Reuters: Iran is close to resuming full diplomatic relations with Egypt, its foreign minister said on Monday, but did not say when the ties that have been cut for almost three decades would be re-established.
Iran says close to resuming ties with Egypt
Iranian leader to visit to Iraq
AP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will make a historic trip to Iraq sometime before March 19, state media reported Monday, the first such visit ever by an Iranian leader.
Iran gets last batch of Russian atomic fuel – agency
Reuters: Iran received the eighth and last consignment of nuclear fuel from Russia on Monday for the Islamic Republic’s first atomic power plant, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Iran’s uranium stance keeps a deal at bay
Wall Street Journal: Hashemi Samareh, chief adviser and lifelong confidant to Iran’s president, said his country could join a proposed international bank for enriched uranium that would provide countries with safe fuel for nuclear power stations — but only as a supplier.
Gasoline black market thrives in Iran
AP: Each day, the boulevard in this port city derisively dubbed “OPEC Street” is lined with dozens of vendors selling plastic jugs of black-market gasoline to desperate drivers who haggle over the price of a tankful.
Iran increases nuclear activity
Press Association: An Iranian official said that the Islamic republic has increased its production to more than 300 tons of a gas used for uranium enrichment, a semi-official news agency reported.
At least seven killed in Beirut riots
AFP: At least seven people were killed on Sunday when protests over power cuts exploded into violence in the mainly Shiite southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut.
Making up with the mullahs
New York Post – Editorial: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has made her most generous offer yet to the mad mullahs of Iran: Suspend your enrichment of uranium, halting a critical step in the development of nuclear weapons, and Washington is prepared to develop “a more normal relationship.”
Iran summons Norways ambassador
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 27 Irans Foreign Ministry summoned on Sunday Norways top envoy to Tehran over Oslos recent meddling stance regarding the violations of human rights in Iran, state media reported.
Iran summons Norways ambassador
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 27 Irans Foreign Ministry summoned on Sunday Norways top envoy to Tehran over Oslos recent meddling stance regarding the violations of human rights in Iran, state media reported.
