The decision by European Union foreign ministers to stop taking deliveries of crude oil from Iran might well represent a momentous change and a blow to Tehran.

• Date: 23.01.2012  |  Published on EGF: 23.01.2012  |  Energy  |  from rferl.org

U.S. Ambassador to the OSCE Ian Kelly on behalf of his government is insisting on permitting independent doctors to examine the state of health of ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko, who is now in the Kachanovska prison, the press service of the Batkivschyna party said on Saturday.

• Date: 21.01.2012  |  Published on EGF: 21.01.2012  |  Energy  |  from kyivpost.com

Iran is being paid for oil sales to India through a Turkish bank, the managing director of the National Iranian Oil Company said Friday on Mehr news agency.

• Date: 21.01.2012  |  Published on EGF: 21.01.2012  |  Energy  |  from nowlebanon.com

China's premier, Wen Jiabao, was in the Persian Gulf this week talking about oil.
China has become increasingly concerned about all the threats of conflict with Iran in the Persian Gulf, which supplies China with a great deal of its oil.

• Date: 21.01.2012  |  Published on EGF: 21.01.2012  |  Energy  |  from npr.org

Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd called on China to consider halting its oil purchases from Iran in deference to efforts by the international community of pressuring Tehran to abandon its nuclear program.

• Date: 20.01.2012  |  Published on EGF: 19.01.2012  |  Energy  |  from au.ibtimes.com

Americans view China's competition in telecommunications and fiber optics as worrisome enough that policy-makers regularly consider enacting protectionist legislation. The possibility of China using its investment policies to seize the lead in automobile manufacturing also has Washington reacting vigorously.

• Date: 20.01.2012  |  Published on EGF: 19.01.2012  |  Energy  |  from omaha.com

Japan pledged on Friday to keep cutting purchases of Iranian crude in the clearest public offer of support yet among Asia's big buyers for U.S. efforts to tighten an international noose around Iran in an escalating dispute over its nuclear ambitions.

• Date: 20.01.2012  |  Published on EGF: 19.01.2012  |  External Relations  |  from english.alarabiya.net

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu Wednesday said both the European Union and Iran have expressed their readiness to resume talks on the nuclear issue.

• Date: 19.01.2012  |  Published on EGF: 19.01.2012  |  Energy  |  from oananews.org