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Wednesday, 12 November 2008 |
 New York Times: Turkey wants to be the mediator between the new Obama administration and Iran, using its growing role in the Middle East to bridge the divide between East and West, said Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. |
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008 |
 AP: Senior diplomats from six world powers are to meet this week to discuss stalled efforts to impose new sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, a senior U.S. official said Tuesday. |
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008 |
 Reuters: Senior officials from major powers will meet in Paris on Thursday to discuss the next steps in their showdown with Iran over its nuclear programme, a European diplomatic source said. |
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 11 – Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki started his four-nation regional tour of South-East Asia in Malaysia, spokesperson Hassan Qashqavi said on Monday.
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008 |
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 Reuters: Iran has test-fired a new type of missile during war games near the Iraqi border, state television said on Tuesday, after warning the United States it would respond to any violation of Iranian airspace.
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 11 - Iran plans to build a new IRAN-140 aircraft capable of marine patrol and cargo transportation, state media reported on Monday.
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Monday, 10 November 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 10 – The headquarters of the subway in Tehran caught fire on Monday.
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Monday, 10 November 2008 |
 AP: Iran's foreign ministry says the Mideast Quartet meeting last weekend in Egypt proves that the U.S. initiative for peace in the region has failed. |
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Monday, 10 November 2008 |
 AP: Senior U.S. and European officials met with several Arab leaders Sunday who are worried about the international community negotiating a deal with Iran that would give the Islamic Republic more power in the Middle East, said a U.S. official and a meeting participant. |
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Monday, 10 November 2008 |
 AP: Iranian newspapers are reporting that 60 economists criticized President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over his economic policies. |
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Monday, 10 November 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran has closed down a prominent reformist weekly which has often criticised the policies of conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, media said on Sunday. |
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Sunday, 09 November 2008 |
 AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday nominated a close aide as Interior Minister four days after parliament sacked Ali Kordan for lying about his credentials, Fars news agency reported. |
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Sunday, 09 November 2008 |
 AFP: Iran's parliament on Sunday tightened the rules for people wishing to run for president, setting age limits and strict educational criteria in a bid to deter frivolous candidacies. |
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Sunday, 09 November 2008 |
 AFP: Iran's parliament speaker Ali Larijani slammed US president-elect Barack Obama on Saturday for saying Tehran's pursuit of nuclear weapons was "unacceptable," the official IRNA news agency reported. |
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Sunday, 09 November 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran's head of parliament on Saturday criticized U.S. President-elect Barack Obama for saying its development of a nuclear weapon would be "unacceptable" and repeated the Islamic state's call for fundamental policy change. |
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Saturday, 08 November 2008 |
 Washington Post: President-elect Barack Obama stepped carefully yesterday when he was asked about the unusual letter of congratulations that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent him -- the first time an Iranian leader has congratulated the victor of a U.S. presidential election since the 1979 Islamic revolution. |
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Saturday, 08 November 2008 |
 Reuters: An international effort must be made to keep Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, U.S. President-elect Barack Obama said on Friday. |
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Friday, 07 November 2008 |
 AFP: US President-elect Barack Obama said Friday that Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons was "unacceptable" and the Islamic Republic must stop supporting "terrorist organizations." |
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Friday, 07 November 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran said Friday EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana had urged the Islamic state to hold fresh talks to remove remaining concerns over its disputed nuclear program, the students' news agency ISNA reported. |
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Friday, 07 November 2008 |
 Chicago Tribune: A multitude of foreign policy challenges, perhaps chief among them how to deal with the ayatollahs' regime in Iran, awaits President-elect Barack Obama. |
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Friday, 07 November 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran has cut oil production by 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) from 4.04 million bpd, in line with an OPEC agreement to find ways to support declining crude prices, a director of the state oil company said on Friday. |
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Friday, 07 November 2008 |
 Reuters: The U.S. Treasury on Thursday moved to close off one of Iran's last available entry points into the U.S. financial system by revoking its licence for "U-turn" bank transfers, which briefly enter the United States before being sent to offshore banks. |
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Friday, 07 November 2008 |
 AP: The Bush administration moved Thursday to clamp down on Iran by barring financial institutions from routing certain money transfers through the United States on behalf of Iranian banks, Iran's government and others in the country. |
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Friday, 07 November 2008 |
 AFP: The United States has set up new barriers to Iran's access to the US financial system by banning certain types of fund transfers, the Treasury Department said Thursday. |
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Friday, 07 November 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 07 – Iran aims to increase its annual commercial and trade exchange with Brazil from 2 to 10 billion dollars, state media reported.
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Thursday, 06 November 2008 |
 AFP: The Iranian press watchdog has banned popular moderate weekly, Shahrvand Emrouz, which has been critical of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the magazine's lawyer told AFP on Thursday. |
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Thursday, 06 November 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran has approved the commercial viability of natural gas production at the Farsi block operated by Indian firms, which will now submit a $3 billion development plan to Tehran, a senior source at a firm holding a stake in the block said. |
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Thursday, 06 November 2008 |
 Reuters: A senior Iranian official called on U.S. President-elect Barack Obama Thursday to show goodwill and remove sanctions against the Islamic Republic, an Iranian news agency reported. |
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Daily Telegraph: Iran is claiming to be backing the creation of Islamic studies departments at British universities.
