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Monday, 21 July 2008 |
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 Wall Street Journal: The U.S. is fine-tuning new financial penalties against Iran that would target everything from gasoline imports to the insurance sector, and the prospect of such sanctions grew after talks over its nuclear-fuel program this weekend made no progress.
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Monday, 21 July 2008 |
 Reuters: U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Iran on Monday that it faced more sanctions if it defied a two-week deadline to agree to curb its nuclear programme. |
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Monday, 21 July 2008 |
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 The Guardian: Gordon Brown will today recall the Holocaust as he delivers a blunt warning to Iran to end its "totally abhorrent" threat to destroy Israel, calling on Tehran to abandon plans to develop nuclear weapons.
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Monday, 21 July 2008 |
 AFP: Iran has two weeks to respond seriously to an international offer to halt its sensitive nuclear work or face further "punitive measures," US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned. |
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Monday, 21 July 2008 |
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 Daily Telegraph: Eight women and one man convicted of adultery are set to be stoned to death in Iran, according to activists and lawyers.
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Monday, 21 July 2008 |
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 The Independent: Iran has handed ammunition to American and Israeli hawks by delaying its response to a Western offer of technological and political incentives intended to curb Iranian nuclear ambitions. At the highest-level meeting involving US and Iranian officials in almost 30 years held in Geneva on Saturday, Iran dashed expectations of a compromise that would avert the imposition of further sanctions and possible military confrontation.
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Sunday, 20 July 2008 |
 Reuters: In the first speech to the Israeli Knesset by a British prime minister, Gordon Brown on Monday will warn Iran it faces growing isolation if it rejects an offer from major powers on its disputed nuclear programme. |
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Sunday, 20 July 2008 |
 Reuters: White House military adviser Adm. Mike Mullen said on Sunday he was concerned that any U.S. or Israeli strike on Iran carried a notable risk of more turmoil in the Middle East. |
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Sunday, 20 July 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran's president described talks with world powers on its disputed nuclear programme as a step forward on Sunday, official media said, even though the meeting in Geneva failed to produce any breakthrough in the standoff. |
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Sunday, 20 July 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran has discovered an oil field with in-place reserves of 525 million barrels, Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari was quoted as saying on Sunday. |
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Sunday, 20 July 2008 |
 Washington Post: With his moves last week involving Iraq, Iran and North Korea, President Bush accelerated a shift toward centrist foreign policies, a change that has cheered Democrats, angered some Republicans and roiled the presidential campaign. |
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Sunday, 20 July 2008 |
 Reuters: Two Iranian Revolutionary Guards were killed in fighting with rebels in a northwestern region, official media said on Sunday, a part of Iran where security forces and Kurdish guerrillas have often clashed in the past. |
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Sunday, 20 July 2008 |
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 BBC News: At least eight women and one man are reported to have been sentenced to death by stoning in Iran.
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Sunday, 20 July 2008 |
 Sunday Times: Iranian and American officials appeared deadlocked yesterday as their most highly publicised meeting for nearly 40 years failed to produce a breakthrough on Iran’s nuclear enrichment programme. |
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Sunday, 20 July 2008 |
 AP: Iraq's largest Sunni Arab political bloc returned to the government fold Saturday after calling off a nearly one-year boycott of the Shiite-dominated leadership — another critical stride toward healing sectarian rifts. |
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Sunday, 20 July 2008 |
 Reuters: U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday the United States would not soften its refusal to negotiate directly with Iran until Tehran gave up its nuclear program. |
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Sunday, 20 July 2008 |
 New York Times: International talks on Iran’s nuclear ambitions ended in deadlock on Saturday, despite the Bush administration’s decision to reverse policy and send a senior American official to the table for the first time. |
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Saturday, 19 July 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran's top nuclear negotiator ruled out on Saturday discussion of freezing uranium enrichment at any subsequent round of talks with major powers. |
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Saturday, 19 July 2008 |
 AFP: Attempts to persuade Iran to give up its disputed nuclear programme made "insufficient" progress, the European Union's diplomatic chief said Saturday after high-level talks in Geneva. |
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Saturday, 19 July 2008 |
 Reuters: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday the United States would not soften its refusal to negotiate directly with Iran until Tehran gave up its nuclear program. |
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Saturday, 19 July 2008 |
 AFP: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Friday confirmed that the United States had shifted its position on diplomacy with Iran, with the decision to send a senior envoy to Geneva to participate in nuclear talks with Iran's top negotiator. |
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Saturday, 19 July 2008 |
 Reuters: The International Monetary Fund said prospects for Iran's economy were good, but urged the government to act promptly to rein in inflation that is expected at about 25 percent. |
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Friday, 18 July 2008 |
 Jerusalem Post - By Daniel Pipes: As the United Nations mandate that legitimizes the presence of US forces in Iraq expires on December 31, a humanitarian and strategic disaster is coming into view. The fate of about 3,500 anti-regime Iranians will be decided in the course of status-of-forces negotiations between Washington and Baghdad. |
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Friday, 18 July 2008 |
 Reuters: The European Union criticised Iran on Friday for a spate of executions and plans to extend the scope of the death penalty, a day before it leads international talks on Tehran's disputed nuclear programme. |
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Friday, 18 July 2008 |
 AFP: The Egyptian Football Association said on Friday that a friendly match with Iran had been cancelled due to tensions over an Iranian film on the assassination of former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat. |
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Friday, 18 July 2008 |
 AP: Iran's Foreign Minister said Friday that forthcoming nuclear talks in Geneva and the participation of a U.S. diplomat for the first time look positive and he expects progress. |
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Friday, 18 July 2008 |
 Wall Street Journal: As Iran prepares to hold nuclear talks this weekend with Europe and the U.S., economic sanctions are crimping Tehran's oil industry -- but they haven't broken it. |
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Friday, 18 July 2008 |
 Reuters: The U.S. Senate Banking Committee overwhelmingly approved a bill on Thursday that would expand trade and economic sanctions in another attempt to prod Iran to step back from suspected nuclear weapons production and alleged support for terrorist activities. |
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AP: Efforts to persuade Iran to stop enriching uranium will top the agenda of a European Union foreign ministers' meeting Tuesday after Tehran stonewalled world powers on the issue over the weekend. 
