Bloomberg: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Venezuela to meet with President Hugo Chavez after talks stalled in Moscow over his country’s nuclear program.
Ahmadinejad meets with Chavez as nuclear talks in Moscow falter
Chavez criticises sanctions on Iran
UKPA: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez criticised international sanctions on Iran as he met with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
France quizzes Iraq official on Iran dissident ‘torture’
AFP: French police on Thursday held an Iraqi official for questioning after a member of the exiled Iranian opposition filed a complaint against him alleging torture and war crimes, a judicial source said.
Contractor caught in Iran embargo sting gets 92 months
Bloomber: A New York man was sentenced to 92 months in prison for agreeing to illegally ship industrial material to Iran in violation of a U.S. trade embargo.
Iran’s Central Bank is failing to stabilize rial, Shargh reports
Bloomberg: Iran’s central bank needs a long- term policy to stabilize the domestic foreign-currency market, Shargh reported, citing Omid Karimian, a member of the parliament’s economic committee.
Iran cleric attacks world powers’ ‘dishonesty’
AP: Iran’s influential former president has criticized world powers for their “dishonesty” in recent nuclear talks in Moscow.
Clinton: China moving on cutting Iran oil imports
Reuters: China is moving to cut its imports of Iranian oil, tracking earlier efforts by countries such as India, Japan and South Korea which won them exemptions from tough new U.S. sanctions, Secretary Clinton said on Wednesday.
Iran producing enriched uranium at faster pace: experts
AFP: Iran’s uranium enrichment effort has picked up speed and Tehran could produce enough fissile material needed for a nuclear weapon within four months, experts told US lawmakers on Wednesday.
Iran nuclear talks: staggering to a halt
Guardian: Talks have provided no end of metaphors for negotiations that have got nowhere, but which neither side wants to declare dead.
Iran oil exports fall more in June, sanctions bite
Reuters: Iranian oil exports are falling further in June as more customers in Europe and Asia stop or scale back purchases ahead of European Union sanctions aimed at slowing Tehran’s nuclear program.
