Los Angeles Times: Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials say the United States and five other nations may have offered too much to Tehran in nuclear negotiations.
Offer to Iran adds tension to U.S.-Israel talks
Saudi arrests 18 spies including Iranian: ministry
AFP: The Saudi authorities have arrested 18 suspected spies, including an Iranian and a Lebanese, on charges of espionage for a foreign country, the interior ministry said on Tuesday.
Iranian envoy sees possible breakthrough on nuclear deal
Bloomberg: Iran for the first time sees the “possibility for a breakthrough” in negotiations next month over its disputed nuclear program, the Islamic Republic’s ambassador to the United Nations said.
Iran’s influence ‘waning’ in Latin America: US general
AFP: Iran is “struggling” to cultivate ties with Latin American countries that are wary of the United States, and Tehran’s influence in the region is on the decline, a top US general said Tuesday.
Nuclear talks: Iran unmoved by world powers’ latest proposal
Christian Science Monitor: World powers and Iran met in Istanbul yesterday to follow up on last month’s talks in Kazakhstan. Despite high hopes, the two sides didn’t find enough common ground.
Iran releases ex-president’s daughter
AP: A lawyer for the daughter of influential Iranian ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani says she has been freed from jail after serving a six-month sentence on charges of making propaganda against the ruling system.
Iran protests Saudi diplomat’s deadly ‘drink driving’
AFP: Iran said Tuesday it has protested to the Saudi embassy about a deadly accident involving one of its diplomats who reports alleged had been “drink driving” when he crashed his vehicle into another.
Khamenei mobilizes loyalists to swing Iran’s election
Reuters: Iran’s supreme leader may have helped Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to win two presidential elections, but he is now bent on stopping his turbulent protege from levering his own man into the job.
Iraq turns blind eye to Iran arms flights to Syria: US
AFP: Baghdad is “looking the other way” as Iran sends military equipment through Iraqi airspace to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime amid the ongoing conflict in Syria, a US official said.
Obama offers Iranians ‘new relationship’
UPI: Iran and the United States can have “a new relationship,” President Obama said, but only if Tehran fully discloses details about its nuclear program.
