U.S. says energy sanctions on Iran still on table

Reuters: The presidents of the United States and Russia discussed the possibility of imposing energy sanctions on Iran during a summit in Prague on Thursday and the category has not been ruled out, a senior U.S. official said. PRAGUE (Reuters) – The presidents of the United States and Russia discussed the possibility of imposing energy sanctions on Iran during a summit in Prague on Thursday and the category has not been ruled out, a senior U.S. official said.

"We discussed energy today … It is not off the table. Where it ends out, I honestly don't know, but it is not a category that has been taken off the table today," the official said.

The official said presidents Barack Obama of the United States and Dmitry Medvedev of Russia had also considered a joint statement on violent events in Kyrgyzstan. But no statement was eventually released.

The official said the United States did not consider events in Kyrgyzstan to be a Russian-backed coup aimed against the United States.

(Reporting by Caren Bohan, writing by Jan Lopatka)