AP: Akbar Torkan, a senior trade official, is quoted by the semiofficial ISNA news agency as saying that the new terminal will be at Bandar Jask port on the Oman Sea. Iran’s sole major crude export terminal is at Khark Island in the Persian Gulf.
Iran plans new oil terminal to bypass Hormuz
Lessons of history: Americans fear ‘second Holocaust’ if Iran gets the bomb
CNN: Such history is worth noting in today’s showdown with Iran. Many in the West seem beguiled by the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani. But are they truly interested in peace, or buying time to build the Bomb?
South Korea takes on more Iranian crude
UPI: The South Korean government said Tuesday its February imports of Iranian oil more than doubled year-on-year to 8.1 million barrels. Iran secured relief from some international sanctions in exchange for agreeing in November to curb some of its nuclear research activity.
Russia’s aggression challenges Obama’s foreign policy
Bloomberg: Europe’s interest in diplomacy with the U.S. on curbing nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea, ending the Syrian civil war, resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and keeping Asia stable to protect the global economy will continue, Pavel said.
Iran’s ties to al-Qaida pose nagging questions
Voice of America: As the U.S. and the West continue negotiations with Iran over its controversial nuclear program, the specter of Iran’s ties to terrorism – and specifically al-Qaida – lingers in the background, analysts and U.S. officials say.
Hedge fund’s $100 million bet: Iran will pay for terror attack
Wall Street Journal: A U.S. hedge fund plans to bet as much as $100 million that it can collect on a court judgment against Iran for one of the deadliest terrorist attacks ever aimed at Americans, according to marketing documents and people familiar with the matter.
New Year a dud as nuclear optimism fails to tip scales in Iran
Bloomberg: The scarcity of shoppers at the food market near Hafez Street ahead of the March 20 start of the Nowruz holiday was a reminder to President Hassan Rouhani of the scale of Iran’s economic woes.
Supporters of a free Iran demand U.S. honor promises
InsideEmbassyRow: American supporters of a free Iran are demanding that President Obama honor U.S. promises to provide political refuge to Iranian dissidents crowded into a relocation camp in Iraq where they face daily threats against their lives.
Fugitive Sunni cleric slams Lebanese army in video message
AFP: A radical Sunni cleric wanted by Lebanese authorities since deadly clashes last year between his supporters and security forces Sunday accused the army of being a “tool” “tool” of Iran and its Lebanese ally, Hezbollah.
Nuclear Iran: the sanctions delusion
American Thinker: Rather than economic sanctions, it was President Obama’s surrender during the Syrian chemical weapons crisis that moved Iran to negotiate with a president who converted the United States from the world’s only superpower into a paper tiger.
