Reuters: The Belarusian national oil company Belarusneft is pulling out of developing Iran’s Jofeir oilfield over differences with the state National Iranian Oil Co.(NIOC), the semi-official Mehr news agency reported on Tuesday.
Belarus company withdraws from Iran oil field -agency
Iran says Russian plan could revive nuclear talks
Reuters: Iran welcomed on Tuesday a Russian attempt to revive talks with six world powers that are concerned about the its uranium enrichment programme, a potential pathway to nuclear weapons, but was vague about what the agenda should be.
Deutsche Börse unit sued over alleged Iran funds
Wall Street Journal: A group of nearly 1,000 American victims of international terrorism is suing Clearstream Banking SA of Luxembourg, a unit of Germany’s Deutsche Börse AG, for allegedly assisting Iran in fraudulently securing the release of $250 million in frozen assets and in moving it out of the U.S. financial system, according to legal documents recently unsealed by a federal court in New York.
US jails Iranian over missile component plot
AFP: A US judge sentenced an Iranian national Monday to more than four years in prison for plotting to export radio equipment and components for anti-tank missiles from the United States to Iran.
Iran to ‘soon’ issue verdict on US hikers: prosecutor
AFP: Iran’s prosecutor general said on Monday that the verdict in the case of three Americans arrested two years ago on espionage charges would be issued “soon,” Mehr news agency reported.
Iran says India paid two thirds of oil debt
Reuters: Iran has received two thirds of the oil debts from Indian buyers that had accumulated this year due to a sanctions-related payments problem, Central Bank Governor Mahmoud Bahmani told the students’ news agency ISNA on Monday.
American credibility at risk on foreign policy front, too
Fox News: The Obama administration’s economic policy has suffered some recent highly publicized disasters. But the setbacks of “Obamanomics” should not obscure the administration’s equally critical foreign policy missteps toward Iran and Iraq that threaten to downgrade American credibility in yet another arena.
An unholy alliance
Iran Focus – Editorial: The brutal state-imposed bloodbath in Syria deserves uncompromising reproach. Popular protests calling for President Bashar al-Assad’s regime to relinquish power have continued despite state cruelty.
Ahmadinejad says Iran nuclear plant to start on time, RT reports
Bloomberg: Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant will start on time and is not being delayed because of disagreements with Russia, RT television reported, citing an interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Iran’s “nuclear partner” Russia seeks to revive global talks
Reuters: Russia will look to revive nuclear talks between Iran and the world’s biggest economic and military powers this week, hoping its special relationship with Tehran can help jolt back to life negotiations that some analysts consider “dead in the water”.
