Daily Star: Parliamentary majority leader MP Saad Hariri headed for Saudi Arabia on Tuesday after holding a meeting in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin and urging his host to help resolve the troubled country’s political deadlock over the selection of its next head of state.
Hariri urges Putin to help block Iranian, Syrian meddling in Lebanese election
Canadian-sponsored human rights resolution against Iran passes
CBC News: Iran failed by one vote on Tuesday to stop a Canadian-sponsored UN resolution condemning Iran’s “ongoing systematic violations of human rights.”
Bush pulls financial, diplomatic levers to check Iran
Wall Street Journal: The nation’s leader, nearing an election that polls say his party could lose, decides he must act while he still can to eliminate a national-security threat.
Iran argues nuclear case in letter to “world”
Reuters: Iran sent a letter to the world’s top diplomats on Tuesday to argue its case in the deepening nuclear row with the West, official media reported.
Iran arrests women’s activist: report
AFP: Iran has arrested a journalist and women’s rights activist for writing articles on “discriminatory laws” for women in the Islamic republic, a press report said on Tuesday.
China, Iran to renew fuel oil supply deal -trade
Reuters: Chinese state oil trader Zhuhai Zhenrong Corp is set to renew a one-year deal to buy from Iran about one million tonnes of fuel oil for 2008, shortly after the company agreed to extend a major crude agreement, traders said.
Merkel will urge German exporters to curb Iran ties, Bild says
Bloomberg: German Chancellor Angela Merkel will urge exporters to further restrict trade with Iran to pressure the Islamic Republic to end its nuclear program, according to Bild Zeitung.
US military chief refuses to rule out military option over Iran
AFP: The top US military chief Admiral Michael Mullen Tuesday refused to rule out the military option over the Iran nuclear crisis, but stressed the importance of diplomacy in resolving the standoff.
Iran not making “slightest compromise” with West, Ahmadinejad says
DPA: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that Iran would not make the ‘slightest compromise’ with the West over its nuclear programmes.
Iran-EU preliminary nuclear talks to be held “within next few days”
DPA: Preliminary nuclear talks between Iran and the European Union are to be held ‘within the next few days’ after the initial schedule had to be postponed, Iran’s deputy chief nuclear negotiator Javad Vaeidi said Wednesday.
