The U.N. Security Council imposed new sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, expanding on sanctions approved in December. The key points of the new measures:
– A ban on Iranian arms exports and on any country buying Iranian weapons.
– A call on all nations “to exercise vigilance and restraint” in supplying tanks, combat aircraft and other heavy weapons to Iran.
– An asset freeze on 15 individuals and 13 organizations and companies.
– A call on all governments and financial institutions not to make any new commitments “of grants, financial assistance, or concessional loans” to the Iranian government.
– A call on all countries to exercise “vigilance and restraint” on the entry or transit through their territory of the individuals who provide support or are involved with Iran’s nuclear activities.
– A requirement that all countries report the transit or entry of any of people whose assets have been frozen to the Security Council committee monitoring sanctions against Iran.
Reuters: An Iraqi fisherman who said he saw Iranian forces detain British sailors and marines on Friday in a waterway between Iraq and Iran said on Saturday the ship British forces were searching was anchored in Iraqi waters. 
Iran Focus: London, Mar. 24 The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on Saturday imposing further sanctions on Iran over its failure to suspend uranium enrichment activities as the Council and the UN nuclear watchdog had demanded. 
Bloomberg: The European Union called for the release of 15 British sailors and Marines seized by Iran yesterday in Iraqi waters, according to German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. 
AP: Major powers expect unanimous approval Saturday of new U.N. Security Council sanctions to pressure Iran into suspending uranium enrichment. 
Reuters: India will not be pressured into cancelling its plans to buy natural gas from Iran through a pipeline, Oil Minister Murli Deora said on Saturday. 
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 24 Fifteen British Marines and Navy personnel who were seized on Friday by Iranian Revolutionary Guards on Irans southern shores have been transferred to Tehran, state radio reported on Saturday. 
The Scotsman: The French company chairman under investigation for alleged corruption involving deals with Iran has been banned from contacting the former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and his son Mehdi, it was revealed yesterday. 