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Monday, 22 September 2008 |
 AFP: The White House said Monday that it was "seriously concerned" about Iran's apparent lack of cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog agency's probe into Tehran's suspect atomic program. |
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Monday, 22 September 2008 |
 AP: The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency warned Monday that Iran may be hiding secret nuclear activities, comments that appeared to reflect a high level of frustration with stonewalling of his investigators. |
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Monday, 22 September 2008 |
 AFP: Foreign ministers from the six powers leading the international community's response to Iran's nuclear programme are to meet Thursday in New York to consider possible further sanctions, France said. |
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Monday, 22 September 2008 |
 Reuters: The U.N. nuclear watchdog chief on Monday rejected Iran's argument that an investigation into its atomic program threatened its national security, telling Tehran he could ensure confidentiality if it cooperated. |
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Monday, 22 September 2008 |
 AP: Hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday that Iran's military will "break the hand" of anyone targeting his country's nuclear facilities. |
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Monday, 22 September 2008 |
 AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned on Sunday that the nation's military will "break the hands" of invaders if attacked, as the war of words over its nuclear ambitions intensified. |
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Sunday, 21 September 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran will stop any attacker before he can "pull the trigger" and sanctions intended to isolate the Islamic Republic have not worked, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a military parade on Sunday. |
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Sunday, 21 September 2008 |
 AFP: Groups of Shiite extremists trained in Iran are returning to Iraq with plans to bomb high-profile targets, the chief of Dhi Qar province's police said Saturday. |
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Sunday, 21 September 2008 |
 Sunday Times: Russia will resist western pressure for tougher United Nations sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme, it said yesterday. |
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Sunday, 21 September 2008 |
 AFP: The president of Iran's central bank has been replaced after inflation rose more than 27 percent in the year that he held the office, a senior government official told AFP on Saturday. |
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Saturday, 20 September 2008 |
 Reuters: Russia is against the United Nations taking any extra measures on Iran over its nuclear program for now, and thinks efforts towards dialogue should continue, the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday. |
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Saturday, 20 September 2008 |
 Washington Times: Stephen Hadley, the president's national security advisor, said Friday that Iran’s recent defiance of international nuclear monitors is “troubling,” but expressed hope that Russia will continue to work with the U.S. on pressuring Tehran. |
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Saturday, 20 September 2008 |
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 Los Angeles Times: Iran's highest authority lashed out against Israel on Friday with some of his harshest comments in recent memory about the Jewish state.
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Saturday, 20 September 2008 |
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 New York Times: Iran’s supreme religious leader on Friday rejected the notion that his country was a friend to the Israeli people, but he also called on critics of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to stop using the issue to undermine him.
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Friday, 19 September 2008 |
 AFP: The United States and five other powers meeting here Friday are "committed to exploring possible further" sanctions against Iran to halt its sensitive nuclear work, the State Department said. |
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Friday, 19 September 2008 |
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 SPIEGEL ONLINE: Hoping to accommodate Tehran, Brussels placed an Iranian dissident group on the EU list of terrorist organizations -- and got the bloc's agriculture ministers to rubber stamp the decision without any debate. Now lawyers from across Europe are accusing the EU of abusing the law.
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Friday, 19 September 2008 |
 AFP: The six powers leading negotiations over Iran's suspect nuclear program met here Friday to hammer out new sanctions against Tehran, complicated by tensions between Moscow and the West. |
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Friday, 19 September 2008 |
 AFP: Four members of the Iranian security forces, including a general, have been killed in clashes with rebels in the southeast, the semi-official Fars news agency said on Friday quoting a police official. |
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Friday, 19 September 2008 |
 AFP: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denounced Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, the aide to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who said Iran was a friend of the Israeli people, but also urged an end to the war of words. |
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Friday, 19 September 2008 |
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 The Times: Russia defied the United States yesterday by announcing plans to sell military hardware to Iran and Venezuela.
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Friday, 19 September 2008 |
 Reuters: Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will not speak at a rally against the president of Iran next week and White House hopeful Sen. John McCain said on Thursday organizers had withdrawn her invitation under pressure from their Democratic rivals. |
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Friday, 19 September 2008 |
 AP: The next president would be wise to make contingency plans for a military attack against Iran, but even a successful strike might not stop Tehran's development of nuclear weapons, a bipartisan study group has concluded. |
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Friday, 19 September 2008 |
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 The Times: No wonder that Tzipi Livni’s campaign managers were edgy just before the polls opened. Sitting in their offices, under thin-lipped posters of their normally photogenic champion, they talked at twice normal speed about how she was sure to win.
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Thursday, 18 September 2008 |
 AP: The European Union's foreign policy chief says he believes Russia and China are "quite worried" about a new IAEA report that says Iran has blocked efforts to investigate its nuclear program. |
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Thursday, 18 September 2008 |
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Reuters: Major powers meet in Washington on Friday to haggle over a fourth round of U.N. sanctions against Iran, but tensions with Russia and the U.S. political calendar hang over the timing of any new measures. |
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Thursday, 18 September 2008 |
 Reuters: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday Iran would not halt sensitive nuclear work the West suspects is aimed at making bombs and brushed aside threats of more sanctions. |
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Thursday, 18 September 2008 |
 AP: Iranian media reports say hackers have shut down the Web sites of several hundred Shiite clerics and seminary schools. |
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Thursday, 18 September 2008 |
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 Wall Street Journal: Federal prosecutors on Wednesday unsealed charges against alleged members of a global network procuring potentially sensitive electronic components for Iran -- including some, they said, that were used to make deadly roadside bombs used against U.S. troops in Iraq.
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Los Angeles Times: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared Monday that the turmoil on Wall Street was rooted in part in U.S. military intervention abroad and voiced hope that the next American administration would retreat from what he called President Bush's "logic of force." 
