Reuters: A growing number of oil companies, trading houses and other international firms have stopped doing business with Iran this year as the U.S. has led international efforts to isolate Tehran.
FACTBOX-Foreign companies stepping away from Iran
Iran scientist heading home via third country: ISNA
Reuters: An Iranian nuclear scientist who disappeared more than a year ago and mysteriously turned up in Washington is on his way back to Iran via a third country, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman said on Wednesday.
General warns of attacks on U.S. troops leaving Iraq
Los Angeles Times: A militant group reportedly backed by Iran is suspected of planning attacks, which could be billed as a blow to America’s prestige in the Middle East.
ANALYSIS-Sanctions tighten pressure on Iran’s oil industry
Reuters: A new round of U.S. and European sanctions targets Iran’s dilapidated oil sector from top to bottom, making it even more difficult to maintain output capacity and domestic supplies of fuel.
Iraq cabinet to summon Kurds over Iran fuel sales
Reuters: Iraq’s oil minister on Tuesday criticised the authorities of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region for allowing fuel to be exported to neighbouring Iran without approval from the central government.
Iran may cut gasoline imports by 75%, IEA says
Bloomberg: Iran, facing international sanctions over its nuclear energy plans, is likely to reduce gasoline imports by 75 percent by 2015 as it expands refining capacity and tackles subsidies, the International Energy Agency said.
Clinton says Iran scientist free to come and go
Reuters: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday that Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri had been free to come and go from the United States.
Iran says Russian nuclear weapon claim ‘totally false’
AFP: Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki rejected Tuesday as “totally false” Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s statement that Iran is close to having the potential to build a nuclear weapon.
Iran-backed group eyed attack on US bases in Iraq: general
AFP: Iranian-backed militants recently received specialist training inside Iran to help mount an attack on American military bases in Iraq, the top US commander in Baghdad said on Tuesday.
Iran delays local elections
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jul. 13 – Iran’s hard-line constitutional watchdog has approved a bill in the Majlis, or Parliament, for local council elections to be held more than two years later than originally planned, state television reported.
