AFP: India said Tuesday it would cut purchases of Iranian oil by 11 percent following pressure from the United States to join a drive to isolate the Islamic republic over its disputed nuclear programme.
India says it will cut Iran oil purchases by 11%
Iran hangs man for killing nuclear scientist
AP: Iran has hanged a man who was sentenced to death for the 2010 killing of a nuclear physicist, state TV reported Tuesday.
U.S. unimpressed with India’s efforts to cut Iran oil buys – envoy
Reuters: The United States is not impressed with India’s efforts to cut its oil imports from Iran, a top U.S. diplomat said on Tuesday, throwing into doubt whether New Delhi would be given a waiver from U.S. financial sanctions before a June deadline.
Injustice in Washington is a threat to justice everywhere
UPI: Outlandish is probably the polite way to describe a claim made by the U.S. State Department during a recent court hearing on the People’s Mujahedin of Iran.
Timing of nuclear claim puts Tehran on the spot
New York Times: To the untrained eye it could be an industrial boiler or a storage tank. But an unidentified official says the picture above shows an explosives chamber used by Iran to conduct nuclear weapons-related tests.
Iranian officials visit the IAEA in Vienna for nuclear talks
CNN: An Iranian delegation met with officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria, on Monday as diplomatic wrangling continues over Tehran’s controversial nuclear program.
Iran’s Parchin site may top UN inspectors’ meeting agenda
Bloomberg: A United Nations visit to Iran’s Parchin military complex may top the agenda of a two-day meeting between Iranian diplomats and UN nuclear inspectors.
UN inspectors to press Iran on military site access
Reuters: The U.N. atomic watchdog will press its demand for access to an Iranian military site in talks starting on Monday that could influence the prospects for a broader diplomatic push to settle the decade-old stand-off over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
Iran turns off tracking systems on tankers: report
AFP: In a bid to circumvent crippling international sanctions, Iran has been routinely switching off satellite tracking systems on its sea-bound oil tankers, The Washington Post reported.
Revealed: how Bush offered to bring Iran back into the international fold
Independent: Iran spurned a previously undisclosed American offer from President George W Bush of talks aimed at reaching a “grand bargain” over long-standing differences between Washington and Tehran, a leading figure in the country’s theocratic regime has revealed.
