AFP: The European Union is considering banning certain Iranian officials from travelling to Europe in response to the recent political unrest, the Financial Times Deutschland reported on Friday.
EU mulling travel bans on Iran officials: report
British calls for diplomatic walkout from Iran are rejected by EU partners
The Times: British calls for a mass walkout of European Union ambassadors from Tehran were shot down by more cautious nations led by Germany and Italy yesterday as the carefully constructed European consensus on responding to Iran came under intense strain.
Iran eyes oil pipeline to Basra
UPI: Five Iranian companies have expressed interest in bidding on the construction of the Abadan-Basra pipeline to Iraq, Iranian officials say.
US puts sanctions on Iraq Shiite group, Iran adviser
AFP: The United States imposed financial sanctions Thursday on an adviser to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and a Iraq-based Shiite group Kata'ib Hezbollah, branded a foreign terrorist outfit.
Obama: Iran cannot be permitted to be nuke power
AP: President Barack Obama says he is "not reconciled" to the idea of Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon within a year.
Iran plans major investments at South Pars
UPI: Major investments in Iran's South Pars gas field will exploit billions of undeveloped reserves and provide a boost to the local economy, officials say.
Merkel likens Iran to repressive East Germany
AFP: German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday likened events in Iran to the oppression at the hands of the Stasi secret police in communist East Germany, where she grew up.
Europe weighs pulling envoys from Tehran
New York Times: Iran risked diplomatic isolation from the European Union, as European officials discussed whether to withdraw the ambassadors of all 27 member nations in a dispute over the detention of the British Embassy’s Iranian personnel.
Let the usurpers writhe
New York Times: Think of normalized relations with the United States as the big prize. Who gets to deliver it? One thing is certain: Iran’s ruthless usurpers are determined to ensure reformists are never in a position to claim the breakthrough.
Iran at ‘front and center’ of Obama trip
AFP: Responding to Iran's political crackdown and nuclear program will be "at front and center" of President Barack Obama's visit to Russia and the G8 summit in Italy next week, a US official said.
