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Israel cautions against Obama dialogue with Iran
Thursday, 06 November 2008
ImageReuters: Israel said on Thursday U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's stated readiness to talk to Iran could be seen in the Middle East as a sign of weakness in efforts to persuade Tehran to curb its nuclear programme.
 
Iranian interior minister sacked over fake Oxford degree
Wednesday, 05 November 2008

ImageThe Times: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran suffered a humiliating and politically damaging setback yesterday when his Interior Minister, Ali Kordan, was impeached by parliament for deception after he confessed to holding a forged law degree from the University of Oxford.

 
Tehran begins to feel the pain of finance crisis
Wednesday, 05 November 2008

ImageWashington Times: When the U.S. stock market plunged and venerable New York investment houses fell, some Iranian leaders said the Bush administration was paying the price for its aggressive, unilateral ways.

 
Iran: OPEC may need further cut if prices drop
Wednesday, 05 November 2008
ImageReuters: OPEC may need to cut its oil output more but it remained too early to tell if a further reduction was needed, Iran's OPEC governor Mohammad Ali Khatibi told Reuters on Wednesday.
 
Iran army warns US forces to steer clear of borders
Wednesday, 05 November 2008
ImageAFP: Tehran's military on Wednesday urged US forces to steer clear of Iran's borders with neighbouring Iraq and warned it would respond "to any invasion," the official IRNA news agency reported.
 
Iran warns U.S. not to violate Iranian airspace
Wednesday, 05 November 2008
ImageReuters: Iran's military has warned U.S. forces in Iraq that U.S. helicopters had been spotted flying close to the Iranian border and that Tehran would respond to any violation of its airspace, state radio reported on Wednesday.
 
Iran's interior minister sacked over fake degree
Tuesday, 04 November 2008
ImageAFP: Iran's parliament on Tuesday voted to sack Interior Minister Ali Kordan for lying about his credentials and presenting a fake degree from a prestigious British university.
 
NATO: Iran's threats to close Hormuz a 'fantasy'
Tuesday, 04 November 2008
ImageAP: The commander of NATO's naval forces says Iranian threats to close a strategic Persian Gulf waterway are imaginary.
 
Iran holds student living in U.S. on security charges
Tuesday, 04 November 2008
ImageReuters: An Iranian female student, who was arrested in Tehran last month while visiting from the United States, is accused of acting against national security, the judiciary said on Tuesday.
 
U.S. efforts divert Iran-bound cargo
Tuesday, 04 November 2008
ImageWashington Post: The United States thwarted a suspect shipment from North Korea to Iran by persuading the Indian government to deny clearance for the North Korean flight to travel through Indian airspace, U.S. officials said yesterday.
 
Scandal, fistfight erupt over impeachment move in Iran
Tuesday, 04 November 2008
ImageWashington Post: A move to impeach an Iranian minister, slated for Tuesday, has flared into a full-blown political scandal after an attempt to bribe lawmakers over the matter led to a fistfight between supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who, in turn, says parliament is out to sabotage his cabinet ahead of elections in June.
 
Iran parliament to impeach minister over fake degree
Tuesday, 04 November 2008
ImageAFP: Iran's parliament on Tuesday began a process to impeach Interior Minister Ali Kordan for "dishonesty" after he confessed to holding a fake Oxford University degree.
 
Iran FM condems US raid on solidarity visit to Syria
Tuesday, 04 November 2008
ImageAFP: Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and denounced last week's US helicopter raid on a Syrian village as he made a solidarity visit to Damascus on Monday.
 
UAE's Crescent sees Iran gas exports online soon
Monday, 03 November 2008
ImageReuters: The United Arab Emirates' Crescent Petroleum said on Monday it was confident that a long-delayed deal to import gas from Iran would come to fruition "soon."
 
Iran says oil under 60 dollars troubling for economy
Monday, 03 November 2008
ImageAFP: Iran's central bank warned on Monday that if oil prices fall under 60 dollars a barrel, the country's oil-dependent economy will struggle to survive the world financial crisis, the ISNA news agency reported.
 
Army 'spy' jury considers verdict
Monday, 03 November 2008

ImageBBC: The jury in the Old Bailey trial of an army interpreter accused of spying for Iran is considering its verdict.

 
UAE challenges Iran with US-inspired confidence
Monday, 03 November 2008
ImageAP: Emboldened by its close ties to the U.S., the United Arab Emirates is taking a more aggressive approach to challenging Iran over a territorial claim to three tiny Persian Gulf islands — even at the risk of antagonizing its powerful neighbor.
 
Iran government aide sacked in row over fake Oxford degree
Monday, 03 November 2008
ImageAFP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday he had sacked an aide who was banned from parliament for seeking to bribe MPs to vote against impeaching a minister who lied about having an Oxford degree.
 
Iran marks U.S. embassy seizure, some ponder ties
Monday, 03 November 2008
ImageReuters: Iranians marked the 1979 seizure of the U.S. embassy on Monday, a day before Americans elect a new president, with some demonstrators indifferent to the U.S. vote and a few wondering if it could help rebuild ties.
 
Iran aide banned from parliament over corruption row
Monday, 03 November 2008
ImageAFP: An Iranian government aide was banned from parliament on Sunday for seeking to pay MPs to vote against impeaching the interior minister, who lied about his education.
 
Iran upholds sentence against Kurdish activist
Sunday, 02 November 2008
ImageAP: Iran's appeals court has upheld an 11-year jail sentence against a prominent Kurdish human rights activist, his lawyer said Saturday.
 
US student held in notorious Iran torture prison
Sunday, 02 November 2008
ImageSunday Times: Esha Momeni, an American student visiting Iran, has been arrested and held in solitary confinement in the notorious section 209 of Tehran’s Evin prison for daring to campaign for women’s rights.
 
Tehran says Russia eyes gas swaps with Iran
Sunday, 02 November 2008
ImageReuters: Russia is interested in gas swaps with Iran, Iran's Oil Ministry news website reported on Saturday, in a fresh sign of efforts to deepen ties between two states who together account for 40 percent of world reserves.
 
Iran tells Total about oil cut sales
Sunday, 02 November 2008
ImageReuters: Iran's oil minister said on Saturday France's Total, which buys Iranian crude, had been informed it would receive less oil in line with an OPEC decision to cut output starting November 1, a news agency reported.
 
US says 39 Iranian-funded 'criminals' arrested in Iraq
Saturday, 01 November 2008
ImageAFP: The US military said on Friday it had arrested 39 Iranian-sponsored "criminals" in Iraq this month and had seized some 500,000 dollars meant to fund militancy in the war-wracked country.
 
Ex-speaker denounces 'cash-for-votes' in Iran parliament
Saturday, 01 November 2008
ImageAFP: A former speaker of parliament has denounced reports that Iranian MPs are being offered government cash to vote against impeaching the interior minister, who lied about his education, the Mehr news agency said Friday.
 
Iran strives to expand oil refineries
Saturday, 01 November 2008
ImageWall Street Journal: As Western powers talk of targeting Iranian gasoline imports in fresh economic sanctions, the Islamic republic is scrambling to boost its refining capacity and tamp down domestic demand.
 
Ahmadinejad slams US raid as 'savage act'
Saturday, 01 November 2008
ImageAFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday slammed a deadly US raid on a Syrian village as a "savage act", state news agency IRNA said.
 
Fresh from Iraq success, Petraeus takes on Afghanistan, Iran
Friday, 31 October 2008
ImageAFP: Crowned with success in Iraq, General David Petraeus, who takes command Friday of US military forces in the Middle East and Central Asia, inherits the next big challenge: devising a winning strategy in Afghanistan.
 
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Iran's nuclear standoff
  • Reuters: The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei should report on Iran's nuclear programme neutrally and with fairness, an influential cleric said on Friday after this week's report on Iran's atomic work.

  • Reuters: Iran rejected Friday U.S. reports it had enriched enough uranium to make an atom bomb, saying this would require steps it had ruled out like ejecting U.N. inspectors and leaving the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

  • Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 20 - The following is the full text of the most recent report by the International Atomic Energy Agency's director-general on the level of Iranian cooperation over its suspected nuclear weapons program.

  • Reuters: The UK government accused Iran on Thursday of failing to cooperate with a United Nations watchdog and said this increased its concerns over Tehran's nuclear programme.

  • New York Times: Iran has now produced roughly enough nuclear material to make, with added purification, a single atom bomb, according to nuclear experts analyzing the latest report from global atomic inspectors.

  • Wall Street Journal: United Nations investigators found "significant" traces of uranium used in reactors at the wreckage of a Syrian facility that Israel bombed last year, and Iran is ramping up production of nuclear fuel while denying investigators access, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported Wednesday.

  • Reuters: An inquiry by the U.N. nuclear watchdog into alleged atom bomb research by Iran has degenerated into a silent standoff a few months after Tehran asserted "the matter is over," U.N. officials said on Wednesday.

  • AFP: Iran is still defying UN demands to suspend uranium enrichment and not cooperating with investigations into claims that its nuclear programme has a military aspect, the UN atomic watchdog said Wednesday.

  • Reuters: Iran is aiming to commission its first nuclear power plant in 2009 after years of delays, the official IRNA news agency reported on Tuesday.

  • Los Angeles Times: World powers this week failed to come up with a unified strategy to press Iran on halting controversial elements of its nuclear program, as a report emerged suggesting the country had made progress in advancing a little-examined feature of its atomic infrastructure.

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