Iran Live Coverage: Another Challenge to Ahmadinejad
Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 6:57See also Wednesday's Iran Live Coverage: Interpreting the Supreme Leader on the US and Israel
Ali Larijani & President Ahmadinejad1357 GMT: Oil Watch. Japan’s crude imports from Iran rose sharply in Feburary, reaching their highest level since March 2012.
Imports last month were about 321,000 barrels a day, up 67% from January.
Analysts said, however, that refiners have reduced their imports on a yearly basis --- thus, one month's increase is unlike to jeopardize Japan’s waiver from US sanctions.
Japan’s purchases from Iran last year declined 39%.
1353 GMT: Election Watch. Yet another warning of sedition in June's Presidential elections, possibly aimed at the Ahmadinejad camp --- Hossein Taghavi-Hosseini, the spokesman of Parliament's National Security Commission, has said the "deviant current" is pursuing "anti-security" activities.