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.
Iran warns foreign banks over US pressure
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.”
Obama: Would meet Iranian as president
AP: Democrat Barack Obama says he probably wouldn’t have invited Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak at Columbia University but would be willing as president to meet with the Iranian leader as a way to protect U.S. interests.
Rice sees no U.S.-Iran talks on Iraq soon
Reuters: The United States does not plan fresh U.S.-Iranian talks on how to stabilize Iraq any time soon but will leave open the possibility for such discussions, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Monday.
Iran allows family to search for missing former F.B.I. agent
New York Times: The Iranian government said Sunday that it would allow family members of a former F.B.I. agent they believe is missing in Iran to travel there to try to find him.
