Eye On Iran: Iran and Russia Exchange Acerbic Barbs on Sanctions

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Top Stories NYT: "Russia and Iran publicly traded barbs on Wednesday, showing strains in their longstanding alliance because of Moscow's support for a new set of American-backed sanctions over the Iranian nuclear program." http://nyti.ms/ckUIdd AP: "Russia's foreign minister on Thursday brushed off Iran's recent criticism as an emotional outburst and expressed frustration with Tehran in the standoff over its nuclear program." http://bit.ly/aLDalj WSJ: "China's Ministry of Commerce described as 'not true' a report in The Wall Street Journal on April 3 that equipment used in enriching uranium that reached Iran had been handled by a representative of a Chinese company." http://bit.ly/cJISEd Nuclear Program Bloomberg: "Stricter United Nations sanctions against Iran, backed by the U.S. to curtail the country's nuclear program, won't succeed in isolating its Shiite Muslim rulers, a leading opposition figure said." http://bit.ly/9G63wT Forbes: "American companies worried about tighter sanctions on Iran can breathe easy--at least for a few weeks. The top U.S. lawmakers putting the finishing touches on a sanctions bill in Congress indicated Tuesday that it could be the end of June before they send the final bill to President Obama's desk because they'll let the United Nations' action on sanctions play out." http://bit.ly/a7RTIe Reuters: "The United States has said Russia and China, Iran's allies, had agreed to a draft resolution that would expand U.N. sanctions on Iran for refusing to halt nuclear enrichment. Tehran has said its nuclear work is peaceful. 'It will create difficulties but it is not going to kill them,' Shokri Ghanem, the chairman of Libya's National Oil Corporation, said. 'We had sanctions for 20 years. What did it do to us? Not very much.'" http://bit.ly/a1q8Kg Commerce Daily Times: "Iran is expected to receive its first shipment of gasoline from Turkey in at least 18 months in June, industry sources said on Tuesday. The deal followed an agreement concluded last week between Turkey and Brazil with Tehran over a nuclear fuel swap designed to quell international fears over the Islamic Republic's atomic ambitions and avert fresh sanctions. The gasoline shipment arriving from Turkey is set to discharge in Iran by mid-June, two industry sources said." http://bit.ly/dhozZr Domestic Politics Radio Farda: "Iran has been able to increase its authority in recent months sufficiently to 'break the world record for intelligence- and security-related work,' says a deputy interior minister for political affairs, Seyed Solat Mortazavi." http://bit.ly/c9SJzP Radio Farda: "Iranian news websites, including khabaronline, are reporting that Iran's Intelligence Ministry is due to release a documentary in the next few days 'to complete the removal of ambiguities surrounding the murder of Neda Agha Soltan' and provide 'new evidence' about the West's version of events." http://bit.ly/93ERT6 Opinion WSJ Editorial Board: "When the Obama Administration last week secured the Kremlin's support for U.N. sanctions on Iran, the White House touted a big dividend from its 'reset' in relations with Russia. Now the price for Moscow's cooperation is becoming clearer, and the only ones who should be cheering are the Russians and Iranians." http://bit.ly/d3fxyW Scott Peterson in CS Monitor: "But behind the usual high-pitched pokes from Tehran, analysts say several Iranian actions signal a serious desire to resolve the nuclear standoff - and perhaps even to find a limited rapprochement with arch-enemy America." http://bit.ly/d8ioDl Roger Cohen in NYT: "A year ago, in the weeks before the tumultuous June 12 election, Iran was a nation of festive hope and vibrant debate. Charges and counter-charges filled the airwaves as large crowds, for and against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, filled the streets. A late Green wave surged behind Mir Hussein Moussavi, the opposition candidate." http://nyti.ms/a10Dl4 Hossein Aryan in Radio Farda: "Acting on orders from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to counter the 'soft war' launched by Iran's enemies after last year's disputed presidential election, the Basij militia have beefed up their ideological indoctrination of schoolchildren." http://bit.ly/bcCl1b 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. 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