Bloomberg: Insurance for tankers to export Iranian crude may be unusable even after the U.S. and the European Union eased sanctions against the Persian Gulf state, a group covering vessel owners said.
Iran oil-shipping insurance seen unusable on lack of clarity
UN inspectors in Iran to visit uranium mine
AP: An Iranian official says a group of U.N. inspectors are on the way to visit a key uranium mine as part of a deal to allow expanded monitoring of the country’s nuclear sites.
Iranian lawmakers to visit Britain as diplomatic ties improve
Reuters: Iranian parliamentarians will come to London in the next few months, the first such visit in years, as Iran and Britain try to improve their damaged relations, a group of British lawmakers said on Tuesday.
Obama takes tough line against Iran sanctions to Congress
Reuters: President Barack Obama took his hard line against new sanctions over Iran’s nuclear program directly to U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday by pledging in his annual State of the Union address to veto any legislation that threatens talks with Tehran.
Turkey PM visits Iran for talks on trade and Syria
AFP: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Tehran on Tuesday evening on an official visit expected to be dominated by trade ties and the Syrian civil war.
An Iranian ‘moderate’ exposed
New Republic: Everyone thought Iran’s foreign minister was a pragmatist. They were wrong. Zarif’s memoir “A Conversation with Mohammad-Javad Zarif, Iran’s Former Ambassador to the United Nations”, has just been published in Tehran.
How to solve Obama’s Iran dilemma
Politico: President Obama puts the chance of translating this interim agreement into a comprehensive deal to ensure that Iran cannot build a nuclear weapon at less than 50 percent. The Iranian deputy foreign minister believes that may be high.
UK Parliamentary committee meets Iranian opposition leader in Paris
PRNewswire: A high-level cross-party delegation of British parliamentarians from both Houses of Commons met today with the leader of the Iranian opposition to pursue a humanitarian issue that threatens the lives of thousands.
Assad future blocks progress in Syria peace talks
AP: The key issue of a transitional government to replace President Bashar Assad blocked any progress Monday in Syrian peace talks, described by one delegate as “a dialogue of the deaf.”
Iran sanctions push stalls, U.S. lawmakers mull weaker measure
Reuters: An attempt to impose new sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program has stalled in the U.S. Congress and lawmakers are discussing whether to introduce a much weaker measure, congressional aides said on Monday.
