Reuters: Britain, which closed its embassy in Tehran last month after it was ransacked by protesters, said on Thursday that Iranian authorities had blocked its website aimed at Iran.
UK government says Iran blocked its website
Turkey’s Tupras renews annual Iran crude oil deal
Reuters: Turkey’s biggest crude oil importer Tupras has renewed its annual deal to buy crude oil from Iran for 2012, at almost the same volumes as this year, industry sources familiar with the matter said.
Iran to become gasoline exporter by 2013-Ahmadinejad
Reuters: Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday his country would become a major gasoline exporter by 2013, despite the West’s toughest ever sanctions on the Islamic state.
Idle staff surf the net in London’s Iranian banks
Reuters: If it were not for the light blue Persian-lettered sign outside, you might mistake Bank Saderat for just another foreign bank operating in the City of London financial centre.
Iraq extends deadline for Iran camp closure
AFP: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Wednesday that Baghdad had agreed to extend a year-end deadline for the removal of Iranian dissidents housed in a camp northeast of the capital.
EU court upholds bar on terrorism listing for Iran group
Reuters: The EU’s highest court upheld a decision on Wednesday that keeps an Iranian opposition group off the EU’s terrorism black list, just days before a deadline to resettle thousands of activists stranded in Iraq by U.S. withdrawal.
Bill Clinton says US must mull all options on Iran
AFP: Former US president Bill Clinton said in a television interview to be shown Wednesday that President Barack Obama should not rule out military action on Iran, but there might be other ways “to skin the cat.”
Gunmen kidnap 5 Iranian engineers in Syria
AP: Iran’s official news agency says gunmen in Syria have kidnapped five Iranian engineers building a power plant in a central region of the country roiled by political unrest.
Western pressure, inflation send Iran’s rial to record low
Reuters: International sanctions imposed on Iran over its disputed nuclear programme, coupled with high inflation and fear of a military strike by Israel, has led Iran’s currency to fall to its lowest-ever level against the U.S. dollar.
Iran turns attention to plunging currency
AFP: Iranian officials, lawmakers and media on Wednesday snapped their focus on to their country’s sanctions-hit economy amid a sudden and accelerating plunge in the currency.
