business with Iran to protest fuel blockade
AP: Afghan businessmen have vowed to stop doing business with neighbouring Iran until it stops blocking thousands of fuel trucks from crossing into Afghanistan.
Iran to develop all of South Pars gas field by 2015, Shana says
Bloomberg: Iran plans to complete the development of its South Pars gas field by March 2015, the oil ministry’s news website Shana reported, citing National Iranian Oil Co. Managing Director Ahmad Qalebani.
Ahmadinejad, Medvedev agree to boost ties: report
AFP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev agreed to boost ties between their countries, in a a telephone conversation, state media reported on Monday.
Iran says it will end Afghan fuel blockade
AP: Iran told the Afghan government on Tuesday that it will stop blocking thousands of tanker trucks trying to move fuel into Afghanistan, authorities announced.
Man hanged in southern Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 18 – Iranian authorities hanged a man in the southern province of Kerman, according to a statement released Tuesday by the local branch of the judiciary.
IAEA chief says has limited knowledge of Stuxnet
Reuters: The U.N. nuclear watchdog has only limited knowledge of the Stuxnet computer worm, the agency chief was quoted on Monday as saying, after reports that the cyber attack had slowed Iran’s nuclear programme.
India Essar says oil supplies from Iran not hit
Reuters: India’s Essar Oil’s crude imports from Iran have not been hit, its managing director Naresh Nayyar said on Monday.
