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Tuesday, 08 July 2008 |
 Reuters: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashed out at the Group of Eight wealthy nations in a letter to a newspaper on Tuesday, saying their policies would "accelerate them along the road to a precipice," and reiterated he would not accept demands to halt uranium enrichment. |
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Tuesday, 08 July 2008 |
 AFP: Oil prices fell sharply Monday in a move some traders attributed to an ease in geopolitical tensions related to Iran's nuclear program and a strengthening US dollar. |
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Tuesday, 08 July 2008 |
 Reuters: Egypt summoned a senior Iranian diplomat in Cairo on Monday over an Iranian film on the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, an Egyptian foreign ministry official and state media said. |
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Monday, 07 July 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 07 - Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps launched large-scale war-games on Monday.
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Monday, 07 July 2008 |
 Reuters: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Monday that harsh U.S. rhetoric toward Iran appeared to be contributing to the surge in oil prices and that a calmer approach might help soothe the markets. |
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Monday, 07 July 2008 |
 Reuters: The U.S. Navy said on Monday it was carrying out an exercise in the Gulf, days after vowing that Iran will not be allowed to block the waterway which carries crude from the world's largest oil-exporting region. |
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Monday, 07 July 2008 |
 Reuters: Oil was steady around $144 a barrel on Monday, holding near last week's record high after Iran reasserted its right to pursue uranium enrichment, keeping alive political tensions in the Middle East and adding to worries about oil supplies. |
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Monday, 07 July 2008 |
 AFP: Oil prices eased in Asian trading Monday after Iran offered over the weekend to negotiate on its nuclear drive, dealers said. |
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Sunday, 06 July 2008 |
 Bloomberg: Iran will close the Strait of Hormuz, through which the bulk of Middle East oil is shipped, if the country is attacked, state-run Fars news agency reported, citing a military commander. |
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Sunday, 06 July 2008 |
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 Sunday Times: Hundreds of endangered monkeys are being taken from the African bush and sent to a “secretive” laboratory in Iran for scientific experiments.
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Saturday, 05 July 2008 |
 AFP: Iran's inflation rate, which has provoked intense criticism of the government, topped 26 percent in June, according to a central bank statement published in the press on Saturday. |
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Friday, 04 July 2008 |
 Bloomberg: Iran will view an attack on its nuclear facilities as an act of war and will respond, the head of the country's Revolutionary Guard Corps said. |
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Friday, 04 July 2008 |
 AFP: India expects to sign a deal "by next month" on a pipeline that will transport gas across the subcontinent from Iran, Indian oil minister Murli Deora told AFP on Thursday. |
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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 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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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
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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 |
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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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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 |
 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 |
 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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