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Monday, 24 November 2008 |
 AFP: Foreign Secretary David Miliband will Monday urge Arab leaders to clearly state their opposition to a nuclear-armed Iran and to engage more fully with the Middle East peace process. |
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Monday, 24 November 2008 |
 AFP: Iran believes the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries cartel should further slash output in the face of falling crude oil prices, a newspaper reported on Monday. |
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Monday, 24 November 2008 |
 AP: The chief U.S. delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday that the change in administrations in Washington would be a good opportunity for Iran to enter new negotiations to end its uranium enrichment program. |
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Sunday, 23 November 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran could live with an oil price as low as $5 per barrel, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying on Sunday, in comments at odds with the views of the IMF and economic analysts. |
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Sunday, 23 November 2008 |
 CNN: Iran's navy is planning to launch two new ships and a submarine later this week, the commander of the navy announced Sunday. |
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Sunday, 23 November 2008 |
 AP: The foremen bark out instructions in broken Spanish, saying "aqui" and "mas" as they direct crews to lay water pipes and smooth out cement. But on their lunch break, they switch into Farsi — the language of Iran. |
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Sunday, 23 November 2008 |
 AFP: US President George W. Bush and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed Saturday on the need for their countries to keep cooperating on Iran after Barack Obama takes office, the White House said. |
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Friday, 21 November 2008 |
 Reuters: Somali pirates have set demands for releasing a Hong Kong-flagged ship that was chartered by an Iranian company, the Iranian shipping firm said on Friday, without disclosing what they were. |
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Friday, 21 November 2008 |
 AP: The State Department has renewed an appeal to Iran for information about a former FBI agent, Floridian Robert Levinson, who went missing in Iranian territory 20 months ago. |
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Friday, 21 November 2008 |
 Daily Telegraph: A millionaire Iranian businessman faces jail for "mutilating" a number of priceless rare books, some almost 500 years old, to improve his own collection. |
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Friday, 21 November 2008 |
 Reuters: European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana, who leads nuclear negotiations with Iran on behalf of major powers, said on Friday he hoped an Obama administration would be more engaged in the talks. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
 AFP: Iran has blocked access to more than five million Internet sites, whose content is mostly perceived as immoral and anti-social, a judiciary official was quoted as saying on Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
 Reuters: Iranian banks are operating in the Gulf financial hub of Dubai despite U.N. sanctions and authorities should keep a close eye on them, a U.S. official involved in tracking suspicious financial activity said on Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
 Reuters: An Iranian shipping firm said on Wednesday it was trying to contact a Hong Kong-flagged ship carrying grain to Iran that it had chartered and that had been hijacked by Somali pirates. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
 Washington Post: A close aide to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was narrowly approved as Iran's new interior minister by parliament Tuesday. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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The Times: Somali pirates struck again yesterday, seizing an Iranian cargo ship holding 30,000 tonnes of grain, as the world’s governments and navies pronounced themselves powerless against this new threat to global trade. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
 New York Times: Two weeks after Parliament dismissed the interior minister in a scandal over his credentials, deputies voted on Tuesday to confirm President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s nominee to replace him. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
 Los Angeles Times: Though Esha Momeni is out on bail, her father says authorities have seized her passport. Momeni, who was researching her master's thesis in Iran, faces charges of undermining national security. |
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran is ready to set up a joint firm with Russia and Qatar but has no plans to export Iranian gas to Qatari plants so that it could be turned into liquefied natural gas (LNG), IRNA news agency reported on Tuesday. |
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
 AFP: The Iranian parliament on Tuesday approved President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's nominee as interior minister by a thin margin, two weeks after it sacked his predecessor for lying about his credentials. |
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: London, Nov. 18 - Iran and Turkey on Monday signed an accord reinforcing agreements to develop Iranian gas fields and on the transit of Iranian gas to Europe, the official news agency IRNA reported.
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran's parliament narrowly approved President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's choice for interior minister on Tuesday, after the previous minister was sacked in a vote by lawmakers over a fake university degree. |
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 18 – Iran has imported some 630,000 tons of rice, worth 271 million dollars, in the first seven months of the Persian calendar year.
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 18 – Turkey is considering to carry out a joint investment with Iran in the South Pars gas field, Iranian state media reported.
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 18 – Turkey has asked Iran to increase its export of natural gas to its north-western neighbour by up to 80 percent, Iranian state media reported.
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
 AFP: Federal prosecutors on Monday indicted two men on charges of illegally trading with Iran since 2002, the US Department of Justice reported. |
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran denied Monday a report it had detained 10 spies who had entered the Islamic Republic illegally from neighboring Pakistan. |
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
 AFP: Three Kuwaiti Islamist MPs said on Sunday they will file a request to grill the prime minister for allowing a prominent Iranian Shiite cleric to enter the Gulf state despite a legal ban. |
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
 AFP: Iranian MPs denounced "the crisis in Gaza" and asked Islamic organisations to respond to "cries" from Gaza's people, Iran's labour news agency ILNA reported on Sunday. |
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Sunday, 16 November 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran has converted financial reserves into gold to avoid future problems, an adviser to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in comments published on Saturday, after the price of oil fell more than 60 percent from a peak in July. |
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