Reuters: Iran, locked in a row with Washington over its nuclear work, is aiming to boost oil export earnings in non-U.S. dollar currencies to 80 percent by the end of next month, an Iranian oil official said on Tuesday.
Iran gets over 70 pct oil income in non-US currencies
Iran says American detainee has been released
New York Times: Iran has released on bail a fourth Iranian-American national who had been jailed since May on security-related charges, the ISNA news agency reported today.
Iran’s President to Visit Bolivia, Venezuela
VOA News: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is expected in South America later this week following his visit to the United Nations.
Iran warns foreign banks over US pressure
AFP: Iran’s new central bank chief Tuesday warned foreign banks which have cut business with Tehran amid the ongoing dispute over its nuclear programme that they would lose out if they returned to the country.
Merkel ready to back further sanctions against Iran
Bloomberg: Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany was prepared to press for further sanctions against Iran unless the Islamic Republic abandoned its nuclear program.
State to cut ties with firms doing business in Iran
Los Angeles Times: As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad paid his controversial visit to New York on Monday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger moved to steal some of the spotlight by announcing that California would sever ties with companies doing business in Iran.
Bush to focus on Myanmar not Iran in U.N. speech
Reuters: President George W. Bush is set to announce new U.S. sanctions against Myanmar over human rights as the annual U.N. General Assembly gathering of world leaders gets under way on Tuesday.
Rice says U.S. weighs more Iran sanctions
Reuters: U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Monday the United States was considering a range of sanctions against Iran, including on Tehran’s elite Quds force of the Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Kirchner to press Iran at UN for aid on Argentine bombing probe
Bloomberg: Argentine President Nestor Kirchner will press Iran to cooperate in a probe of a 1994 terrorist attack in Buenos Aires when he speaks to the United Nations tomorrow, his cabinet chief said.
Ahmadinejad questions 9/11, Holocaust
AP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad questioned the official version of the Sept. 11 attacks and defended the right to cast doubt on the Holocaust in a tense appearance Monday at Columbia University, whose president accused the hard-line leader of behaving like “a petty and cruel dictator.”
