Bloomberg: The U.S. and Israel are disagreeing publicly over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s push to set “red lines” and deadlines for dealing with Iran’s nuclear activities.
Israel Presses U.S. Over Setting ‘Red Lines’ for Iran
Iran says oil prices too low, may rise more
Reuters: Crude oil prices are still low and could rise further, Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi said on Monday, the same day Saudi Arabia said prices are too high and would work to moderate them.
Ahmadinejad accuses the West of ‘stealing Iran’s rain’ again
Daily Mail: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused the West of deliberately destroying rain clouds headed for Iran as part of efforts to plunge the country into drought.
Egypt hosts meeting of 4 nations in new Syria push
AP: Diplomats from Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Egypt held on Monday the first gathering of a quartet of regional heavyweights aiming to work out a resolution for Syria’s civil war.
US rebuffs Israel over Iran ‘red lines’
AFP: Tensions between Israel and the United States over how to deal with Iran’s nuclear program bubbled to the surface Monday, as Washington rebuffed calls for it to declare “red lines.”
Iran in talks to sell oil to Egypt: agency
Reuters: Iran is in talks to sell crude oil to Egypt, Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi was quoted as saying by the Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA) on Monday.
UN atomic watchdog chief ‘frustrated’ by Iran
AFP: The head of the UN atomic agency hit out Monday at Iran’s refusal to grant access to sites and scientists involved in suspected nuclear weapons research, as Western powers looked to turn up the heat on Tehran.
U.S. ‘not setting deadlines’ for Iran, Clinton says
Bloomberg: The U.S. is “not setting deadlines” for Iran and still considers negotiations as “by far the best approach” to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said.
Cobras co-star in Salman Rushdie’s ‘Midnight’s Children’
Bloomberg: A month into shooting the film adaption of Salman Rushdie’s “Midnight’s Children” in Sri Lanka last year, production came to a sudden halt. Iran, a sworn enemy of Rushdie, demanded that the government stop the shoot.
Nuclear-armed Iran ‘not an option’: Westerwelle
AFP: German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said on Sunday that a nuclear-armed Iran was “not an option” as he called on Tehran to hold “substantial negotiations” over its controversial atomic programme.
