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Monday, 27 October 2008 |
 AP: An Iranian government Web site is quoting a top Revolutionary Guards commander as saying Iran supplies weapons to "liberation armies" in the Middle East. |
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Monday, 27 October 2008 |
 AFP: Ali Akbar Velayati, an adviser to Iran's supreme leader, has ruled out standing in presidential elections slated for June 2009, Iran's labour news agency ILNA reported on Sunday. |
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Sunday, 26 October 2008 |
 AP: Iran's OPEC governor says the organization may consider another cut in oil production due to a glut in the market. |
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Sunday, 26 October 2008 |
 AFP: Iran's parliament will move to impeach Interior Minister Ali Kordan for "dishonesty" early November after he confessed to holding a fake Oxford University degree, the ISNA news agency said on Sunday. |
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Sunday, 26 October 2008 |
 AP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has fallen ill due to exhaustion brought on by his heavy workload, the state-run news agency reported quoting a close associate. |
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Sunday, 26 October 2008 |
 AFP: As the United States and Iraq approach a deal on the future US military presence in the country, Baghdad is trapped between Washington's demands and Tehran's fears about US influence in the region, politicians and analysts say. |
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Saturday, 25 October 2008 |
 Wall Street Journal: If dramatically lower oil prices last, they could eventually threaten Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's free-spending policies at home and the country's expansionist ambitions across the Middle East. |
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Saturday, 25 October 2008 |
 Washington Post: The State Department has slapped financial sanctions on Russia's state arms exporter for its dealings with Iran, but in an unusual move, it granted the company a partial waiver to permit the sale of nearly two dozen Russian helicopters to Iraq, U.S. officials said yesterday. |
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Saturday, 25 October 2008 |
 AFP: The influential former president of OPEC's second largest oil producer Iran on Friday called the world financial crisis a tsunami which has dragged down oil prices and caused a huge loss of revenue. |
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Friday, 24 October 2008 |
 New York Times: A prominent Iranian opposition group won an appeal on Thursday against a European Union decision to freeze its funds. |
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Friday, 24 October 2008 |
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 Daily Telegraph: A British Army translator accused of spying for Iran was a voodoo priest who used black magic to protect the commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan from the Taliban, a court heard.
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Friday, 24 October 2008 |
 AP: A British army interpreter suspected of spying for Iran said Friday that he sent coded messages as part of an attempt to set up a possible gas deal, not because he was stealing secrets. |
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Friday, 24 October 2008 |
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 Wall Street Journal: Europe's second-highest court ruled the European Union wrongly blacklisted an Iranian opposition group, adding fuel to accusations that the bloc has used its terrorist list to appease the Iranian government.
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Friday, 24 October 2008 |
 AFP: The United States is asking Switzerland, which represents US interests in Tehran, to find out more about an Iranian-American student reportedly held since October 15 in Tehran, the State Department said Friday. |
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Friday, 24 October 2008 |
 AP: The Bush administration is imposing new sanctions on Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, accusing the elite military unit of illegal trade in missile technology and weapons of mass destruction. |
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Thursday, 23 October 2008 |
 AFP: Iran's oil minister on Thursday said that a drop in demand meant OPEC should decide to cut production by two million barrels per day when it meets for a meeting here on Friday. |
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Thursday, 23 October 2008 |
 AFP: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday rejected Iran's warnings that a draft security pact will hurt Iraq, saying the Iraqis can "defend their interests without the Iranians." |
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Thursday, 23 October 2008 |
 Reuters: The Export Development Bank of Iran (EDBI) denied on Thursday U.S. Treasury charges it was a proliferator of weapons of mass destruction and said Washington had taken the step to try to cover up its own economic woes. |
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Thursday, 23 October 2008 |
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 Washington Post: It is likely that the first and most pressing national security issue the next president will face is the growing prospect of a nuclear-weapons-capable Iran.
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Thursday, 23 October 2008 |
 AFP: More than one in 10 people in Iran's workforce are now without jobs, Labour Minister Mohammad Jahromi said in comments published on Thursday. |
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Thursday, 23 October 2008 |
 Press Association: Europe's governments were ordered by a court to follow the UK's lead and take Iran's main opposition group off a blacklist of suspected terror organisations. |
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Thursday, 23 October 2008 |
 AFP: A European court on Thursday annulled an EU decision to freeze the assets of the main Iranian opposition in exile, dealing a fresh blow to the bloc's attempts to keep the group on its terror blacklist. |
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Thursday, 23 October 2008 |
 Reuters: Iraq does not need Iran to help defend its interests, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday, after Iran charged that Washington sought to continue "looting" Iraq with a new security pact. |
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Thursday, 23 October 2008 |
 AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will have a hard time meeting his election pledge of "putting oil money on people's tables" as crude prices tumble, industrial investment shrinks and spending on imports soars. |
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Wednesday, 22 October 2008 |
 AP: The Bush administration is imposing financial sanctions on the Export Development Bank of Iran for allegedly providing financial services in support of the country's weapons program. |
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Wednesday, 22 October 2008 |
 AP: An influential Iraqi cleric living in Iran on Wednesday issued a fatwa condemning a U.S.-Iraqi security pact that would keep American troops in Iraq for three more years and warned Iraqi leaders not to back the deal. |
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Wednesday, 22 October 2008 |
 Wall Street Journal - REVIEW & OUTLOOK: Barack Obama's declaration that, if elected, he would be willing to sit down and talk to Iran "without preconditions" has been widely discussed in this country. |
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Wednesday, 22 October 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran will refuse any request by U.S.-based non-governmental organization American-Iranian Council (AIC) to open an office in the Islamic Republic, the interior minister said in comments published on Wednesday. |
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Reuters: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday he was healthy, countering reports suggesting he was ill and that his political future could be threatened. 
