AFP: Cash-strapped Belarus said on Monday it was negotiating a $400-million (300-million-euro) loan with Iran aimed at shoring up the economy during its worst crisis since post-Soviet independence.
Belarus in talks with Iran over $400 mln loan: central bank
Iran may buy, partially build Ukraine Antonov-158, Press TV says
Bloomberg: Iran may purchase Antonov-158 passenger planes from Ukraine after one aircraft completed a test flight in the Iranian capital yesterday, state-run Press TV reported, without citing anyone.
Ahmadinejad offers ‘simple’ solution for Palestinians
AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday proposed a “simple solution” to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict under which “everyone should go home.”
Iran postpones monkey’s ride into space
AFP: Iran’s plans to send a live monkey into space have been postponed indefinitely, the country’s top space official said, quoted on Monday by the state television website.
US hikers’ lawyer prevented from leaving Iran
AFP: Lawyer Masoud Shafii who represented the now free US hikers held for two years in Iran on espionage and illegal entry charges was barred from leaving the country on Sunday, a source close to the case told AFP.
Iran repeats opposition to two-state solution
AFP: Any plan to divide a Palestinian state would be unacceptable, Iran’s supreme leader said on Saturday, adding that such a state could exist temporarily as part of “liberated territory.”
US dismisses Iran’s nuclear offer as ’empty promises’
AFP: Iran’s offer offer to halt production of low enriched uranium is not credible because the Islamic republic has a record of making “empty promises,” the United States said Friday.
Iran resumes gas exports to Turkey – report
Reuters: Iran resumed natural gas exports to Turkey on Friday after an eight-day halt requested by Turkey over technical reasons, the Iranian semi-official Mehr news agency reported.
Iran pastor guilty of being a ‘Zionist, traitor’: official
AFP: Iranian pastor Yusef Nadarkhani should face the death penalty for being a traitorous “Zionist” and committing “security crimes,” not for apostasy, an official said Friday according to Fars news agency, amid a Western outcry over his sentence.
McCain: Libya inspires people in China, Russia, Iran, Syria
Reuters: U.S. Senator John McCain said on Thursday the fall of Muammar Gaddafi was inspiring people all over world, including citizens of Syria, Iran, China and Russia, but he twinned his praise with caution about Libya’s many revolutionary armed groups, saying they had to be brought under control.
