Reuters: Portuguese energy company Galp is in talks to explore for oil in Iran, Foreign Minister Luis Amado said on Wednesday.
Galp in talks with Iran on exploration deal-minister
Ahmadinejad to make landmark visit to Iraq-ministry
Reuters: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accepted an invitation to visit Baghdad, Iraq’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, a landmark trip that would make him the first leader of Iran to visit its former foe.
IAEA makes 1st visit to advanced Iran centrifuge site
Reuters: Iran has allowed top U.N. nuclear monitors to visit an advanced centrifuge development site for the first time in a gesture of transparency about its disputed atomic drive, diplomats familiar with the matter said.
Iran reformers barred from vote
AP: More than 2,000 reformers seeking democratic changes within Iran’s hard-line ruling establishment have been disqualified from running in the upcoming parliamentary elections, a top interior ministry official said Wednesday.
Most reformists appear purged from Iran ballot
New York Times: When voters go to the polls on March 14 to select members of Parliament, they may be able to choose only between conservative candidates and other conservative candidates, leaders of Irans main reform party said Wednesday.
Iran sees fuel imports at $3.2 bln in 2008-09
Reuters: Iran’s government is predicting it will need about $3.2 billion for gasoline and petroleum imports in the budget for the Iranian year that starts in March, according to an Iranian media report published on Thursday.
Iran gets 6th delivery of nuclear fuel from Russia
Reuters: Iran received a sixth batch of nuclear fuel from Russia on Thursday for the Islamic state’s first atomic power plant, leaving just two more to complete the total consignment, the official IRNA news agency said.
China urges “creative efforts” to end Iran standoff
Reuters: China urged all sides in Iran’s nuclear standoff with the West to be creative and find a new way towards a diplomatic solution.
Attacks imperil militiamen in Iraq allied with U.S.
New York Times: American-backed Sunni militias who have fought Sunni extremists to a standstill in some of Iraqs bloodiest battlegrounds are being hit with a wave of assassinations and bomb attacks, threatening a fragile linchpin of the militarys strategy to pacify the nation.
US still seeks diplomatic resolution of Iran row: Rice
AFP: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday that the nuclear stand-off with Iran could still be resolved diplomatically, a day after world powers agreed to haul Tehran back before the UN Security Council.
