Japan’s private sector banks have restricted loans to Iran and rejected a request to pay for oil imports in currencies other than dollars, the Financial Times quoted banking and official sources as saying.

Friends of Free Iran inter-parliamentary group in a statement today warned against maintaining the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI) on the terror list by the Council of Ministers of Environment, describing it as a legal catastrophe and a political scandal.

THE conventional wisdom says that we have two choices in confronting and containing Iranian nuclear ambitions – United Na tions sanctions and diplomacy, or a military strike to knock out key nuclear sites.