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Monday, 29 September 2008 |
 AFP: Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao said in an interview aired Sunday that the international approach to Iran's disputed nuclear program should focus on negotiations and avoid piling pressure on Tehran. |
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Sunday, 28 September 2008 |
 AFP: The rise in food prices accelerated in Iran in September, when the cost of a basket of 45 staple items showed a mighty leap of nearly 50 percent, a newspaper reported on Sunday, citing central bank figures. |
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Sunday, 28 September 2008 |
 AP: U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker is criticizing Iran for trying to block a new security agreement between the United States and Iraq. |
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Sunday, 28 September 2008 |
 New York Times: The United Nations Security Council unanimously passed a resolution on Saturday pressing Iran to comply with international efforts to monitor its nuclear development program, reaffirming both earlier sanctions and the offer to end the confrontation through negotiations. |
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Sunday, 28 September 2008 |
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 The Observer: A British businessman has been arrested after being named in a plot to supply Iran with weapons of mass destruction, while two more at the centre of an international manhunt are accused of smuggling military parts to Tehran.
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Sunday, 28 September 2008 |
 AFP: The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation Gholamreza Aghazadeh will not take part in the UN nuclear watchdog's annual assembly opening on Monday, the ISNA news agency reported on Sunday. |
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Sunday, 28 September 2008 |
 Reuters: Israel has received an advanced U.S.-made radar, staffed by American personnel, as part of preparations to fend off any future ballistic missile attack by Iran, officials involved in the deployment said on Sunday. |
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Sunday, 28 September 2008 |
 AFP: Gunmen shot and wounded an Iranian public prosecutor in the restive province of Sistan-Baluchestan, the Fars news agency reported on Sunday. |
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Sunday, 28 September 2008 |
 AP: The U.N. Security Council on Saturday unanimously approved a resolution that reaffirms previous sanctions on Iran for refusing to halt uranium enrichment for its nuclear program. |
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Saturday, 27 September 2008 |
 Reuters: The U.N. Security Council was set to agree a resolution on Saturday that again orders Iran to halt nuclear enrichment work but imposes none of the new sanctions Washington and its allies want. |
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Saturday, 27 September 2008 |
 CNN: After Friday night's presidential debate, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger defended Sen. John McCain's attack against Sen. Barack Obama for Obama's willingness to meet with the Iranian president "without precondition." |
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Saturday, 27 September 2008 |
 AFP: Kuwait's interior minister urged Iran in remarks published on Saturday not to provide a safe haven for "terrorists" but said there was no proof of claims that Tehran has sleeper cells in his country. |
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Saturday, 27 September 2008 |
 AFP: Iran's former central bank chief has warned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against policies which further stoke inflation that topped 27 percent this year, a newspaper reported on Saturday. |
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Saturday, 27 September 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: London, Sep. 27 - Coalition forces captured five suspected proxy agents of Iran Saturday morning in the New Baghdad district of Baghdad, the United States military announced.
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Saturday, 27 September 2008 |
 New York Times: For months, Senators John McCain and Barack Obama have argued over whether Iraq was the right war to fight in 2003. On Friday night they delved for the first time into the problems one of them will face on Jan. 20: Whether America has to be ready to carry out military action inside Pakistan, an important ally, and against Iran’s nuclear program. |
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Saturday, 27 September 2008 |
 Washington Post: The United States, Russia, China and key European powers agreed Friday to press for a U.N. Security Council resolution that renews previous demands for Iran to halt its enrichment of uranium but includes no new punitive measures to compel Tehran to do so. |
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Saturday, 27 September 2008 |
 Washington Times: A new Security Council resolution calls on Iran to "comply fully, without delay" with U.N. watchdog demands but, in deference to Russia, does not call for new sanctions against Tehran's nuclear enrichment program — a maneuver designed to signal council unity rather than compel any new action by Tehran. |
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Saturday, 27 September 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 27 - Iran's Commerce Minister has urged China to increase the volume of its trade with the Islamic Republic, Iranian state media reported.
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Saturday, 27 September 2008 |
 AP: Asserting the need to force Iran's hand on its nuclear weapons program and its support of international terrorism, the House on Friday moved to reinforce sanctions against the Tehran government. |
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Saturday, 27 September 2008 |
 Daily Telegraph: Iran is successfully blocking US efforts to secure a long-term troop presence in Iraq, the American ambassador to Baghdad has conceded. |
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Saturday, 27 September 2008 |
 UPI: Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, says she wouldn't negotiate with some world leaders without preconditions. |
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Saturday, 27 September 2008 |
 AFP: Six major powers papered over differences on Iran Friday and agreed to submit a new Security Council draft resolution confirming existing UN sanctions over Tehran's nuclear program. |
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Friday, 26 September 2008 |
 Reuters: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday a new U.N. resolution on Iran would not include fresh sanctions but aimed to show unity after disagreements with Russia over its incursion into Georgia. |
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Friday, 26 September 2008 |
 AP: The head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog warned in comments published Friday that Iran is one of several countries on the "path" to possessing the ingredients for making a nuclear weapon. |
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Friday, 26 September 2008 |
 Bloomberg: The U.S., Russia, China and their European partners will offer a draft United Nations resolution repeating their strategy of offering Iran economic incentives to halt nuclear work, backed by sanctions, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said. |
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Friday, 26 September 2008 |
 AP: The European Union said Friday it is "very worried" about what it sees as a deterioration of religious freedom in Iran. |
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Friday, 26 September 2008 |
 Reuters: An influential Iranian cleric said on Friday the financial crisis gripping the United States was the price Washington paid for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
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Friday, 26 September 2008 |
 Washington Times: The House Democratic leadership has effectively shelved a resolution calling for what critics say would amount to a naval blockade of Iran because of concerns that it could provoke another war, officials on Capitol Hill said. |
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New York Times: The United States Army has deployed an advanced American radar system on Israeli soil, an official here said Sunday, allowing early detection of incoming ballistic missiles and enhancing Israel’s defensive capability against any potential attack by Iran. 
