Reuters: President Barack Obama will seek to build momentum with China in his push for sanctions on Iran as world leaders assemble in Washington on Monday for an unprecedented nuclear security summit.
Iran on Obama-Hu agenda as nuclear summit looms
Iranian anger rises over Obamas revised nuclear policy
New York Times: A large majority of Iranian lawmakers, angered over the Obama administration’s new nuclear weapons policy that conspicuously makes Iran and North Korea possible targets, urged their government on Sunday to formally complain to the United Nations.
China dislikes proposed Iran energy sanctions-envoys
Reuters: China has made clear to the United States and four other world powers that it dislikes a proposed ban on new investments in Iran's energy sector as part of a new round of U.N. sanctions, diplomats said.
Iran is not yet ‘nuclear capable’: US defense chief
AFP: US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Sunday that Iran is not on the threshold of producing a nuclear weapon and that its program was progressing slower than Tehran expected.
Ahmadinejad wants millions to quit Tehran over quake fears
AFP: At least five million Tehran residents need to relocate elsewhere because Iran's capital sits on several fault lines and is threatened by earthquakes, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday.
Senator: Sanctions against Iran still worth a try
AP: A Republican senator says a new round of United Nations sanctions probably won't stop Iran's pursuit of a suspect nuclear program.
Not inevitable Iran gets bomb: Gates
Reuters: Iran is not yet "nuclear capable" and the U.S. government has not concluded that it is inevitable that Tehran will get the bomb, Pentagon chief Robert Gates said in remarks aired on Sunday.
Israel PM warns of Iran threat on Holocaust Day
AFP: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused world governments on Sunday of failing to show sufficient concern about the threat posed by Iran as he marked the Jewish state's annual Holocaust Day.
Iran’s Khamenei slams Obama over ‘nuclear threat’
AFP: Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei slammed US President Barack Obama on Sunday for threatening a "nuclear attack" on Iran as Tehran said it will mass produce speedier centrifuges for its controversial uranium enrichment programme.
The vice president bears good news from Iraq
Washington Post: Vice President Biden didn't use the jinxed phrase "mission accomplished." But he offered an optimistic assessment of Iraq after last month's parliamentary election, saying that Iran's covert bid for influence there had been "clobbered".
