AFP: Sanctions by the West on Iran succeeded in slashing Iran’s oil export revenue by $40 billion in 2012, the International Energy Agency said on Wednesday, as production last month hit a three-decade low point.
Sanctions cost Iran $40 bn in 2012, says IEA
Netanyahu ally: Diplomacy won’t work with Iran
AP: A powerful partner of Israel’s prime minister says sanctions and negotiations will not stop Iran from pursuing its disputed nuclear program.
IAEA delegation arrives in Iran for new talks
AFP: A delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) arrived early Wednesday in Tehran for new talks on Iran’s disputed nuclear programme, the news agency Isna reported.
Iran’s global business is Murder Inc.
Wall Street Journal: Bombings in capital cities, kidnappings, trade in drugs and guns—Iranian exports, all. Now Tehran wants nukes. Mysteriously marked ammunition kills countless Africans in civil wars. Conspirators plot to blow up a crowded cafe and an embassy in Washington, D.C.
Death toll in Iran exile camp attack rises to seven
AFP: The death toll from a weekend mortar and rocket attack on an Iranian exiles’ camp in Iraq rose Tuesday to seven, the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran, or the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK) said.
U.S. imposes sanctions on Venezuela’s Cavim Arms Company
Bloomberg: The U.S. imposed sanctions on a state-owned Venezuelan weapons company after it traded with Iran, North Korea or Syria, the State Department said in a statement posted on its website.
Iran denies officials to be quizzed over Argentina bomb
Reuters: Iran denied on Tuesday it had agreed to allow international investigators to question Tehran officials over the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires as part of a plan to form a truth commission.
Berlin fest unveils Iran director’s cry for freedom
AFP: The 63rd Berlinale premiered Tuesday the latest film by banned Iranian director Jafar Panahi, a haunting lament about crushing state oppression and a tribute to the resilience of the creative drive.
Small Russian banks help Iran’s oil exports: minister
Reuters: Small Russian banks are participating in schemes to finance Iranian oil exports, which are the target of U.S. and European sanctions against Tehran, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Tuesday.
U.S. funds may have bought Iranian oil
UPI: The Afghan National Army may have used U.S. funds to buy fuel from Iran in violation of Western economic sanctions, a military audit has found.
