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Monday, 16 June 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 16 – The new members of the Iranian Majlis (Parliament) Foreign Policy and National Security Committee were appointed on Monday. The following are members of the committee:
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Monday, 16 June 2008 |
 Reuters: Egypt sees Iran "on a surge" in the Arab world, playing many political and diplomatic cards regardless of Arab interests, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said in an interview. |
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Monday, 16 June 2008 |
 AFP: Thousands of university students in an Iranian city have held a protest against the attempted sexual harassment of a female colleague by a top university official, the press reported on Monday. |
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Monday, 16 June 2008 |
 New York Sun: America's economic war against Iran is now targeting the Islamic Republic's trade routes and shipping. |
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Monday, 16 June 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran has withdrawn around $75 billion (38 billion pounds) from Europe to prevent the assets from being blocked under threatened new sanctions over Tehran's disputed nuclear ambitions, an Iranian weekly said. |
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Monday, 16 June 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran's government plans to ask parliament for $7 billion to pay for increasingly expensive fuel imports, a newspaper said on Monday, despite gasoline rationing launched by the world's fourth-largest oil producer last year. |
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Monday, 16 June 2008 |
 AFP: Countries around the world can have normal relations with Iran if the Islamic Republic redefines itself and stops meddling in the affairs of its neighbours, US Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad said in an interview Monday. |
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Sunday, 15 June 2008 |
 AP: A government-owned newspaper says Tehran's former police chief has been released from jail due to lack of evidence on "morality charges." |
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Sunday, 15 June 2008 |
 AP: A Japanese tourist kidnapped by suspected bandits while traveling in southeastern Iran last year has been released. |
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Sunday, 15 June 2008 |
 Sunday Times: A second set of secret government intelligence papers has been found on a commuter train, it was revealed last night. The Treasury files included an assessment of the weaknesses in the trade and banking systems in Iran that would-be terrorists could exploit to finance weapons of mass destruction. |
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Sunday, 15 June 2008 |
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 Independent on Sunday: Secret government documents detailing the UK's policies towards fighting global terrorist funding, drugs trafficking and money laundering have been found on a London-bound train and handed to 'The Independent on Sunday'.
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Saturday, 14 June 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran has discovered an oilfield with estimated reserves of 750 million barrels within its southwestern Jofeir oilfield, Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari said on Saturday. |
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Saturday, 14 June 2008 |
 Reuters: U.S. President George W. Bush urged European allies on Friday to unite with Washington to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. |
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Saturday, 14 June 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran, which has some of the cheapest fuel in the world, will begin selling gasoline at "international" prices in 2011, state radio said Friday. |
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Friday, 13 June 2008 |
 Reuters: U.S. President George W. Bush won reassurances from his old ally Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday that Italy will help pressure Iran over its nuclear program and take more of a frontline military role in Afghanistan. |
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Friday, 13 June 2008 |
 AFP: Iranian Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said on Thursday that the world market was saturated and that OPEC was meeting demand, official Iranian news agency IRNA reported. |
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Thursday, 12 June 2008 |
 AFP: US President George W. Bush was due to hold talks Thursday in Rome with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in the hope the Italian leader would help tighten the squeeze on Iran and step up help for war-battered Afghanistan, aides said. |
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Thursday, 12 June 2008 |
 Washington Post: A mid-level government official supportive of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's political faction was arrested Wednesday for making public accusations of corruption against several top clerics, the Iranian Fars News Agency reported. |
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Thursday, 12 June 2008 |
 AP: Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called President Bush a "wicked man" Wednesday. Addressing thousands of people in this central city, he said Bush had set out to damage Iran but failed to halt its nuclear program and would not succeed in his goal of attacking the Islamic republic. |
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 |
 AFP: US President George W. Bush was to pressure Chancellor Angela Merkel to cut Germany's business ties with Iran in talks Wednesday as he put the Iran nuclear dispute at the heart of his farewell European tour, aides said. |
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 |
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 New York Sun: With President Bush securing a new round of European sanctions on Iran's banks, he and Congress are looking to additional measures to squeeze the mullahs at the gasoline pump.
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 |
 Bloomberg: George W. Bush's administration is in its dying days and won't be able to harm Iran, the Islamic Republic's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said. |
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 |
 Reuters: A bomb was defused in front of the residence of Iraq's ambassador to Tehran on Tuesday, media said on Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran's central bank governor Tahmasb Mazaheri warned that the government's interest rate policy could further stoke inflation that already tops 25 percent, Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad reported. |
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Tuesday, 10 June 2008 |
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 BBC: Single workers at one of Iran's major state-owned companies have been told to marry by September or face being fired, Iranian newspapers have reported.
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Tuesday, 10 June 2008 |
 AFP: A major Iranian state-owned company has told its single employees to get married by September or face losing their jobs, the press reported on Tuesday. |
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Tuesday, 10 June 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran welcomes a proposal by Saudi Arabia for a meeting between oil producers and consumers, Iran's semi-official Mehr News Agency said on Tuesday, citing the Islamic Republic's OPEC governor. |
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Tuesday, 10 June 2008 |
 New York Times: When Chancellor Angela Merkel plays host to President Bush on Tuesday and Wednesday, it will be well away from the bright lights of this capital. |
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Monday, 09 June 2008 |
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Daily Telegraph: The president of Iran has ordered the country's leading banks to transfer billions of dollars of assets from Europe to the Central Bank to prevent them being frozen by international sanctions, according to Western diplomats. |
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Monday, 09 June 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran's annual inflation rate rose to more than 25 percent in May, the central bank said, highlighting a growing economic problem facing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ahead of next year's election. |
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