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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 |
 AP: Royal Dutch Shell Plc said Wednesday it has stopped selling gasoline to Iran, the latest company to cease business with a country that is increasingly targeted by U.S.-encouraged sanctions. |
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 |
 AFP: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates flew into the Saudi capital on Wednesday for talks expected to focus on Iran's nuclear programme and Washington's push for tough sanctions against Tehran. |
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 |
 Reuters: The Conservatives, favourites to win an election due in weeks, said on Wednesday they would back a U.N. arms embargo on Iran and a ban on oil and gas investment if Tehran remains defiant over its nuclear plans. |
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 |
 AP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says it's the United States that is playing a "double game" in Afghanistan, fighting terrorists that it helped to create. |
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 |
 Reuters: Iran's parliament on Tuesday blocked President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's plan to phase out subsidies on food and energy by approving only half of the savings requested by the government, news agencies reported. |
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 |
 AFP: The US State Department on Tuesday reiterated its call for Iran to help locate Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent who went missing on an island in the Gulf three years ago. |
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
 Reuters: Vice President Joe Biden said on Tuesday the United States is concerned that Iran is becoming more of a military dictatorship and insisted that Tehran will not be permitted to acquire a nuclear weapon. |
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
 AP: A traditional Islamic concept about protecting the faith and its followers has become a judicial weapon for Iran's rulers: charging opponents as so-called enemies of God with the threat of possible death sentences. |
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
 Reuters: A third of the world's jailed journalists are imprisoned in Iran, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Tuesday after the number of reporters held in the Islamic Republic rose to at least 52 in February. |
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
 AFP: Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar warned Tuesday that Tehran has "great means of deterrence" to face any possible attack over its nuclear programme.
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
 AP: Iran's official news agency says its navy has successfully test fired a sea missile from a newly commissioned destroyer in its southern waters. |
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
 AFP: Iran's press watchdog has warned 17 publications, including a leading reformist daily, accusing them of having breached media regulations, Mehr news agency reported on Tuesday. |
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
 AP: Iran on Tuesday urged China to resist pressure by the United States and its allies for new sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear program. |
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
 New York Times: In the Iranian desert, at a sprawling industrial site ringed by barbed wire and antiaircraft guns, a shift in the enrichment of uranium is producing global jitters because it could shorten Iran’s path to the acquisition of nuclear weapons. |
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
 AFP: Gabon will "work closely" with the United States and others to pressure Iran to comply with UN demands over its nuclear program, Gabonese President Ali Bongo said Monday. |
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Monday, 08 March 2010 |
 Reuters: Oil trading firms Trafigura and Vitol are stopping gasoline sales to Iran, industry sources said on Monday, joining a growing list of suppliers that have halted sales under threat of U.S. sanctions. |
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Monday, 08 March 2010 |
 AP: The Treasury Department is allowing the export of Internet communications services such as instant messaging, e-mail and Web browsing to Iran, Sudan and Cuba to help people in those countries communicate. |
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Monday, 08 March 2010 |
 Reuters: Iran's parliament approved President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's 2010/11 budget on Monday, state radio reported, but some lawmakers attacked the plan, saying planned cuts in subsidies could spark runaway inflation. |
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Monday, 08 March 2010 |
 Reuters: Iran's gas exports will have increased by around 35 percent in the year to March 20 while imports will fall by 25 percent compared with the previous year, a senior energy official was quoted as saying on Monday. |
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Monday, 08 March 2010 |
 AFP: General David Petraeus, the head of US Central Command, warned Sunday that Iran is becoming a "thugocracy" in attempts to suppress popular anger over last year's contested presidential vote results. |
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 |
 AP: Iran said Sunday it has launched a new production line of highly accurate, short range cruise missiles, which would add a new element to the country's already imposing arsenal. |
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 |
 Reuters: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad travels to neighboring Afghanistan on Monday for talks with his counterpart Hamid Karzai, an Iranian news agency reported on Sunday. |
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 |
 Reuters: Iran will start offering bonds worth a total of 1 billion euro on March 9, the Oil Ministry's website SHANA reported on Sunday. |
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 |
 New York Times: The federal government has awarded more than $107 billion in contract payments, grants and other benefits over the past decade to foreign and multinational American companies while they were doing business in Iran, despite Washington’s efforts to discourage investment there, records show. |
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 |
 Reuters: China's Foreign Minister said on Sunday new sanctions on Iran will not solve the standoff over its nuclear program, while chiding the United States after two months of tensions between the big powers. |
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 |
 Reuters: Iran Khodro, the Middle East's biggest car maker, said on Sunday it was breaking its own production record in the 2009/2010 year but it expressed concern about plans to cut high tariffs on imported vehicles.
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 |
 AP: Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday called the official version of the Sept. 11 attacks a "big lie" used by the U.S. as an excuse for the war on terror, state media reported. |
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Saturday, 06 March 2010 |
 AFP: Iran's firebrand President Mahmud Ahmadinejad on Saturday dismissed the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States as a "big lie," state media reported. |
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New York Times: Royal Dutch Shell and Ingersoll-Rand this week became the latest major corporations to announce they would cease or cut back business operations in Iran. 
