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Monday, 08 March 2010 |
 Reuters: Oil trading firms Trafigura and Vitol are stopping gasoline sales to Iran, industry sources said on Monday, joining a growing list of suppliers that have halted sales under threat of U.S. sanctions. |
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Monday, 08 March 2010 |
 AP: The Treasury Department is allowing the export of Internet communications services such as instant messaging, e-mail and Web browsing to Iran, Sudan and Cuba to help people in those countries communicate. |
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Monday, 08 March 2010 |
 Reuters: Iran's parliament approved President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's 2010/11 budget on Monday, state radio reported, but some lawmakers attacked the plan, saying planned cuts in subsidies could spark runaway inflation. |
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Monday, 08 March 2010 |
 Reuters: Iran's gas exports will have increased by around 35 percent in the year to March 20 while imports will fall by 25 percent compared with the previous year, a senior energy official was quoted as saying on Monday. |
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Monday, 08 March 2010 |
 AFP: General David Petraeus, the head of US Central Command, warned Sunday that Iran is becoming a "thugocracy" in attempts to suppress popular anger over last year's contested presidential vote results. |
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 |
 AP: Iran said Sunday it has launched a new production line of highly accurate, short range cruise missiles, which would add a new element to the country's already imposing arsenal. |
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 |
 Reuters: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad travels to neighboring Afghanistan on Monday for talks with his counterpart Hamid Karzai, an Iranian news agency reported on Sunday. |
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 |
 Reuters: Iran will start offering bonds worth a total of 1 billion euro on March 9, the Oil Ministry's website SHANA reported on Sunday. |
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 |
 New York Times: The federal government has awarded more than $107 billion in contract payments, grants and other benefits over the past decade to foreign and multinational American companies while they were doing business in Iran, despite Washington’s efforts to discourage investment there, records show. |
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 |
 Reuters: China's Foreign Minister said on Sunday new sanctions on Iran will not solve the standoff over its nuclear program, while chiding the United States after two months of tensions between the big powers. |
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 |
 Reuters: Iran Khodro, the Middle East's biggest car maker, said on Sunday it was breaking its own production record in the 2009/2010 year but it expressed concern about plans to cut high tariffs on imported vehicles.
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 |
 AP: Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday called the official version of the Sept. 11 attacks a "big lie" used by the U.S. as an excuse for the war on terror, state media reported. |
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Saturday, 06 March 2010 |
 AFP: Iran's firebrand President Mahmud Ahmadinejad on Saturday dismissed the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States as a "big lie," state media reported. |
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Saturday, 06 March 2010 |
 AFP: The United States urged Iran Friday to free a student said to face the death penalty over anti-government protests, warning Tehran that its rights record was worsening its ties with the world. |
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Saturday, 06 March 2010 |
 Reuters: Italian-Iranian relations hit a new low on Friday over the arrest of Iranian citizens accused of arms trafficking and espionage. |
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Friday, 05 March 2010 |
 AFP: The Iranian authorities prevented a son of opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi from travelling to London on Friday by seizing his passport at Tehran airport, Karroubi's website reported. |
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Friday, 05 March 2010 |
 Washington Post: The Obama administration is pushing to carve out an exemption for China and other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council from legislation pending in the Senate and the House that would tighten sanctions on companies doing business in Iran, administration and congressional sources said. |
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Friday, 05 March 2010 |
 DPA: Iran has summoned the Italian ambassador over the arrests of two Iranians accused of being involved in smuggling weapons to Iran, the Fars news agency reported Friday. |
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Friday, 05 March 2010 |
 AFP: Western nations pitched new sanctions against Iran in the Security Council Thursday amid signs that several members are reluctant to back a fourth round of punitive measures to deter Tehran's nuclear ambitions. |
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Thursday, 04 March 2010 |
 AP: U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay has singled out Iran for its crackdown on protestors after last year's election in an address at the U.N. Human Rights Council. |
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Thursday, 04 March 2010 |
 Reuters: Norway's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday it had asked Iran to remove one diplomat from Norway after Iranian authorities demanded one Norwegian diplomat leave Tehran. |
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Thursday, 04 March 2010 |
 AP: China said Thursday it will continue to push for a diplomatic resolution to the Iranian nuclear standoff, rebuffing efforts by Western powers to introduce a new set of sanctions against Iran. |
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 |
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AFP: Two Iranians and five Italians were arrested Wednesday in Italy on suspicion of trafficking arms to Iran in violation of international sanctions, a top anti-terrorist prosecutor said. |
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 |
 AP: The Berlin film festival is criticizing the arrest of acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi. |
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Mar. 03 - Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gloated on Wednesday that all serious threats against his government's nuclear program have been thwarted, state media reported. |
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 |
 AP: Germany's foreign minister says countries should vote against Iran when it seeks a seat later this year on the United Nations' Human Rights Council. |
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 |
 AFP: The United States and the European Union said Wednesday that there must be more sanctions against Iran's nuclear programme standoff if diplomacy fails to shift Tehran. |
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 |
 Reuters: Diversified industrial company Ingersoll-Rand Plc said it has fully disclosed its limited sales in Iran, and that all of them took place through non-U.S. subsidiaries. |
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AFP: Gabon will "work closely" with the United States and others to pressure Iran to comply with UN demands over its nuclear program, Gabonese President Ali Bongo said Monday. 
