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Thursday, 09 October 2008 |
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 The Guardian: There are many ways for an MP to win over fellow parliamentarians but for Hasan Kamran, blowing the whistle on their cushy expenses was never likely to be one of them.
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Thursday, 09 October 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran's annual inflation rate jumped 1.8 percentage points in September to 29.4 percent, Iranian media said on Thursday, highlighting a growing source of discontent ahead of next year's presidential election. |
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Thursday, 09 October 2008 |
 AFP: Shopkeepers in Iran's traditional bazaars pressed on with strikes on Wednesday to protest against the government's introduction of value added tax amid mounting pressure on retail prices. |
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Thursday, 09 October 2008 |
 AFP: The six powers trying to scale back Iran's nuclear ambitions will consult soon via telephone about the "next steps" to take at the United Nations, a State Department official said Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 08 October 2008 |
 Canadian Press: German authorities have arrested a Canadian-Iranian citizen on suspicion of breaking a trade embargo with Iran by selling them technical equipment. |
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Wednesday, 08 October 2008 |
 New York Times: An Iranian news agency said Tuesday that a United States warplane had been forced to land in Iran, but the United States military denied the claim, and Tehran quickly withdrew it. |
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Wednesday, 08 October 2008 |
 Reuters: U.S. presidential candidates Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama both said on Tuesday they would work if elected to toughen sanctions on Iran to stop it acquiring nuclear weapons. |
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Wednesday, 08 October 2008 |
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 Daily Telegraph: For a fleeting period on Tuesday afternoon, Tehran's official news agencies claimed that Iranian jet fighters had forced an American plane to land and officials were interrogating its military crew.
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Wednesday, 08 October 2008 |
 AFP: China will continue to take part in multilateral talks on the Iranian and North Korean nuclear crises despite the country's objections to US plans to sell arms to Taiwan, a US state department official said on Tuesday. |
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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 |
 Reuters: A senior Iranian official denied on Tuesday a local news agency report that a U.S. military plane had violated the country's airspace and was forced to land, saying both the aircraft and the people on board were Hungarian. |
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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 |
 AFP: Foreign Secretary David Miliband warned Tuesday of a nuclear arms race in the Middle East if Iran was allowed to press ahead unchecked with a uranium enrichment programme. |
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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran has accused six major powers of "unreasonable behaviour" over its disputed nuclear programme, but the European Union said on Tuesday it would stick to a dual approach combining diplomacy with the threat of sanctions. |
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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 |
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 BBC: A US plane has been forced to land in Iran after violating Iranian territory, the Iranian semi-official Fars news agency has reported.
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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 |
 AP: A top Iranian military official on Tuesday urged Iraq to reject a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security deal, calling the agreement a "disgrace." |
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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 |
 AFP: Iraqi parliament speaker Mahmud al-Mashhadani arrived in the Iranian capital on Tuesday, a day after his plane was refused permission to land in Tehran, state television reported. |
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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 |
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 The Guardian: Iran's biggest motor manufacturer is to take the country's gender sensitivity to new levels by producing a car specially for women.
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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 |
 Reuters: The United States will not permit Israel to attack Iran's nuclear programme as long as American troops are stationed in Iraq, an Israeli television report quoting unnamed diplomatic sources said on Monday. |
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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 |
 AFP: Iran insisted that Iraqi parliament speaker Mahmud Mashhadani was still welcome to visit after his plane was refused permission to land in Tehran on Monday. |
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Monday, 06 October 2008 |
 AP: An Iraqi parliamentary official says the plane carrying Iraq's Sunni parliamentary speaker has been refused entry into Iran. |
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Monday, 06 October 2008 |
 Reuters: NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said on Monday he was not certain the world can stop Iran from building a nuclear bomb. |
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Monday, 06 October 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran will hand over a letter later on Monday to European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana regarding the dispute over the country's nuclear program, a senior Iranian official told Reuters. |
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Monday, 06 October 2008 |
 AFP: Iran's nuclear negotiator Said Jalili has written to EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana to protest over the West's attitude to the Islamic republic's atomic programme, a senior Iranian official said on Monday. |
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Monday, 06 October 2008 |
 AFP: Iran has banned imports of Chinese milk products over a contamination scandal which has left thousands of babies ill in China, local media reported on Monday. |
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Monday, 06 October 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran has not received Russia's advanced S-300 anti-aircraft system yet though the countries are still discussing a purchase, Israeli defense sources said on Sunday, revising earlier statements that a deal was imminent. |
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Monday, 06 October 2008 |
 AP: Iran says it has not received any request from the United States to establish a diplomatic outpost in Tehran. |
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Monday, 06 October 2008 |
 AFP: Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, in an interview published Monday, said his country did not believed Israel or the United States would launch a military strike against Iran over its nuclear program. |
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Sunday, 05 October 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran will not stop uranium enrichment even if it is guaranteed supplies of nuclear fuel from abroad, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Sunday. |
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Sunday, 05 October 2008 |
 Reuters: The Bush administration is still considering setting up a diplomatic outpost in Iran, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Sunday. |
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AFP: The chairman of Iran's biggest car maker accused France of "inappropriate policies", which he said are hampering joint ventures in a country where French manufacturers have a 40 to 50 percent market share. 
