AP: Iran and six world powers are meeting for a second day in attempts to find common ground over concerns that Tehran’s nuclear program might be used to make weapons.
Iran-6-power nuke talks resume, prospects unclear
Justin Elliot’s folly and journalistic McCarthyism
Stop Fundamentalism: Journalists are taught to be objective, impartial and balanced. But what do you call a so-called reporter who appears to have an axe to grind, and uses the guise of investigative journalism as a means to cover up his own agenda?
Egypt Islamists stone Iranian envoy’s house: police
AFP: Egyptian Islamist protesters threw stones at the house of Iran’s envoy in Cairo on Friday and tried to scale the villa’s walls but were blocked by police, a police official said.
Iran crude exports to rebound in April from March slump
Reuters: Iran’s April crude exports will rebound to above 1 million barrels per day (bpd), industry sources said on Friday, after falling in March to the lowest level seen since the West imposed sanctions to reduce the oil flow in 2012.
Pyongyang ‘forced’ to confront US: Iran general
The Nation: North Korea has no choice but to “confront” the United States which is to blame for tensions in the Korean peninsula, a top Iranian commander said in remarks carried on Friday by Fars news agency.
15 Afghans die in fiery Iran crash: reports
AFP: A pickup truck smuggling fuel crashed on Friday into a car carrying 15 Afghans in southeastern Iran, bursting into flames and killing all on board as well as three Iranians, media reported.
World powers and Iran seek solution at Kazakh talks
AFP: Iran and world powers met in Kazakhstan Friday for new talks seeking an elusive breakthrough on the Iranian nuclear crisis, with Tehran defiantly insisting its rights must be recognised.
World powers await Iran’s reaction to nuclear offer
Reuters: World powers will urge Iran on Friday to accept their offer to ease some economic sanctions if it stops its most sensitive nuclear work, in talks aimed at easing tensions that threaten to boil over into war.
Insight: Syrian government guerrilla fighters being sent to Iran for training
Reuters: The Syrian government is sending members of its irregular militias for guerrilla combat training at a secret base in Iran, in a move to bolster its armed forces drained by two years of fighting and defections, fighters and activists said.
India to set up insurance fund for refiners of Iranian crude
Bloomberg: India will set up an insurance fund worth 20 billion rupees ($364 million) to cover refiners buying crude from Iran, a move that may help them continue purchasing from the Persian Gulf state.
