• Iran’s Khamenei rejects offer for US talks as ploy.
• Iran reluctant to negotiate from position of weakness.
• Analysis prepared for President Obama and staff depicts Supreme Leader as walled off from country’s economic strains.
• European court throws out sanctions against Iran’s Bank Saderat
• Don’t expect big new peace push when Obama visits Israel next month.
• Senate panel vote on Hagel delayed.

(Photo: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during the 16th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Tehran, August 30, 2012. REUTERS/Hamid Forootan/ISNA.)