AFP: A technical glitch allowed some Iranians temporary access to banned social networking websites Facebook and Twitter, an Iranian Internet official said on Tuesday.
‘Technical glitch’ brings down Iran firewall
Iran’s Khamenei touts flexibility ahead of talks
AFP: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday that flexibility was sometimes necessary in diplomacy as his negotiators prepared for new talks on his government’s controversial nuclear drive.
Iran confirms exchange of letters with Obama
Reuters: Iran said on Tuesday that President Hassan Rouhani had exchanged letters with U.S. President Barack Obama, confirming a rare contact between leaders of the two nations at loggerheads over Iran’s nuclear program, the Syrian war and other issues.
Lawmaker from Humble seeks U.N. action for Iranian exiles
Houston Chronicle: Texas GOP Rep. Ted Poe prepared a letter to U.N. Secretary General on Monday asking the international organization to consider deploying blue helmeted U.N. peacekeepers to Iraq to prevent further attacks on Iranian exiles who had been promised protection by the United States.
Iran restores blocks on Facebook, Twitter
AP: Iranian authorities have restored blocks on Facebook and Twitter after a “technical glitch” briefly removed filters from the social networks overnight.
Iran: In letter to Obama, Rouhani offers his views
AP: Iran’s foreign ministry says the letter exchange between Washington and Tehran included White House’s congratulations on the election of Iran’s new moderate-leaning president.
Iranian offer of deal on nuclear program met by doubts
Bloomberg: Iran’s offer to negotiate a deal on its suspected nuclear weapons program with the International Atomic Energy Agency, the five permanent United Nations Security Council members and Germany, is being met with skepticism.
US: no current plans for Obama-Rowhani meeting
AFP: The White House said Monday there were no current plans for President Barack Obama to see Iran’s new president at the UN next week, but did not definitively rule out a meeting.
Judge: Iran-backed company behind NYC office tower
AP: An office tower is subject to forfeiture because revenue from it was secretly funneled to a state-owned Iranian bank in violation of a U.S. trade embargo, a judge ruled Monday. The Iranian government has been designated by the U.S. as a sponsor of international terrorism.
Iranians dial up presence in Syria
Wall Street Journal: At a base near Tehran, Iranian forces are training Shiite militiamen from across the Arab world to do battle in Syria—showing the widening role of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps in Syria’s bloody war.
