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Sunday, 03 August 2008 |
 Reuters: The falling value of the dollar is to blame for around a third of the rise in the price of oil, Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Saturday. |
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Friday, 01 August 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 01 - Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad will visit Tehran on August 9 to hold talks with senior Iranian officials.
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Friday, 01 August 2008 |
 Reuters: Norwegian oil and gas group StatoilHydro will not invest in the planned development of the Azar oil field in Iran, Financial Times reported on Friday, following pressure from the U.S. |
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Thursday, 31 July 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 31 - Iran’s acting Economy Minister said on Thursday that trade between Iran and South Africa could reach an annual level of $10 billion.
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Thursday, 31 July 2008 |
 Reuters: Thailand, the world's largest rice exporter, is in talks to sell at least 850,000 tonnes of rice to Iran and Nigeria after government stocks swelled this summer, helping dispel any lingering concern over world supplies. |
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Thursday, 31 July 2008 |
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 Guardian: Ehud Olmert's announcement that he will step down from his party's leadership may be hardly surprising given the problems generated by corruption allegations and plummeting poll ratings.
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Wednesday, 30 July 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 30 - Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday presented to the country’s Majlis (parliament) his nominations for the vacant cabinet post's of interior, economy and transport ministers. Ali Kordan, earmarked for the key portfolio of Interior Minister, has a long history in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Iran Focus has learnt.
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Tuesday, 29 July 2008 |
 AP: Iran's president on Tuesday blamed the U.S. and other "big powers" for nuclear proliferation, AIDS and other global ills, and accused them of exploiting the U.N. and other organizations for their own gain and the developing world's loss. |
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Tuesday, 29 July 2008 |
 Reuters: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has appointed Sergei Kislyak, a deputy Foreign Minister who represents Moscow in nuclear talks with Iran, as Russia's new ambassador to the United States. |
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Tuesday, 29 July 2008 |
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 The Times: The commanding officer of the frigate involved in the Iranian hostage drama, when 15 sailors and Marines were captured by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, has been removed from his post.
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Tuesday, 29 July 2008 |
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 The Sun: The captain of the Royal Navy warship that lost 15 hostages to Iran has been fired.
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Tuesday, 29 July 2008 |
 AFP: Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has urged his US counterpart Robert Gates to keep all options open in dealing with Iran's nuclear programme, his ministry said on Tuesday. |
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Monday, 28 July 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran's central bank sees no need to change the country's managed floating exchange rate policy, media reported on Monday, after a minister said the government was studying strengthening the rial against the dollar. |
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Monday, 28 July 2008 |
 Reuters: Indian refiner Reliance Industries has resumed fuel supplies to Iran from July after halting it in the last quarter of 2007 over credit issues, four trade sources familiar with the deal said. |
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Monday, 28 July 2008 |
 AP: Oil prices rebounded Monday in Asia on comments by Iran's president suggesting a significant increase in the country's nuclear program, but worries about the faltering U.S. economy and crude demand continued to weigh on futures. |
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Sunday, 27 July 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran is currently exporting 2.5 million barrels of oil per day (bpd), Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari was quoted as saying on Sunday. |
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Sunday, 27 July 2008 |
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Reuters: Iran's OPEC governor said world oil prices could reach as high as $500 (251 pounds) per barrel in a few years' time if the dollar falls further and political tension worsens, an Iranian weekly said. |
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Saturday, 26 July 2008 |
 AFP: US television network NBC said Friday it will broadcast an interview with Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from Tehran, as the country faces a deadline to bow to demands to halt its nuclear program. |
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Saturday, 26 July 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran is not expected to receive an advanced Russian-made anti-aircraft system this year, the Pentagon said on Friday, an assessment at odds with a view expressed by Israeli officials earlier this week. |
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Friday, 25 July 2008 |
 Daily Telegraph: For an organisation that prides itself on being a well-run administrative machine, the leadership of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards is having a rather testing time. It’s not just last Saturday’s mysterious explosion in a suburb of Tehran that killed 15 people that is causing the leadership sleepless nights, although the nationwide news black-out imposed immediately afterwards does suggest the Revolutionary Guards, the storm troops of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, are rattled. |
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Friday, 25 July 2008 |
 Daily Telegraph: Iran's Revolutionary Guards have launched an urgent inquiry after a mysterious explosion wrecked a military convoy in Tehran, killing at least fifteen people and injuring scores more. |
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Rome, Jul. 24 - Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi received strong backing at the Italian Parliament on Wednesday, in a move which drew quick rebuke from Tehran. On the second day of her visit at the invitation of a number of members of the Italian Parliament and the Friends of a Free Iran group in that country, Rajavi addressed a meeting of dozens of parliamentarians.
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 |
 New York Sun: As Senator Obama utters some of his toughest comments on Iran to date while visiting Israel, saying all options must be on the table in addition to "tough diplomacy," Tehran is preparing to fend off air attacks against its facilities by acquiring antiair missiles from Russia. |
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008 |
 AFP: Egypt has closed down an Iranian television channel's Cairo bureau, with the channel saying it was targeted over a controversial a film about former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat that has shaken Iran-Egypt relations. |
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran is set to receive an advanced Russian-made anti-aircraft system by year-end that could help fend off any preemptive strikes against its nuclear facilities, senior Israeli defence sources said on Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran will shut a 180,000 barrels per day (bpd) crude unit at its largest refinery in Abadan sometime in end-October for routine maintenance, a source from National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) said on Wednesday. |
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 |
 AFP: AFP's deputy bureau chief in Tehran, Stuart Williams, was told Monday by Iranian authorities that he must leave the Islamic republic within days. |
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 |
 Reuters: China's crude oil imports from Iran in June halved from a year ago to its lowest monthly level in 18 months, contributing to the overhang of crude stored offshore in Iran, official customs data showed on Tuesday. |
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 |
 AFP: Iran, the number two oil producer in OPEC, reaffirmed on Tuesday that it was against any hike in the cartel's output quota despite continued high crude prices. |
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Monday, 21 July 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 21 - Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has appointed Hassan Qashqavi as the new spokesman of his ministry, state television reported.
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