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Wednesday, 05 November 2008 |
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 The 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.
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Wednesday, 05 November 2008 |
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 Washington 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.
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Wednesday, 05 November 2008 |
 Reuters: 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. |
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Wednesday, 05 November 2008 |
 AFP: 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. |
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Wednesday, 05 November 2008 |
 Reuters: 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. |
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Tuesday, 04 November 2008 |
 AFP: 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. |
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Tuesday, 04 November 2008 |
 AP: The commander of NATO's naval forces says Iranian threats to close a strategic Persian Gulf waterway are imaginary. |
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Tuesday, 04 November 2008 |
 Reuters: 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. |
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Tuesday, 04 November 2008 |
 Washington 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. |
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Tuesday, 04 November 2008 |
 Washington 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. |
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Tuesday, 04 November 2008 |
 AFP: 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. |
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Tuesday, 04 November 2008 |
 AFP: 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. |
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Monday, 03 November 2008 |
 Reuters: 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." |
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Monday, 03 November 2008 |
 AFP: 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. |
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Monday, 03 November 2008 |
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 BBC: The jury in the Old Bailey trial of an army interpreter accused of spying for Iran is considering its verdict.
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Monday, 03 November 2008 |
 AP: 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. |
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Monday, 03 November 2008 |
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AFP: 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. |
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Monday, 03 November 2008 |
 Reuters: 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. |
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Monday, 03 November 2008 |
 AFP: 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. |
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Sunday, 02 November 2008 |
 AP: Iran's appeals court has upheld an 11-year jail sentence against a prominent Kurdish human rights activist, his lawyer said Saturday. |
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Sunday, 02 November 2008 |
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Sunday 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. |
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Sunday, 02 November 2008 |
 Reuters: 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. |
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Sunday, 02 November 2008 |
 Reuters: 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. |
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Saturday, 01 November 2008 |
 AFP: 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. |
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Saturday, 01 November 2008 |
 AFP: 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. |
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Saturday, 01 November 2008 |
 Wall 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. |
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Saturday, 01 November 2008 |
 AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday slammed a deadly US raid on a Syrian village as a "savage act", state news agency IRNA said. |
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Friday, 31 October 2008 |
 AFP: 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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Reuters: 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. 
