Reuters: The window for negotiations with Iran about its nuclear program cannot stay open for “too much longer,” outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday but she declined to provide a deadline.

AP: The Turkish gunman who shot Pope John Paul II has changed his story once again, saying in a new autobiography that Iran’s late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini personally told him to kill the pope.

Huffington Post: The Iranian opposition satellite television, Simaye Azadi or Iran National Television (INTV) held a telethon program. Viewers were urged to call and send contributions so the channel could maintain its activities.

AFP: The United States on Thursday cast doubt on on Argentina and Iran’s decision to set up a commission to probe the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires.

Reuters: A Hong Kong-based firm that attempted to sell embargoed Hewlett-Packard computer equipment to Iran’s largest mobile-phone operator has much closer ties to China’s Huawei Technologies than was previously known, corporate records show.

Reuters: Iran’s crude oil exports in December leapt to their highest level since European Union sanctions took effect last July, analysts and shipping sources said, as strong Chinese demand and tanker fleet expansion helped the OPEC member dodge sanctions.

AFP: US funds may have served to buy fuel for Afghan security forces from Iran in direct contravention of America’s economic sanctions on Tehran, a US watchdog warned Wednesday.

AFP: Iran’s defense minister will be questioned by an Argentine judge as part of an agreement to investigate a deadly 1994 attack on a Buenos Aires Jewish center, Argentina said Wednesday.