Reuters: President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday international sanctions on Iran would unravel in months following negotiations with world powers on its nuclear program, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Rouhani says Iran sanctions will unravel in months
UN’s Iran rights watchdog slams case of death-row woman
AFP: UN human rights monitor urged Tehran to halt the planned execution of an Iranian woman for the alleged murder of a former intelligence official, saying her trial had been deeply flawed. Shaheed is tasked by the UN with monitoring Iran, and has regularly locked horns with the Islamic republic over its human rights record.
Iran asks UN chief to intervene in envoy row
AFP: Iran on Monday urged United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to intervene directly in a row sparked by America’s refusal to give Tehran’s chosen UN envoy a visa. The spat over Hamid Aboutalebi has undermined a cautious thaw in relations after decades of enmity.
After success on Iran, U.S. Treasury’s sanctions team faces new challenges
Reuters: This is what the modern American war room looks like: the clocks on the wall show the times in Kabul, Tehran and Bogota. The faces around the conference table are mostly young. There is talk of targets, and of middle-of-the-night calls to Europe.
Iran to maintain daily oil sales at 1 million barrels into July
Bloomberg: Iran anticipates maintaining crude exports at about 1 million barrels a day until at least July when a deal with global powers over its nuclear program will be renewed or expire, the nation’s deputy oil minister said.
Israeli minister: Kerry’s remarks on Iran nuke deal ‘not acceptable’
The Hill: An Israeli Cabinet minister said Secretary of State John Kerry’s remarks over the specifics of a nuclear threshold in a final deal with Iran were “not acceptable”. “The things that Kerry said … are worrying. They are surprising. They are not acceptable,” Minister Yuval Steinitz told Israel Radio.
Iranian woman Reyhaneh Jabbari at imminent danger of execution
Death Penalty News: Reports from Iran indicate that the death sentence of the 26 year old Iranian woman Reyhaneh Jabbari can be carried out on Tuesday April 15. Reyhaneh Jabbari, aged 26, was arrested in 2007 for the murder of a former employee of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence.
American’s wish for Iranian burial riles hard-liners
New York Times: Richard Nelson Frye, a renowned American scholar of Iran who died last month in Boston at 94, wanted to be buried at a spot in this country where songbirds sing and dry desert breezes cool the slow afternoons.
Iran needs 30,000 new centrifuges for fuel: official
AFP – Iran will need 30,000 of its new generation centrifuges to meet domestic fuel demands, far more than the current number, its nuclear chief said Sunday. Ali Akbar Salehi’s comments came just days after the latest round of talks in Vienna aimed at securing a long-term deal over Iran’s disputed nuclear programme.
Row over Iran UN pick not impacting nuclear talks: US
AFP – The United States’ refusal to issue a visa to Iran’s pick for UN ambassador is not impacting talks over the country’s disputed nuclear program, Washington’s envoy to the United Nations said Sunday. Washington has said it won’t issue a visa to Hamid Aboutalebi, who has been linked to the 1979 US hostage crisis.
