AP: In his most detailed plea to date for global action against Iran’s nuclear program, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday the world has until next summer at the latest to stop Iran before it can build a nuclear bomb.
Israel’s Netanyahu draws his “red line” for Iran
Major powers demand urgent Iran action on nuclear fears
AFP: Iran must take urgent action to allay mounting international concerns over its nuclear drive, EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton said Thursday after talks among the major powers.
Turkey’s Erdogan slams Russia, China, Iran over Syria
Reuters: Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan lashed out at Russia, China and Iran on Thursday, saying their stance on the crisis in neighboring Syria was allowing a massacre to go on unabated.
Azerbaijan jails members of terrorist group linked to Iran
Bloomberg: An Azeri court imprisoned members of an Iran-linked group that plotted to kill the head of a Jewish school in the capital, Baku.
A flimsy U.S. sanctions policy toward Iran
Washington Post: Recent revelations from the International Atomic Energy Agency that Iran has both continued and expanded its uranium enrichment activities have focused attention anew on U.S. policy toward the Islamic Republic.
Oil stems losses as Iran rhetoric heats up
AP: The slide in the price of oil halted near $90 a barrel Thursday in Asia over renewed worries about oil supplies if military hostilities erupt over Iran’s nuclear program.
Netanyahu brings fears about Iran to UN
AP: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will make his case against Iran before the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, arguing that time is quickly running out to stop the Islamic Republic from becoming a nuclear power and the threat of force must be seriously considered.
Vitol trades Iranian fuel oil, skirting sanctions
Reuters: Vitol, the world’s largest oil trader, is buying and selling Iranian fuel oil, undermining Western efforts to choke the flow of petrodollars to Tehran and put pressure on Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program.
Iran seeking new contact group on Syria
AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that Tehran was working to set up a separate contact group on the conflict in Syria, in a move unlikely to be welcomed by many nations.
Ahmadinejad hopes to expand ties with Argentina
AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday said he hoped Iran and Argentina could expand their ties soured for more than a decade by a 1994 attack on a Jewish association in Buenos Aires.
