Reuters: The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday said it designated an Iranian-owned bank in Germany as facilitating Iran’s efforts to develop nuclear weapons, a move that effectively prevents the firm from doing business with international financial institutions.
U.S. sanctions Iranian-owned bank in Germany
Iran says petrol self-sufficiency achieved
AFP: Oil Minister Masoud Mirkazemi said on Tuesday that Iran has attained self-sufficiency in producing petrol, a commodity targeted by world powers in new sanctions imposed against Tehran.
Iran audit body slams subsidy plan, privatisation work
AFP: Iran’s main audit body has slammed the government’s plan to scrap subsidies from later this month and its policy of privatising state firms, Iranian media reported on Tuesday.
The elephant in the Oval Office
Fox News: As Oval Office speeches go, it wasn’t much. Even so, we will look back on President Obama’s speech announcing the end of the Iraq War as one of great significance. Not because of what he said, but because of what he didn’t say. He didn’t talk about the elephant in the room – IRAN.
U.N. report says Iran is stockpiling enriched uranium
Washington Post: Iran is steadily stockpiling enriched uranium, even in the face of toughened international sanctions, according to a U.N. inspection report that raises new concerns about the ability to monitor parts of the nation’s nuclear program that could be used to make a bomb.
China to build $2bn railway for Iran
Daily Telegraph: China is poised to sign a $2bn (£1.3bn) deal to build a railway line in Iran in the first step of a wider plan to tie the Middle East and Central Asia to Beijing.
Iran claims right to vet UN nuclear inspectors
AFP: Iran said on Tuesday that it was within its rights to vet UN inspectors who monitor its nuclear facilities after the UN watchdog said its work was being hampered by the barring of some of its staff.
Lawyer says Iranian woman could be stoned soon
AP: The lawyer for an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned on an adultery conviction says he and her children are worried the delayed execution could be carried out soon.
Iran needs to heed IAEA demands- Russia foreign min
Reuters: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that Iran needs to answer the demands of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over its nuclear programme.
Iran boosts atom work, bomb fears remain -IAEA
Reuters: Iran is pushing ahead with its nuclear programme in defiance of tougher sanctions, the U.N. atomic watchdog said in a new report that Washington called “troubling” but Tehran dismissed as “not balanced”.
