Reuters: Oil climbed above $71 to a nine-month high on Thursday after a report by the United Nations’ nuclear agency opened the way to tougher sanctions against the world’s fourth biggest crude exporter.
Oil surges above $71 to 9-month high on Iran
World powers weigh options against Iran
AP: Experts from the United States and five other powers leading efforts to rein in Iran’s nuclear program plan to meet within the week following a U.N. report that Tehran has expanded its uranium enrichment program.
Iran still defying UN over uranium enrichment: IAEA
AFP: Iran persists in defying UN demands to stop enriching uranium and is expanding the work, the UN nuclear watchdog said in a report Wednesday that could open the door to new sanctions against Tehran.
Iran detains fourth Iranian American
Reuters: Iran has imprisoned an Iranian American affiliated with George Soros’ Open Society Institute, the foundation said on Wednesday, marking the fourth dual citizen to be detained in Iran in recent months.
Navy launches show of force near Iran
AP: Ships packed with 17,000 sailors and Marines moved into the Persian Gulf on Wednesday as the U.S. Navy staged another show of force off Iran’s coast just days before U.S.-Iran talks in Baghdad.
Major powers to insist Iran stop atomic work: U.S.
Reuters: The major world powers will insist Iran halts all nuclear enrichment and rejects a compromise put forward by the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said on Wednesday.
Iran expands atomic work, defying U.N.: IAEA report
Reuters: Iran has not only ignored a U.N. Security Council deadline to stop uranium enrichment activity but expanded it, according to a confidential International Atomic Energy Agency report obtained by Reuters on Wednesday.
In Brief: Iran to send Zarif for talks with U.S.
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 23 Iran will send its ambassador to the United Nations to represent it in an upcoming meeting with U.S. officials on the security of Iraq, state television reported on Tuesday.
In Brief: Iran to send Zarif for talks with U.S.
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 23 Iran will send its ambassador to the United Nations to represent it in an upcoming meeting with U.S. officials on the security of Iraq, state television reported on Tuesday.
In Brief: Iran Parliament chief visits ill al-Hakim
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 23 Irans Majlis (Parliament) Speaker has paid a visit to the head of an Iraqi Shiite group who is currently in Iran for cancer treatment.
