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Thursday, 03 July 2008 |
 Reuters: The U.S. ambassador to Israel played down speculation on Thursday that an attack by either country on Iranian nuclear sites was imminent, saying the allies agreed sanctions should run their course. |
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Thursday, 03 July 2008 |
 AFP: Iran said on Thursday that it has seized four Saudi fishing vessels crewed by Indian nationals in territorial waters near its first nuclear power plant, the Fars news agency reported. |
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Thursday, 03 July 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran's softer tone towards an offer of nuclear incentives made by world powers may be a bid to buy time rather than a shift to accept a key demand to halt nuclear work, analysts and diplomats said. |
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Thursday, 03 July 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran's annual inflation rose to 26.4 percent in June, an Iranian news agency cited central bank figures as showing on Thursday, as consumer prices continued to climb steadily in the world's fourth-largest oil exporter. |
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Thursday, 03 July 2008 |
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 New York Times: President Bush said Wednesday that the United States still strongly preferred diplomacy as it confronts rising tensions and uncertainty over Iran, but that, as always, “all options are on the table.”
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Thursday, 03 July 2008 |
 AFP: US President George W. Bush said Wednesday that "military options remain on the table" in nuclear disputes with North Korea and Iran but underlined that he preferred a diplomatic resolution. |
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Thursday, 03 July 2008 |
 Reuters: European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said on Wednesday he was still waiting for a formal answer from Iran to incentives offered by major powers aimed at solving the dispute over its nuclear programme. |
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
 Reuters: U.S. President George W. Bush said on Wednesday that diplomacy was the first option to address Iran's nuclear program, which he is concerned could be used to build a nuclear weapon, but he repeated that all options were on the table. |
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
 AFP: Opening up a third front would pose a challenge for the US military already deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, a top US military chief said Wednesday amid concerns Israel may attack Iran. |
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
 Reuters: Oil producing nations are suffering in the same way as oil consumers due to the weak U.S. dollar and increases in production costs and want to work with them to find a stable oil price, Iran said on Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran said on Wednesday it was ready to consider a U.S. diplomatic presence in Tehran and called for direct flights between the two countries, nearly three decades after Washington severed ties with Iran. |
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
 Reuters: The European Union's decision to impose new sanctions on Iran could exacerbate tensions over Tehran's nuclear programme, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview published on Thursday. |
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
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 New York Times: Iranian officials on Tuesday continued their long history of befuddling Western diplomats, as two top officials sounded conciliatory notes about the prospects of eventually breaching the impasse between the West and Tehran over the country’s nuclear ambitions.
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
 AP: Hezbollah instructors trained Shiite militiamen at remote camps in southern Iraq until three months ago when they slipped across the border to Iran — presumably to continue instruction on Iranian soil, according to two Shiite lawmakers and a top army officer. |
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Tuesday, 01 July 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 26 – At least 25 people were killed on Tuesday when a bus veered off a bridge in central Iran.
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Tuesday, 01 July 2008 |
 Reuters: The United States, marking the 40th anniversary of the fraying nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), said on Tuesday it was concerned that countries like Iran had "violated" the pact. |
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Tuesday, 01 July 2008 |
 AFP: Iran's conservative-controlled parliament warned on Tuesday it would reduce nuclear cooperation if any new sanctions were imposed over the country's atomic drive, the Fars news agency reported. |
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Tuesday, 01 July 2008 |
 AFP: Iran's judiciary on Tuesday ordered the arrest of the director of a leading reformist newspaper over an article attacking President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his remarks on the Shiites' "hidden imam." |
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Tuesday, 01 July 2008 |
 Bloomberg: The U.S. State Department dismissed an ABC News report that Israel is increasingly likely to attack Iranian nuclear facilities this year. |
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Tuesday, 01 July 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran's oil minister said the market was over-supplied with crude and OPEC could not do anything to reduce prices, the website of the country's Oil Ministry reported on Tuesday. |
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Tuesday, 01 July 2008 |
 Reuters: OPEC could not replace lost Iranian output should Tehran carry out its threat to stop oil exports if attacked, OPEC President Chakib Khelil said on Tuesday. |
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Tuesday, 01 July 2008 |
 AFP: Democratic White House contender Barack Obama thinks a nuclear-armed Iran is the world's biggest threat and that Europe should adopt tougher sanctions against Tehran, a top aide of his told the Financial Times of London. |
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Tuesday, 01 July 2008 |
 Bloomberg: Crude oil rose in New York on concern that Iran, the second-largest producer in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, may face military attacks over its nuclear program, disrupting Middle East supplies. |
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Tuesday, 01 July 2008 |
 Reuters: The death toll in a building collapse in Tehran has risen to 11 people, Iran's ISNA news agency said on Tuesday, a day after the capital's fire department said three bodies had been pulled out of the rubble. |
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Tuesday, 01 July 2008 |
 New York Times: The White House’s effort to challenge Iran’s nuclear ambitions has been hobbled by “four and a half years of failed diplomacy.” |
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Tuesday, 01 July 2008 |
 Reuters: A senior adviser to Iran's top authority said "provocative" speeches could damage the country's nuclear cause in its row with the West, a thinly veiled criticism of outspoken President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. |
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Monday, 30 June 2008 |
 AFP: The commander of the US navy's Fifth Fleet warned on Monday that the United States will not allow Iran to shut the Strait of Hormuz, the Gulf sea lane through which much of the world's oil is supplied. |
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Monday, 30 June 2008 |
 Reuters: Kuwait is developing precautionary plans to ensure oil exports in case Iran closes a vital oil route in the world's largest oil exporting region, a top oil official told state news agency KUNA on Monday. |
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Reuters: Iranian banks could face further sanctions unless Tehran complies with international demands over its disputed nuclear programme, Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Kimmitt was quoted as saying on Thursday. 
