Tuesday, February 21, 2012

DTN News: Iran Top Stories / Headlines News Dated February 21, 2012


DTN News: Iran Top Stories / Headlines News Dated February 21, 2012
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - February 21, 2012: Comprehensive daily news related to Iran for the world of TODAY.
*Comprehensive daily news related to Iran Top Stories / Headlines News for the world of TODAY

IRAN'S BID FOR NEW CRUDE BUYERS FALLS SHORT IN SE ASIA

Reuters - 
Buyers deterred by sanctions, payment issues * Some refineries cannot process Iran's sour crude * Petronas buys 600000 barrels of Iranian crude per quarter By Francis Kan and Florence Tan SINGAPORE, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Iran may not find new buyers for ...
Reuters - 
... MARCH 19 Iran - Nationalization of Petro Industry WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 Iran - Noruz South Africa - Human Rights Day Syria - Mothers' Day THURSDAY, MARCH 22 Iran - Noruz FRIDAY, MARCH 23 Iran - Noruz Mauritius - Ougadi SATURDAY, MARCH 24 Iran - Noruz ...

ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU TO VISIT CANADA

Toronto Star - 
Bruce Campion-Smith Ottawa Bureau Chief OTTAWA—Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit with Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Canada on March 2, as tensions in the Middle East continue to rise over Iran's nuclear ambitions.

IRAN NUCLEAR TENSIONS PUT CAUCASUS ON ALERT

BBC News - 
By Damien McGuinness BBC News, Tbilisi Tensions betweenIran and the West have spread to the Caucasus, where a bomb was found attached to an Israeli diplomatic car last week.

IRAN: PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKE AGAINST ENEMIES POSSIBLE

CBS News - 
A senior Iranian military commander signaled the Islamic Republic might launch a pre-emptive strike against its "enemies" if the nation's leaders felt an attack on Iran was imminent, providing another example of ever-escalating tensions between Tehran ...


Reuters Africa - 
... MARCH 19 Iran - Nationalization of Petro Industry WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 Iran - Noruz South Africa - Human Rights Day Syria - Mothers' Day THURSDAY, MARCH 22 Iran - Noruz FRIDAY, MARCH 23 Iran - Noruz Mauritius - Ougadi SATURDAY, MARCH 24 Iran - Noruz ...

IRAN SAID TO OFFER INDIA EXTRA OIL SUPPLIES AMID EUROPE CUT

San Francisco Chronicle - 
21 (Bloomberg) -- Iran offered India extra crude supplies on revised terms as international sanctions tighten the Middle East producer's circle of oil customers, according to three people with knowledge of the talks.

NUCLEAR ALARMISM OVER IRAN IS BACKING US INTO A CORNER

The Guardian (blog) - 
A nuclear Iran would spark off "the most serious round of nuclear proliferation since nuclear weapons were invented".

BRENT CRUDE PRICE HOLDS NEAR $120, BUYERS TAKE LESSIRAN OIL

Calgary Herald - 
LONDON - Oil held close to $120 a barrel on Tuesday as Iran's top customers in Asia moved to cut back on supplies due to tighter sanctions by the West.

SEAN STONE CONVERTS TO ISLAM IN IRAN

Fox News - 
O'REILLY: "Personal Story" segment tonight, 27-year-old Sean Stone, son of controversial director Oliver Stone, converted to Islam in Iran on Valentine's Day. The younger Stone is also a filmmaker and was traveling through Iran to produce a movie about ...

BACK TO THEIR OLD WAYS? IRAN, HIZBOLLAH, AND INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM

Canada Free Press - 
Since the rise of the ayatollah regime in Iran in 1979 and its role in the establishment of Hizbollah in Lebanon in 1982, the two - in the context of their patron-protégé relationship - have used terrorism as a tool in their struggles with enemies at ...

AFGHAN REFUGEES CAUGHT BETWEEN IRAN AND A HARD PLACE

RAWA News - 
“He was deported from Iran; we don't know what's wrong. Sometimes he speaks,” says one UN worker tasked with giving him board until aid workers can find his family to send him home.

IRAN SAYS UN NUKE INSPECTORS WILL NOT VISIT SITES

Seattle Post Intelligencer - 
A senior UN nuclear official said Sunday he hoped for progress in upcoming talks with Iran about suspected secret work on atomic arms, but his careful choice of words suggested little expectation that the meeting will be successful.

FORMER IRAN DETAINEES: PUBLICITY HELPED THEIR CASE

Fox News - 
I would tell them that in my case going public helped," said Esfandiari, director of Middle East Programs at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC Tensions have been high for years between the US and Iran, and several ...

WARSHIPS SAIL TO SYRIA

Asia Times Online - 
Iran's Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said the mission displays Iran's "might" despite 30 years of relentless sanctions.

IRAN VERSUS EVERYONE

National Post - 
Commentary about the Islamic Republic of Iran can be a thing to behold: Whenever the mullahs resort openly to terrorism, it's taken by some in the West as a good sign that they're finally serious about negotiations.

GASOLINE FUTURES RISE AS OIL CLIMBS TO NINE-MONTH HIGH ON GREECE

Bloomberg - 
Prices also gained as Iran's suspended oil deliveries to France and the United Kingdom, increasing concern that oil supplies may tighten.

PANETTA PUSHES BACK AGAINST MEDIA ... IRAN WARNS US ON SYRIA ... TWO SIDES MAP ...

Politico - 
Panetta is trying to put an end to media speculation over his recent statements on Iran as he heads to the Oval Office today for a meeting with the president.

IRAN'S AIR DEFENSE UNITS EXERCISE CONFRONTING LOW-ALTITUDE AERIAL THREATS

Fars News Agency - 
The drills were staged by the air defense units of the Iranian Army and the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) on the second day of the 'Sarallah' wargames underway in Iran'sSouthern regions. In the current phase of the drills, hypothetical enemy ...

IRAN SAYS WOULD ACT AGAINST ENEMIES IF ENDANGERED

Reuters - 
By Parisa Hafezi | TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran would take pre-emptive action against its enemies if it felt its national interests were endangered, the deputy head of the Islamic Republic's armed forces was quoted by a semi-official news agency as saying ...


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