Reuters: Iran is ready to hold talks with six major powers over its nuclear programme “in late October or early November”, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Saturday.
Iran: ready for nuclear talks in late Oct/early Nov
Crude market oversupplied: Iran’s OPEC governor
Reuters: Iran’s OPEC governor said oil prices were “nominal” and the crude market was oversupplied, the Students News Agency ISNA reported on Saturday.
Iran acknowledges espionage at nuclear facilities
AP: Iran’s nuclear chief says personnel at the country’s nuclear facilities were lured by promises of better pay to pass secrets to the West, but that increased security and worker privileges has put a stop to the spying.
Iran blasts World Bank for refusing loans
Reuters: Iran on Friday accused the World Bank of “discriminatory behaviour” for refusing to authorise new development assistance to the country.
Iran claims country is ‘stronger’ after sanctions
AFP: Iran is stronger after a host of international sanctions, the country’s finance minister Shamseddin Hosseini asserted in Washington.
Iran kills two behind shooting at police car-report
Reuters: Iranian security forces have killed two people suspected on involvement in a shoot out with a police patrol that killed five in the capital of Iran’s Kurdistan province, a news agency reported on Friday.
Steel producers stage protest in Iran capital
Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 08 – From the Grapevine… Steel producers and distributors in Tehran on Thursday staged protests in several locations in the Grand Bazaar and surrounding areas, including in the Sabz-e Meidan bazaar. Hundreds of people came to their support.
Germany: Iran has to come clean on nuclear program
AP: Germany’s foreign minister has urged Iran to comply with its international duties and show full transparency regarding its nuclear program.
Behind propaganda, Iran fights fuel sanctions
Reuters: Iran’s assertion that it has side-stepped some international sanctions and become self-sufficient in gasoline is political propaganda, experts say, but it could become a reality as early as 2013.
Iranian finance minister in Washington for IMF
CNN: The Iranian economic affairs and finance minister is in Washington for meetings of the International Monetary Fund, the Iranian interest section said in a press release.
