Press Association: Moscow opposes new UN sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme, Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations has said.
Russia opposed to Iran sanctions
Squeezing harder
The Economist: France’s president, Nicolas Sarkozy, is pushing for tougher tactics towards Iran.
Giuliani in Britain vows to thwart Iran
AP: Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani met with Britain’s prime minister Wednesday and vowed the U.S. would take any action necessary to keep Iran from becoming a nuclear power.
US says diplomacy the ‘way forward’ in Iran nuclear stand-off
AFP: A senior US official called on the international community Wednesday to cooperate with Washington in persuading Iran to agree to fresh talks on its nuclear programme.
Florida divests from Iran, Sudan
AP: Florida’s public employee retirement fund will divest nearly $1.3 billion invested with 21 companies doing business in Iran or Sudan, an action state officials hope will be imitated across the nation.
General says Iran can strike back at Israel
New York Times: A senior military official warned on Wednesday that Iran had prepared a plan to attack Israel if Israel bombed Iran, the semiofficial Fars news agency reported.
India’s long-established ties with Iran straining alliance with U.S.
Washington Post: India’s long-standing ties with Iran appear to be threatening the beleaguered nuclear energy deal between Washington and New Delhi and, more broadly, their growing strategic alliance.
Iran nuclear talks must not last years: Kouchner
Reuters: French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has said he supports talks between Iran and the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog about Tehran’s atomic program, but the dialogue should not drag on for years.
Iran frees American citizen held since May
Washington Post: Iran released New York-based social scientist Kian Tajbakhsh from Evin Prison in Tehran late last night, according to George Soros’s Open Society Institute, for which Tajbakhsh has served as a consultant.
Iran leader denied bid to visit Ground Zero
New York Times: A remark by Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly that the Police Department was considering a request by Iran that its president visit ground zero set off complaints yesterday before the department corrected itself.
