Wall Street Journal: An Iranian trade delegation to India has sealed deals to buy shipments of rice, sugar and soybean from the South Asian country, as part of a plan for Tehran to use such pacts to get around U.S. financial sanctions on its oil shipments.
India, Iran sign trade deals
Hollande and Iran
New York Times: In the run-up to the French presidential election, the Iranian newspaper Tehran Emrooz wrote that “emphasis must be given to the advantages of a victory by François Hollande.”
U.S. institute says sees “new activity” at Iran site
Reuters: A U.S. security institute says commercial satellite imagery shows new activity at an Iranian military site which raises concern that the Islamic state may be “washing” a building the United Nations’ nuclear agency wants to inspect.
Biden pledges to prevent Iranian nuke ‘by whatever means necessary’
Los Angeles Times: Vice President Joe Biden, seeking to reaffirm the White House’s support for Israel and, in turn, its tough stance on Iran’s alleged efforts to gain nuclear weapons, promised economic sanctions would have an effect on the Iranian regime and predicted the current leadership’s fall within two years.
Boehner warns of Iranian threat to democracy in Americas
Bloomberg: Iran poses one of three major threats to democracy in Latin America, along with drug cartels and the danger of U.S. disengagement from the region, House Speaker John Boehner said.
UN inspector dies in Iran car crash: atomic agency
AFP: A UN nuclear inspector was killed and another injured in a car accident in central Iran on Tuesday, the country’s Atomic Energy Organisation said.
Reports: IAEA inspector killed in Iran car crash
AP: Iranian media have reported that a South Korean U.N. nuclear inspector has been killed and another injured in a car crash in central Iran.
Iran accepting yuan for some oil sold to China-diplomat
Reuters: Iran is accepting payments in yuan for some of the crude oil it supplies to China, the Iranian ambassador to the United Arab Emirates said on Tuesday.
India vows cuts in Iranian-oil imports as clinton visits
Bloomberg: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on India to further pressure Iran over its nuclear program after officials said the South Asian nation will curtail its imports of Iranian oil by 20 percent.
Afghan-US pact strains ties with Tehran
AFP: Relations between Afghanistan and Iran have been strained by Kabul’s strategic pact with the United States, officials said Tuesday, charging that Tehran has harassed Afghan diplomats in recent weeks.
