Fox News: Human rights observers warn that Iran plans to execute a woman whose sentence to stoning has drawn international condemnation.
Iran plans to execute woman in stoning case
EU concerned at ‘imminent’ Iran execution
AFP: Chief European Union diplomat Catherine Ashton was “deeply concerned” at reports that the execution of a woman convicted of adultery in Iran was “imminent,” her spokeswoman said Tuesday.
French supporters fear Iranian woman to be stoned Wednesday
AFP: French human rights activists campaigning for the freedom of a Iranian mother who was convicted of adultery say they fear she could be stoned to death as early as Wednesday.
Q+A-How do the new sanctions on Iran affect oil?
Reuters: Decades of sanctions have stunted Iran’s oil and gas sector, which dominates its economy.
Nigeria: Iran won’t discuss arms seizure
AP: Iran’s embassy in Nigeria says it won’t elaborate on military-grade weaponry seized in Nigeria’s busiest port and linked to Iran.
Iran opposition leader slams ‘govt’s subsidy plan’
AFP: Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi has charged that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s government lacks the means to implement its plan to scrap subsidies on energy products.
Iran’s Petropars hopes to finalise India deal
Reuters: Iran hopes to sign a deal with Indian firms on the development of its South Pars Phase 12 field by the end of March 2011, said Gholamreza Manouchehri, managing director of the Petropars Company.
Guard led 3 Americans across Iran border, released hiker says
New York Times: The three American hikers accused of espionage by Iran stepped off an unmarked dirt road — inadvertently crossing from Iraq into the Islamic republic — only because a border guard of unknown nationality gestured for them to approach, the lone hiker to be released said Sunday.
Iran seeks to open nuclear talks to other nations, ministry says
Bloomberg: Iran would favor opening the next nuclear talks with world powers to all nations, Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said.
Iran postpones trial date for U.S. “hikers”
Reuters: Iranian authorities have delayed the trial of two Americans arrested near the Iraqi border in July 2009, a judiciary spokesman said on Monday, less than a week before they were due their first day in court.
