Christian Science Monitor: World powers and Iran met in Istanbul yesterday to follow up on last month’s talks in Kazakhstan. Despite high hopes, the two sides didn’t find enough common ground.
Nuclear talks: Iran unmoved by world powers’ latest proposal
Iran releases ex-president’s daughter
AP: A lawyer for the daughter of influential Iranian ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani says she has been freed from jail after serving a six-month sentence on charges of making propaganda against the ruling system.
Iran protests Saudi diplomat’s deadly ‘drink driving’
AFP: Iran said Tuesday it has protested to the Saudi embassy about a deadly accident involving one of its diplomats who reports alleged had been “drink driving” when he crashed his vehicle into another.
Khamenei mobilizes loyalists to swing Iran’s election
Reuters: Iran’s supreme leader may have helped Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to win two presidential elections, but he is now bent on stopping his turbulent protege from levering his own man into the job.
Iraq turns blind eye to Iran arms flights to Syria: US
AFP: Baghdad is “looking the other way” as Iran sends military equipment through Iraqi airspace to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime amid the ongoing conflict in Syria, a US official said.
Obama offers Iranians ‘new relationship’
UPI: Iran and the United States can have “a new relationship,” President Obama said, but only if Tehran fully discloses details about its nuclear program.
Obama lands in Israel to bridge gap from two-state plan to Iran
Bloomberg: When President Barack Obama delivers his main address in Israel this week, it won’t be to the nation’s parliament. Instead, his audience will largely consist of students.
Six powers flesh out nuclear proposals in Iran talks
Reuters: Six major powers gave Iran more details of their proposals to end a standoff over Tehran’s nuclear program in talks in Istanbul on Monday, the European Union (EU) said.
Obama: Iranians pay high price for nuke defiance
AP: President Barack Obama is telling Iranian citizens they pay a high price for their leaders’ refusal to address the world’s concerns about Iran’s nuclear program.
Budget, Iran top priorities for new Israeli government
Reuters: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government will face the immediate task of passing an austerity budget and the time-sensitive challenge of preventing what it believes is Iran’s drive to develop nuclear weapons.
