Reuters: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday that Iran had to convince the world it was not working on a nuclear weapon or she would support stiffer sanctions against Tehran.
Germany says burden of nuclear proof on Iran
Iran president vows to ignore U.N. measures
New York Times: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, said Tuesday that he considered the dispute over his countrys nuclear program closed and that Iran would disregard the resolutions of the Security Council, which he said was dominated by arrogant powers.
Congress denounces Iran’s Ahmadinejad
AP: Congress signaled its disapproval of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with a vote Tuesday to tighten sanctions against his government and a call to designate his army a terrorist group.
French, Iranian FMs to meet on sidelines of UN meeting
AFP: French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki will meet later on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, diplomats from both countries said Tuesday.
Letting Iran go nuclear could cause war: Sarkozy
Reuters: Allowing Iran to acquire nuclear weapons could destabilize the world and lead to war, French President Nicolas Sarkozy told the United Nations on Tuesday.
Iraq-Iran border chaos over detainee dispute
AFP: Iran’s sudden closure of its border with northern Iraq caused trucking chaos at the frontier on Tuesday, as experts warned of severe economic fallout and traders scrambled for goods.
Live from New York, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s unreality show
Washington Post: “For hundreds of years, we’ve lived in friendship and brotherhood with the people of Iraq,” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the National Press Club yesterday.
Renault resolved to meet Iran demand for Logan car
Reuters: French carmaker Renault is doing its best to meet demand for a locally produced version of the Logan no-frills car in Iran despite a liquidity crisis in the country, as 89,000 clients have already paid to take delivery, strategy chief Patrick Pelata said late on Monday.
Iran gets over 70 pct oil income in non-US currencies
Reuters: Iran, locked in a row with Washington over its nuclear work, is aiming to boost oil export earnings in non-U.S. dollar currencies to 80 percent by the end of next month, an Iranian oil official said on Tuesday.
Iran says American detainee has been released
New York Times: Iran has released on bail a fourth Iranian-American national who had been jailed since May on security-related charges, the ISNA news agency reported today.
