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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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Friday, 26 September 2008 |
 Los Angeles Times: U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker on Thursday accused Iran of "pushing very hard" to derail a security agreement that would authorize American troops to remain in Iraq past Dec. 31. |
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Friday, 26 September 2008 |
 Daily Telegraph: Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov used a series of meetings with his Western counterparts, including David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, to signal that Moscow had gone cold on international efforts to reign in the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea. |
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Thursday, 25 September 2008 |
 AP: Iran needs the ability to produce nuclear fuel because it cannot rely on other nations to supply enriched uranium to the Islamic regime's planned reactors, the Iranian president said Thursday. |
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Thursday, 25 September 2008 |
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 The Guardian: Israel gave serious thought this spring to launching a military strike on Iran's nuclear sites but was told by President George W Bush that he would not support it and did not expect to revise that view for the rest of his presidency, senior European diplomatic sources have told the Guardian.
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Thursday, 25 September 2008 |
 AP: Iran plans to launch a satellite into space soon using its own satellite carrier rocket, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said. |
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Thursday, 25 September 2008 |
 AFP: The United States and Russia agreed here to hold further ministerial-level meetings in the future in a bid to stop Iran's sensitive nuclear work, a senior US official said Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 24 September 2008 |
 Bloomberg: Iran's cooperation with atomic inspectors over a cache of alleged documents showing the Persian Gulf country sought to make a nuclear weapon was a mistake and will be limited in the future, an Iranian diplomat said. |
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Wednesday, 24 September 2008 |
 Reuters: Western powers said on Wednesday that Iran's expansion of uranium enrichment, while stalling an inquiry into its nuclear program, posed a crucial challenge to the UN atomic watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency. |
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Wednesday, 24 September 2008 |
 AFP: France still hopes the six world powers leading an international response to Iran's nuclear programme will meet this week, despite Russian reluctance, the foreign ministry said Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 24 September 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran has doubled the number of police assigned to its more than year-long crackdown against women flouting Islamic dress codes, Kargozaran newspaper said on Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 24 September 2008 |
 AP: Iran is nearing the ability to arm a nuclear warhead even if it insists its atomic activities are peaceful, the European Union warned Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 24 September 2008 |
 New York Times: Russia said on Tuesday that it would not participate in a meeting with the United States this week to discuss Iran’s nuclear program, the most significant indication yet of how Russia’s war with Georgia has spoiled relations regarding other security issues. |
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Wednesday, 24 September 2008 |
 Bloomberg: Iran is seeking to build a $4 billion natural-gas pipeline to the European Union that may rival projects backed by the EU and Russia. |
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Wednesday, 24 September 2008 |
 AFP: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Tuesday condemned Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's anti-Zionist and anti-US remarks in his speech at the UN General Assembly. |
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Wednesday, 24 September 2008 |
 CNN: In a blistering speech before the United Nations General Assembly, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blamed "a few bullying powers" for creating the world's problems and said the "American empire in the world is reaching the end of its road." |
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Tuesday, 23 September 2008 |
 Bloomberg: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner called on Iran to extradite five former officials to stand trial for a 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people and injured 150. |
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Tuesday, 23 September 2008 |
 Reuters: French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned Russia after its war with Georgia that force cannot be used to settle disputes and made plain to Iran he would push hard for a new round of sanctions over its nuclear program. |
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Tuesday, 23 September 2008 |
 AFP: US President George W. Bush accused Syria and Iran Tuesday of sponsoring terrorism and said that such violence "has no place in the modern world" in his farewell speech to the UN General Assembly. |
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Tuesday, 23 September 2008 |
 Los Angeles Times: The world's top arms control authority harshly criticized Iran on Monday, saying it had failed to clear up questions about its nuclear past, while the Islamic Republic accused the agency of becoming a tool for Western pressure. |
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Tuesday, 23 September 2008 |
 Reuters: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a U.S. newspaper the Wall Street crisis stemmed partly from American military interventions and said the next U.S. president should back off what he called President George W. Bush's confrontational policies. |
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Tuesday, 23 September 2008 |
 Washington Post: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has dismissed Central Bank Governor Tahmasb Mazaheri and his replacement will be announced Wednesday, according to a Central Bank official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. |
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Tuesday, 23 September 2008 |
 Bloomberg: Iran Air, the country's state-owned airline, will cancel its direct flights to Tokyo from next month after 33 years of service, Iran Daily reported, citing a company official. |
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Tuesday, 23 September 2008 |
 Reuters: The White House on Monday expressed concern about Iran's lack of cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog and said Tehran must provide "substantial information and access" to the agency. |
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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. 
