AFP: Iran is negotiating with Spanish and British-Dutch energy giants to switch their gas exploration blocs with others due for later development, the oil minister was quoted on Thursday as saying.
Iran ‘negotiating swap of Repsol, Shell gas projects’
Call to EU over Iranian opposition
Press Association: Europe's governments are being urged to follow the UK's lead and remove Iran's opposition movement from a list of proscribed terrorist organisations.
Iran strike an unattractive last resort: Bolton
Reuters: Military action against Iran would be a last resort but the United States and its allies have not done enough to promote the alternative, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said on Wednesday.
US: Iran must not ‘stall’ on nuclear issue
AFP: The United States warned Wednesday that it would not let Iran "stall" the world with nuclear negotiations while Tehran pursues what the West fears is an atomic weapons quest.
Iran must explain IAEA nuclear report: Rice
Reuters: Iran has much to explain about a new report by the U.N. nuclear watchdog that says its alleged research into nuclear warheads remains of great concern, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday.
Iran’s failed ‘litmus test’
Washington Post – Editorials: Will there be consequences for Tehran's stonewalling of U.N. nuclear inspectors? Last August, the International Atomic Energy Agency struck a deal with Iran on a "work plan" for clearing up outstanding questions about its nuclear program within three months — in other words, before December 2007.
Iran new speaker in nuclear watchdog threat
CNN: Ali Larijani, formerly Iran's top nuclear negotiator, was overwhelmingly elected as parliament speaker Wednesday — and immediately warned that Tehran may reconsider cooperating with the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency.
Larijani warns IAEA over Iran’s cooperation
AFP: Iran's new parliament speaker Ali Larijani on Wednesday warned the UN nuclear watchdog that the country could revise its cooperation with it, after the body expressed grave concern about Tehran's contested atomic drive.
U.S. commander: Iran war would be ‘disastrous’
ABC News: The top U.S. Navy official in the Persian Gulf warned in an interview with ABC News that war with Iran would be "pretty disastrous," with "echoes and aftershocks" reverberating throughout the region.
Iranian guilty of using US nuclear software
AP: An engineer from Iran was convicted Tuesday of illegally accessing a protected computer in the United States to use training software he obtained at a former job at a nuclear power plant in Arizona.
