Reuters: State-run Chinaoil has sold two gasoline cargoes for April delivery to Iran, industry sources said on Wednesday, stepping into a void left by fuel suppliers halting shipments under threat of U.S. sanctions.
Exclusive: China’s top oil firms sell gasoline to Iran-trade
Panahi arrested for making anti-regime film: minister
AFP: Iran's culture minister said on Wednesday that the award-winning filmmaker Jafar Panahi was arrested because he was making an anti-regime film, the ISNA news agency reported.
Iran’s Entekhab wins bid for S.Korea Daewoo Elec
Reuters: Iranian appliance maker Entekhab Industrial Group has been named as the buyer for South Korea's Daewoo Electronics in a deal reportedly worth more than $540 million, beating Swedish giant Electrolux.
Daimler to reduce Iran ties over nuclear policy
Reuters: Luxury carmaker Daimler became the latest German firm to reduce business ties with Iran in protest at its nuclear policy, a day after the U.S. called for swift sanctions to pressure Tehran.
McCain: Time to ‘pull the trigger’ with Iran
AP: Senator John McCain says the United States has been backing away from a brewing fight with Iran, while that country moves ever closer to having nuclear weapons.
Iran announces batch of higher enriched uranium
AP: Iran's nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi says his country has produced five kilograms of 20 percent enriched uranium, a move in open defiance of the U.N. demands to halt the controversial program.
US sees ‘urgency’ to new UN sanctions on Iran
AFP: The United States seeks a new wave of UN sanctions on Iran "with a sense of urgency", a top US diplomat said Wednesday, while warning that even punishing measures will not sway Iran "overnight."
Iranians wary of deeper ties with China
Washington Post: In what looks like a strong, budding friendship, China is increasingly buying Iranian oil and gas, participating in Iranian infrastructure projects. Yet, according to politicians, businessmen and analysts, few Iranians expect the growing ties to turn into a new, lasting political axis.
Talk is more likely than action from China over Iran sanctions
The Times: The White House has said that China will back tighter UN sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme. Really? Or is this just wishful thinking? Unfortunately, from Beijing on this subject, talk is more likely than action.
U.S. license lets group send anti-censorship software to Iran
Bloomberg: The U.S. government approved the export to Iran of software designed to help citizens avoid government censorship of their Internet use, according to the program’s developer, the Censorship Research Center.
