Reuters: The European Union is poised to ban imports of Iranian gas as part of a set of new measures to ratchet up pressure on the Islamic Republic over its nuclear programme, diplomats said on Thursday.
EU poised to agree ban on Iranian gas imports
Iranians abandon meat for bread as Rial drop fires protests
Bloomberg: Iran’s freefalling currency is turning meat into a luxury, sparking overnight price surges and spurring shoppers to stockpile goods.
Europe weighs more sanctions as Iran’s currency plummets
Bloomberg: The U.K., France and Germany are pressing for new sanctions to bring Iran’s economy to its knees and curb its nuclear ambitions, according to several European diplomats, as rioting over the country’s tumbling currency suggests the existing sanctions are taking a toll.
Russia’s Lavrov skipped big powers’ Iran meeting at U.N.
Reuters: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stayed away from a meeting of six world powers on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly last week because he had to attend another “urgent matter,” Russia’s U.N. mission said on Wednesday.
Trade association condemns Tehran unrest as enemy plot: report
Reuters: An Islamic trade association in Iran strongly condemned the protests that flared in Tehran’s main bazaar as an enemy conspiracy and said traders had dealt with the “treacherous” acts, Iran’s state news agency reported late on Wednesday.
Is a gang of 22 destroying Iran’s currency?
Bloomberg: Life used to be so much simpler for an Iranian theocrat. Whenever trouble arose, you could blame it all on one villain: the “Great Satan” that is the U.S. Today, however, it appears that the devil has minions.
US court orders Iran, others to pay $6 billion for 9/11
AFP: A US judge formally ordered Iran, Al-Qaeda and several other defendants Wednesday to pay $6 billion compensation to the victims of September 11, 2001, in a largely symbolic ruling.
Iran tightens grip to stem currency fall
AP: Iranian authorities used aggressive measures Wednesday in an attempt to halt the nosedive of the country’s currency, making arrests, vowing to stamp out sidewalk money changers and warning merchants against fueling the mounting public anger over the economy.
Clinton to Iran: Economic woes are your fault
AP: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says Iranian leaders are to blame for the sinking Iranian economy and rising economic protests.
US urges EU to shelter Iran dissidents stranded in Iraq
AFP: A US official urged European nations Wednesday to offer shelter to Iranian dissidents housed for decades in a camp in Iraq and last week removed from a Washington terrorist blacklist.
