Following the halt of oil supplies to Spain and Greece, Iran extended its ban on oil exports to Germany and Italy, and plans to ban imports from European Union countries according to the country's official Press TV .
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, accompanied by senior ministers, arrived in Tehran on 28 March for talks on Iran’s nuclear programme, and the crisis in Syria .
The number of executions around the world increased last year, according to a report by Amensty International. A surge of executions last year in Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Yemen pushed the worldwide total higher than the year before.