Wall Street Journal: Turkey’s president questioned the effectiveness of sanctions as a tool to curb Tehran’s nuclear ambitions and indicated his country’s relations with Israel won’t improve until the Jewish state apologizes for its deadly May raid on a flotilla trying to reach Gaza.
Turkey questions sanctions on Iran
US presses China on Iran, NKorea sanctions
AP: The Obama administration is pushing China to implement international sanctions against Iran and North Korea as it seeks Chinese advice on how to engage the two countries over their nuclear programs.
Delhi’s Tehran conundrum
Wall Street Journal Europe: India is damned if it doesn’t enforce sanctions on Iran and disadvantaged if it does.
US dismisses Ahmadinejad prisoner swap
AFP: The United States on Monday dismissed a suggestion by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to free Iranians in exchange for two detained hikers as Washington drums up pressure on the Islamic republic.
Clinton did not ask for regime change in Iran: spokesman
AFP: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did not call for regime change in Tehran when she asked at the weekend for “responsible” leaders to assert control in Iran, her spokesman said Monday.
Obama says military action against Iran not ideal
Reuters: President Barack Obama said on Monday that Iran having a nuclear weapon would be a “real problem” but he did not think military action by Israel or the United States was the “ideal way” to solve the crisis.
ANALYSIS-Iran’s Ahmadinejad ahead in political in-fighting
Reuters: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s list of enemies is long, spreading from his feud with the West to reformists at home to emerging rivals in his own hardline camp. But support from Iran’s strong Revolutionary Guards and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei still ensures him the upper hand.
Special report – Tracking Iran’s nuclear money trail to Turkey
Reuters: Turkey and other U.S. allies have been allowing Iranian banks with suspected links to Tehran’s nuclear program to do business within their borders, frustrating Western countries trying to put a financial squeeze on the Islamic Republic, Reuters has learned.
Iran says U.N. atom body in credibility crisis
Reuters: Iran said Monday that the U.N. nuclear watchdog was suffering a crisis of “moral authority and credibility,” underlining increasingly strained ties between Tehran and the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Iran feels pain of sanctions-U.S. Treasury’s Levey
Reuters: Iran is struggling with international sanctions aimed at curbing its nuclear ambitions and pressure on its economy and banking sector is mounting, a senior U.S. Treasury official said on Monday.
