Wall Street Journal: China's dependence on Iranian oil could deter it from backing tougher sanctions on Iran, though Beijing supports containing nuclear proliferation as part of a broader push to raise its international diplomatic stance.
China’s oil needs affect its Iran ties
Iran consortium buys 50 pct stake in telecoms firm
Reuters: A consortium affiliated to the elite Revolutionary Guards has bought 50 percent plus one share in Iran's state telecommunications company for the equivalent of around $7.8 billion, Iranian media reported on Sunday.
Iran test-fires missiles amid nuclear tension
Reuters: Iran test-fired missiles on Sunday to show it was prepared to head off any military threat, four days before the Islamic Republic is due to hold rare talks with world powers worried about its nuclear ambitions.
Unlocking Irans nuclear secrets
Sunday Times: It sounds like a scene from a James Bond movie. Western intelligence agents scouring Iran for a secret nuclear site, big enough to make a bomb but small enough to hide, identified some suspicious tunnels in a mountain complex outside the holy city of Qom.
Iran pressured over new plant
Washington Post: At talks scheduled for Thursday in Geneva with Iran, the United States and five other major powers will demand immediate and unfettered access to the newly exposed nuclear facility in Iran, including access to people and documents involved in its construction, and they will insist that Tehran abide by international rules to reveal such projects before construction begins, Obama administration officials said Saturday.
Iran court halts oilfield with 15,000 bpd output: report
Reuters: A court halted production at an oil and gas field in Iran's southwest due to environmental reasons, leading to a drop in the country's crude output by 15,000 barrels per day, Mehr News Agency reported on Saturday.
Obama: could look at “sanctions that bite” on Iran
Reuters: President Barack Obama said on Friday the United States preferred diplomacy in dealing with Iran over its nuclear program, but would consider imposing "sanctions that bite" if the diplomatic track did not work.
Officials: Obama shared info on Iran nuke site with Russia, China
CNN: President Obama recently shared sensitive intelligence with Russia and China about Iran's newly unveiled nuclear facility to get the two countries' leaders on board with new sanctions against Tehran, senior U.S. officials revealed Friday.
Obama says Iran officially “on notice”
Reuters: President Barack Obama warned Iran on Friday that it was "on notice" and said it would have to "come clean" about its disputed nuclear program at a meeting of world powers on October 1.
Miliband accused over Iran exiles
BBC: A Labour peer has accused Foreign Secretary David Miliband of maintaining "a shameful silence" on attacks on Iranian dissidents at a camp in Iraq.


