This week’s diplomatic choreography — with the Americans and the Iranians in New Delhi — provided a window into the realpolitik of Iranian sanctions.

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Despite U.S. Nudge, India and Iran Keep Economic Relations

Spanish police arrest 22 people and break up a gang trying to smuggle Iranians into Britain through the Canary Islands.

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Spain breaks up trafficking ring

Both Iranians and foreigners were arrested in connection with what was described as a plot to assassinate one of the country’s “specialists,” Iran’s state media reported.

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Iran Arrests 15 in Alleged Assassination Plot

While eyes are on the Iranian people to storm up in an uprising similar to the Arab Spring, Iran is hibernating in a Persian winter. Yes, it’s true, the sleepy nation talks in its sleep (that is the ongoing protests of the highly educated young Iranians on Facebook, Twitter and blogs) but, there isn’t going to be a Persian Spring any time soon.

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Don’t Wake Iran Up; It’s the Persian Winter

Up to 300,000 Iranians may have had their Google e-mail monitored using security certificates stolen from DigiNotar.

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Iranians hit in email hack attack

The battle lines between protesters and governments hardened on Friday, as unrest continued in Libya, Yemen and Bahrain, and Algerians and Iranians planned rallies.

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Battle Lines Harden Across the Mideast as Rulers Dig In

At least nine Iranians are killed and 20 wounded in a bomb attack on a military parade in the north-western town of Mahabad, local media report.

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‘Nine killed’ in Iran parade bomb

Software that was intended to help Iranians escape government control of the web has been withdrawn over security fears.

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Anti-censorship program withdrawn