AFP: A US military attack on Iran would do more damage than a strike carried out by Israeli forces, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday in an interview.
US military could hit Iran harder than Israel: Panetta
World powers stress diplomacy in Iran standoff
AP: Three days of protracted negotiations held under the specter of war highlighted the diplomatic difficulties ahead for nations intent on ensuring that Iran is not developing nuclear weapons.
Iran may be cleaning up nuke work
AP: Satellite images of an Iranian military facility appear to show trucks and earth-moving vehicles at the site, indicating an attempted cleanup of radioactive traces possibly left by tests of a nuclear-weapon trigger, diplomats told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Mitsubishi waiting for Japan’s guidance on Iranian oil contract
Bloomberg: Mitsubishi Corp. (8058), Japan’s biggest trading company, is among crude oil buyers waiting for the government to decide whether the Asian country needs to cut imports from Iran.
‘Iran is not telling us everything,’ U.N. atomic agency chief says
CNN: Iran is not open about its nuclear program, but it should be, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Wednesday.
US demands ‘actions’ from Iran in nuclear talks
AFP: The United States Wednesday rebuffed an Iranian warning that new nuclear talks would fail if they were used to exert pressure, demanding assurances Tehran was not building an atomic bomb.
Iran: U.N. report blasts human rights offenses
New York Times: A United Nations investigator of Iran’s human rights record castigated its government for what he called evidence of “a striking pattern of violations of fundamental human rights guaranteed under international law.”
Iran considers cyberspace council
UPI: Iran’s supreme leader announced Wednesday he called on Iran’s president to set up a council to examine domestic and international Internet usage.
Iran sanctions may already be cutting crude flow as ships cancel voyages
Bloomberg: U.S. and European sanctions designed to pressure Iran over its nuclear program may be cutting the Persian Gulf nation’s oil exports as vessels cancel trips to the country.
US says Iranian general key in Afghan heroin trade
AFP: Washington on Wednesday named a general in Iran’s elite al-Quds force as a key figure in trafficking heroin from Afghanistan.
