AFP: An Iranian delegation left Baghdad for home on Thursday without holding talks with officials from archfoe the United States on the security situation in Iraq, an Iranian official said.
Iran team leaves without US talks on Iraq
Iraqi official: US-Iran talks postponed
AP: A meeting brokered by Baghdad between Iran and the United States over Iraq’s security was postponed Thursday, an Iraqi government official said, a day after Washington insisted no such talks were planned.
Iran says sanctions will not affect oil sector
Reuters: Iran’s oil minister said on Thursday the latest U.N. sanctions on Tehran over its disputed nuclear plans would not affect the oil sector in the world’s fourth-largest crude producer.
Iranian and Saudi foreign ministers meet in Cairo
Reuters: The foreign ministers of Iran and Saudi Arabia held talks at Cairo airport on Wednesday, Egyptian officials said, in a possible attempt to resolve a political crisis in Lebanon.
Once a terrorist, always a terrorist?
Daily Telegraph: Iran’s main opposition group has renounced violence and the courts say it poses no threat – yet the Government wants it to remain outlawed.
Mission for Iran
Washington Times: An unlikely duo of a Scottish conservative and a Portuguese socialist from the European Parliament today open a campaign in Washington to build support for the removal of the main Iranian resistance group from a terrorist blacklist.
World Bank says has no plans for new loans to Iran
Reuters: The World Bank fully complies with United Nations sanctions on Iran and has no plans to approve new loans to the country, the poverty-fighting institution said in a document on its Web site.
UN Iran resolution disregarded IAEA – S.Africa
Reuters: South Africa expressed reservations on Wednesday about a U.N. resolution that imposed new sanctions on Iran over its disputed nuclear plans after voting for it.
EU, US challenge Iran over nuclear allegations at IAEA
AFP: The European Union and the United States challenged Tehran on Wednesday to disprove allegations that Iran is seeking to build nuclear weapons.
Tehran gets the jitters after earthquake claim
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 06 Residents of Tehran are beginning to panic after SMS text messages started to appear in mobile phones claiming that there is a possibility of an impending powerful quake in the Iranian capital in the coming days.
