Reuters: Iran is in talks to sell crude oil to Egypt, Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi was quoted as saying by the Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA) on Monday.
Iran in talks to sell oil to Egypt: agency
UN atomic watchdog chief ‘frustrated’ by Iran
AFP: The head of the UN atomic agency hit out Monday at Iran’s refusal to grant access to sites and scientists involved in suspected nuclear weapons research, as Western powers looked to turn up the heat on Tehran.
U.S. ‘not setting deadlines’ for Iran, Clinton says
Bloomberg: The U.S. is “not setting deadlines” for Iran and still considers negotiations as “by far the best approach” to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said.
Cobras co-star in Salman Rushdie’s ‘Midnight’s Children’
Bloomberg: A month into shooting the film adaption of Salman Rushdie’s “Midnight’s Children” in Sri Lanka last year, production came to a sudden halt. Iran, a sworn enemy of Rushdie, demanded that the government stop the shoot.
Nuclear-armed Iran ‘not an option’: Westerwelle
AFP: German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said on Sunday that a nuclear-armed Iran was “not an option” as he called on Tehran to hold “substantial negotiations” over its controversial atomic programme.
Iran’s currency falls to record low against dollar
AP: Iran’s currency hit a record low against the U.S. dollar in street trading, the semiofficial Mehr news agency reported Sunday.
UN envoy talks with Iran about Syria, plans visit
AFP: The new UN-Arab League envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, has spoken by telephone with Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi and is contemplating a trip to Tehran, an Iranian official told the Mehr news agency on Sunday.
Iran escape film coincides with Canada embassy closing
AFP: Ben Affleck unveiled his new film “Argo” chronicling the 1979 escape with Canada’s help of American diplomats from Iran as rising tensions forced Canada this week to close its embassy in Tehran.
Christian pastor – once sentenced to death in Iran – is released, group says
CNN: A Christian pastor sentenced to death in Iran for apostasy was reunited with his family Saturday after a trial court acquitted him, said a nonprofit group monitoring the case.
Bridging the U.S.-Israeli gap on Iran
Washington Post: That there are differences between Mr. Obama and Mr. Netanyahu over the urgency of considering military action against Iran has been evident for some time.
