Reuters: An explosion on a pipeline bringing natural gas from Iran to Turkey halted supplies late on Sunday, a Turkish energy official told Reuters.
Explosion on Iran-Turkey pipeline cuts supplies – source
UN atomic chief calls for pause in Iran sanctions
Bloomberg: United Nations atomic agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei called on the Security Council to take a “timeout” from sanctions and for Iran to pause its uranium enrichment to avert a crisis over the country’s nuclear program.
UN chief: Iran has to meet all demands
Reuters: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday Iran had to meet Security Council demands to suspend its enrichment programs and not only cooperate with U.N. nuclear inspectors.
Ready to invade?
New York Sun: America is about to invade Iran. Any day now divisions of American tanks will be rolling toward Tehran as President Bush and the neoconservatives plunge the world into yet another disastrous war.
Mars, Venus and Iran
Wall Street Journal – REVIEW & OUTLOOK: If Europeans sometimes seem of two (or more) minds about Iran’s nuclear aspirations, that’s because they are. A pair of surveys released last week reflect a deep divide between ordinary Europeans and their leaders as to seriousness of the threat and whether force might need to be used to counter it.
Iran steps up crackdown against ‘immoral’ activity
AFP: Iran is pressing on with one of its toughest moral crackdowns in years, warning tens of thousands of women over slack dress, targeting “immoral” cafes and seizing illegal satellite receivers, local media reported on Monday.
Iranian raises possibility of an intrusion into Iraq
New York Times: In a sharp escalation of a dispute over border fighting, an official Iranian delegation at a diplomatic conference here warned Sunday that if the Iraqi government could not stop militants from crossing into Iran and carrying out attacks, the Iranian authorities would respond militarily.
U.S. to target Iranian arms entering Iraq
Wall Street Journal: The Pentagon is preparing to build its first base for U.S. forces near the Iraqi-Iranian border, in a major new effort to curb the flow of advanced Iranian weaponry to Shiite militants across Iraq.
Iran sees progress in Russia talks on nuclear plant
Reuters: Iran’s talks with Russia on the start-up of the Islamic state’s first nuclear power plant are making progress, the Foreign Ministry said on Sunday, days after local media reports said a deal had already been reached.
Iran admits hurt by high domestic oil consumption
AFP: High domestic consumption is harming Iran’s oil industry on top of international financial pressures linked to its nuclear programme, a top oil official was quoted as saying on Sunday.
