New York Times: The Hyundai Motor Company, the automaking subsidiary of Hyundai, the South Korean conglomerate, has quietly ended its business dealings with Iran, where it had extensive operations, including a joint venture to make cars.

Reuters: An Iranian tanker carrying Syrian crude oil is being held in Egyptian waters because it has not paid the Suez Canal Authority the fees required for passage, the Egyptian authority said on Monday.

AFP: The Tehran bureau of international news agency Reuters has been “suspended indefinitely” because of a report it issued mischaracterising Iranian female ninjas as “terrorists,” authorities said on Monday.

UPI: Iran won’t allow Saudi Arabia to carry out Western-backed plots in Syria, the head of the Iranian Parliament’s defense subcommittee said Monday.

AP: Russia’s foreign minister has strongly warned against a military attack on Iran, saying that a pre-emptive strike would violate international law.

Reuters:  South African crude oil imports from Iran leapt in February to $364 million from zero the preceding month, customs data showed on Monday, dashing the view that Pretoria has bowed to U.S. pressure to curb commercial links with Tehran.

AFP: The United States Sunday welcomed Turkey’s decision to reduce its purchases of oil from neighbouring Iran by 20 percent.

AP: Iranians flocked to parks and orchards to mark Sizdeh Bedar, an ancient festival that predates Islam and goes back thousands of years to the time when Zoroastrianism was the predominant religion of Persia.