New York Sun: The Iranian government has presented an Iranian-American journalist working for an American-funded radio station with a choice between her 95-year-old mother and prison. ‘Filthy trick’: Iran targets 95-year-old mother of journalist
New York Sun: The Iranian government has presented an Iranian-American journalist working for an American-funded radio station with a choice between her 95-year-old mother and prison. Iran inflation surges on Ahmadinejad subsidies, price controls
Bloomberg: On a deserted Tehran street, an ex- geologist named Reza was hawking black-market fuel from the back of a battered van — for about four times the legal price. Iran team leaves without US talks on Iraq
AFP: An Iranian delegation left Baghdad for home on Thursday without holding talks with officials from archfoe the United States on the security situation in Iraq, an Iranian official said.Iraqi official: US-Iran talks postponed
AP: A meeting brokered by Baghdad between Iran and the United States over Iraq’s security was postponed Thursday, an Iraqi government official said, a day after Washington insisted no such talks were planned. Iran says sanctions will not affect oil sector
Reuters: Iran’s oil minister said on Thursday the latest U.N. sanctions on Tehran over its disputed nuclear plans would not affect the oil sector in the world’s fourth-largest crude producer. Iranian and Saudi foreign ministers meet in Cairo
Reuters: The foreign ministers of Iran and Saudi Arabia held talks at Cairo airport on Wednesday, Egyptian officials said, in a possible attempt to resolve a political crisis in Lebanon. Once a terrorist, always a terrorist?
Daily Telegraph: Iran’s main opposition group has renounced violence and the courts say it poses no threat – yet the Government wants it to remain outlawed. Mission for Iran
Washington Times: An unlikely duo of a Scottish conservative and a Portuguese socialist from the European Parliament today open a campaign in Washington to build support for the removal of the main Iranian resistance group from a terrorist blacklist. World Bank says has no plans for new loans to Iran
Reuters: The World Bank fully complies with United Nations sanctions on Iran and has no plans to approve new loans to the country, the poverty-fighting institution said in a document on its Web site. UN Iran resolution disregarded IAEA – S.Africa
Reuters: South Africa expressed reservations on Wednesday about a U.N. resolution that imposed new sanctions on Iran over its disputed nuclear plans after voting for it. 