Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 03 – Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki arrived on Saturday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, state media reported.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 02 – An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale jolted parts of the island of Hendurabi in the Persian Gulf early on Saturday.

New York Times: In one of the coldest winters Iranians have experienced in recent memory, the government is failing to provide natural gas to tens of thousands of people across the country, leaving some for days or even weeks with no heat at all. Here in the capital, rolling blackouts every night for a month have left people without electricity, and heat, for hours at a time.

Reuters: Iran’s daily gasoline imports have fallen about 57 percent since the country introduced fuel rationing last June, a senior oil official was quoted on Saturday as saying.

Reuters: Iran wants OPEC to discuss cutting crude oil output at the cartel’s next meeting in March as stocks are expected to increase, Iranian Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari said on Saturday.

AFP: A gas field with an estimated 11 trillion cubic feet in reserves has been discovered in the Gulf off the coast of Iran, Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said on Saturday.

Reuters: Iran has invited the leaders of Chad and Sudan for talks as Chadian rebels battled the army in their most determined offensive in two years, Iran’s foreign minister said on Saturday at an African summit in Ethiopia.