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Monday, 25 August 2008 |
 New York Sun: On the heels of a breakdown in talks intended by the West to defuse the Iranian nuclear crisis, Iran is planning to build a new nuclear power facility. |
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Monday, 25 August 2008 |
 AP: A passenger jet carrying 90 people, including a Kyrgyz high school sports team, crashed shortly after takeoff Sunday near the Kyrgyz capital, killing 65, government officials said. |
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Monday, 25 August 2008 |
 New York Times: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme religious leader, responded to mounting domestic criticism of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with a strong statement of support, praising his internal policies and his dogged defense of the country’s nuclear program, Iranian news media reported Sunday. |
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Monday, 25 August 2008 |
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 AP: Iran's official news agency says the country has begun designing its second light-water nuclear power plant, a 360-megawatt facility in the southwest.
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Sunday, 24 August 2008 |
 AP: Iran's supreme leader was quoted Sunday as praising President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for "standing up to" the West in a dispute over the country's nuclear program, amid growing domestic criticism of the president's management. |
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Sunday, 24 August 2008 |
 Reuters: Israel will be targeted by thousands of rockets if it attacks Iran, a senior official in the Tehran-backed group Hezbollah said on Sunday. |
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Sunday, 24 August 2008 |
 AFP: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against economic policies which would further fuel inflation, a press report said on Sunday. |
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Sunday, 24 August 2008 |
 Reuters: The conflict between Russia and Georgia may indirectly benefit Iran by making it more difficult for the West to reach consensus with Moscow on new U.N. sanctions, Iranian newspapers said on Sunday. |
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Sunday, 24 August 2008 |
 AFP: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday praised the country's government for resisting international pressure on the Islamic republic to halt its controversial nuclear programme. |
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Sunday, 24 August 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran plans to launch a telecommunications satellite, the president said on Saturday, using missile technology the West fears is being developed to fire nuclear warheads. |
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Sunday, 24 August 2008 |
 AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad renewed his verbal attacks on arch-foe Israel on Saturday, accusing it of dragging the world into turmoil and predicting its demise. |
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Saturday, 23 August 2008 |
 AP: President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki spoke Friday by secure video as work on a plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq by 2011 continued. |
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Saturday, 23 August 2008 |
 AFP: From "surrender date" to "aspirational time horizon," US President George W. Bush seemed poised Friday to seal a reversal in Iraq policy by accepting a target withdrawal date. |
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Friday, 22 August 2008 |
 AP: Militant Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr plans to make a series of short visits to Iraq starting within weeks but has decided to make Iran his home base for years to come, a key aide says. |
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Friday, 22 August 2008 |
 AFP: American sanctions on Iran's financial sector have not hampered business for Bank Mellat, one of Iran's major state-owned banks, its managing director said in an interview published Friday. |
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
 Reuters: The head of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) travels to energy-hungry China next week to broaden cooperation, the Oil Ministry said on Thursday, a move that reflects Iran's increasing efforts to draw Asian investors. |
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
 AFP: Iran's central bank has begun issuing its own high-denomination paper notes to replace the promissory notes issued by private banks which will now be banned, state media said on Thursday. |
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
 Reuters: Gulf Arab countries have denounced Iran's installation of offices on a disputed island in the strategic Gulf waterway and compared its presence there to Israel's occupation of Arab land. |
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
 New York Times: Iran has executed a 20-year-old man who was sentenced to death for a murder he committed when he was 15, reviving an international debate over its punishment of minors. |
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
 Wall Street Journal - REVIEW & OUTLOOK: In the war on terror, the U.S. has had no greater friend than the United Kingdom. And as the U.S. economy continues to suffer under the burdens of Sarbanes-Oxley, our British friends have demonstrated a more sensible approach to financial regulation. |
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
 Reuters: A truck packed full of illegal Afghan migrants crashed in Iran on Thursday, killing 30 people, Iran's Fars News Agency reported. |
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran plans to send a manned rocket into space in the next 10 years, state television reported on Thursday, just days after the Islamic Republic announced it had put a dummy satellite into orbit. |
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008 |
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 BBC: Amnesty International has condemned the hanging in Iran of Reza Hejazi, who was executed for a crime he committed when he was under 18 years old.
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008 |
 AFP: Iran has banned an award-winning young actress from leaving the country over her appearance in a star-studded Hollywood production, the state news agency IRNA said on Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008 |
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Reuters: Iran has emerged as one of the top buyers of wheat from the United States this marketing year, but political tensions between the two countries make it unlikely that Tehran will be a regular buyer from the world's top wheat exporter. |
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008 |
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MSNBC: Last weekend's launch of an Iranian rocket sparked days of debate over what its intended mission was — and although officials in Tehran are characterizing it as merely a test of the launch vehicle, U.S. military intelligence officials now see it as a failed attempt to put a satellite in orbit. |
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008 |
 AFP: An Iranian missile test aimed at putting a dummy satellite into orbit failed, a US defense official said Tuesday. |
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran's attempted satellite launch was a failure that fell far short of claimed successes, U.S. security officials said on Tuesday, but an analyst said the test still marked progress toward a potential weapon. |
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AP: Iranian state TV says the country has launched production of a domestically built submarine capable of firing missiles and torpedoes. 
