Eye On Iran: After Killing at a Bazaar, Iran Declares 2 Days Off

For continuing coverage follow us on Twitter and join our Facebook group. Top Stories NYT: "The Iranian government declared a sudden, two-day national holiday on Sunday and Monday, after a long-simmering dispute between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Tehran bazaar erupted last week, leaving one prominent merchant dead, according to opposition Web sites." http://nyti.ms/abBMru AFP: "Russian companies are ready to supply fuel to energy-hungry Iran, despite unilateral US and EU sanctions targeting Tehran's oil and gas sectors, the Russian energy minister said on Wednesday." http://bit.ly/9ms6ZZ Bloomberg: "Iran, facing international sanctions over its nuclear energy plans, is likely to reduce gasoline imports by 75 percent by 2015 as it expands refining capacity and tackles subsidies, the International Energy Agency said. Iran's gasoline imports will shrink to 100,000 barrels a day in five years from 400,000 in 2009, the IEA said today in its latest monthly report." http://bit.ly/9NnoW0 UANI in the News Mark Wallace in NY Post: "It is time for the SEC to require all companies that avail themselves of the U.S. capital markets to fully disclose any and all business they conduct in or with Iran. Shining a light on such dealings is the first step to ensuring that money and resources -- and in some cases U.S. taxpayer dollars -- don't go to advance Iran's nuclear program." http://bit.ly/bez11q Nuclear Program NYT: "An Iranian nuclear scientist who American officials say defected to the United States last year provided information about Iran's nuclear weapons program and then developed second thoughts, walked into the Iranian Interests Section of the Pakistani Embassy here on Monday night and declared that he wanted a ticket back to Tehran." http://nyti.ms/d555Yg AP: "The smuggling of tens of thousands of gallons a day of crude oil and refined fuels from northern Iraq to Iran, in violation of new U.S. sanctions, is stoking tensions between Iraq's central government and its Kurdish provincial counterparts. The reports about the oil smuggling surfaced just over a week after the U.S. imposed new sanctions barring the export of refined fuels to Iran." http://bit.ly/9Nk5vf BBC News: "A BBC investigation has uncovered questions over whether Iranian ships have been registered in the Isle of Man to evade international sanctions. Later this month Foreign Secretary William Hague and his EU counterparts are expected to release more details about the latest round of European sanctions aimed at halting Iran's military machine and possible development of weapons of mass destruction." http://bit.ly/d4yaZx AFP: "Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki rejected Tuesday as 'totally false' Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's statement that Iran is close to having the potential to build a nuclear weapon. 'The recent comments made by Medvedev regarding the Iranian nuclear theme are totally false and we deny them,' he told a news conference in Madrid." http://bit.ly/cbEUjV FT: "For close to 30 years business conditions have been good for Morteza Masoumzadeh. The Dubai-based Iranian national has run a successful shipping operation, trading steel and plastics across the narrow strip of the Gulf. But those waters have become choppier. As global efforts to halt Iran's nuclear enrichment program through economic sanctions are stepped up, business is feeling the pinch." http://bit.ly/cpk3rD CNN: "The Responsibility to Prevent Coalition -- an independent group that describes itself as 'an international consortium of 100 leading scholars, jurists, parliamentarians, government leaders, and Iranian human rights activists' -- held a press conference in Jerusalem to release its 200-page report on the Iranian regime. The primary author of the report, former Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Cotler, outlined the four categories that he said represented the Iranian threat." http://bit.ly/bUBsB8 Opinion The Economist: "Why has an Iranian nuclear scientist turned up in the Iranian interests section of Pakistan's embassy in Washington? Two starkly different accounts exist of the strange case of Shahram Amiri. In one, touted by Iran, the Iranian scientist was nabbed by the CIA and Saudi intelligence officers while making the hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, injected with a tranquiliser and hauled to the United States. In the other, Mr Amiri came to America voluntarily to study." http://bit.ly/bXD8dZ James Woolsey and Rebecca Heinrichs in WSJ: "A December 2009 missile launch proved Iran has already obtained the ability to reach Israel. Given President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's and other Iranian leaders' millenarian fanaticism, it would be most imprudent to rely on nuclear deterrence alone to protect us. If Tehran were to achieve a nuclear missile capability, it could hold American cities hostage-unless, that is, the U.S. builds a robust and comprehensive ballistic missile defense." http://bit.ly/bxuqxI Eye on Iran is a periodic news summary from United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) a program of the American Coalition Against Nuclear Iran, Inc., a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Eye on Iran is not intended as a comprehensive media clips summary but rather a selection of media elements with discreet analysis in a PDA friendly format. For more information please email Press@UnitedAgainstNuclearIran.com United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) is a non-partisan, broad-based coalition that is united in a commitment to prevent Iran from fulfilling its ambition to become a regional super-power possessing nuclear weapons. 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