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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 |
 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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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 |
 Bloomberg: Italy’s Finance Police said it arrested five Italians and four suspected Iranian agents on suspicion of weapons trafficking to Iran. |
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Mar. 03 - Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali Asghar Soltanieh on Wednesday criticised the IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano's report on Iran’s nuclear file for opening doors which had already been closed by Iran, state media reported. |
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 |
 AP: An Iranian opposition-run Web site says an appeals court has upheld the death sentence for a student who took part in an anti-government rally in December that left eight people dead. |
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 |
 Reuters: Nine people, including some believed to belong to the Iranian secret services, have been arrested on suspicion of arms trafficking to Iran, Italian police said on Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 |
 AFP: The United States sees Iran's failure to allay Western concerns over its suspect nuclear program as "alarming," the White House said Tuesday, warning again of further sanctions. |
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Tuesday, 02 March 2010 |
 Reuters: The U.N. Security Council might take up this month the issue of Iran's nuclear program and Western proposals for a fourth round of sanctions against Tehran, Gabon's U.N. envoy said on Tuesday. |
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Tuesday, 02 March 2010 |
 AFP: China on Tuesday called for more talks to resolve the Iranian nuclear standoff, after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Moscow was ready to consider new sanctions against Tehran. |
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Tuesday, 02 March 2010 |
 Reuters: Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday there was still room for diplomacy rather than sanctions to produce a solution to the dispute with Iran over its nuclear program. |
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Tuesday, 02 March 2010 |
 Reuters: Iranian security forces have detained film director Jafar Panahi, winner of many international awards, an opposition website said on Tuesday. |
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Tuesday, 02 March 2010 |
 AFP: Russia and France launched a new era of close partnership on Monday, with the Kremlin signalling it could support targeted sanctions against Iran and France offering to sell warships to Moscow. |
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Tuesday, 02 March 2010 |
 Reuters: Iran will sign a contract with Pakisan next week to sell natural gas to its eastern neighbour, a senior Iranian official was quoted as saying on Tuesday. |
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Tuesday, 02 March 2010 |
 AP: Families of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and a 1983 bombing of U.S. Marines in Lebanon are seeking to hold Iran accountable in separate legal actions. |
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Tuesday, 02 March 2010 |
 Reuters: Smith International Inc, an oilfield services company set to be taken over by industry leader Schlumberger Ltd, said on Monday it was actively pursuing the termination of all its activities in Iran and Sudan.
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Tuesday, 02 March 2010 |
 AFP: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday it could take months for new UN sanctions against Iran, as she prepared for talks in Argentina and Brazil about the perceived Iranian nuclear threat. |
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Monday, 01 March 2010 |
 Reuters: Families of U.S. Marines killed in a 1983 bombing in Lebanon demanded ownership on Monday of a New York skyscraper that U.S. prosecutors say is owned by companies illegally funneling money to Iran.
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Monday, 01 March 2010 |
 Reuters: Iran has moved a stock of enriched uranium back underground after drawing what it needed to refine the material up to 20 percent purity, Tehran's envoy to the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Monday. |
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Monday, 01 March 2010 |
 AFP: Iran's hardline press watchdog on Monday banned the best-selling reformist daily Etemad and a weekly run by the family of opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi, ISNA news agency said. |
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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. 
