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Saturday, 30 August 2008 |
 AP: A retired University of Tennessee professor accused of passing secrets from his work on a U.S. Air Force contract to two foreign graduate students testified Friday that he didn't break the law because he hadn't even proven that his research worked. |
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Friday, 29 August 2008 |
 AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday blamed foreign interference as well as Tbilisi's leadership for the crisis in Georgia and called on regional powers to come to a peaceful resolution. |
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Friday, 29 August 2008 |
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 Reuters: Iran on Thursday offered to share its nuclear technology with fellow OPEC member Nigeria to help revive its dilapidated power sector, considered the biggest hurdle to economic growth in Africa's most populous country.
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Thursday, 28 August 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 28 - Iran's state media is claiming that a senior aide to hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has held a "cyber debate" with a U.S. State Department official.
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Thursday, 28 August 2008 |
 Reuters: Western nations will have to resolve the standoff over Iran's nuclear ambitions without Russia's help if they refuse to cooperate with Moscow, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. |
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Thursday, 28 August 2008 |
 Washington Post: Borrowing a familiar theme from past GOP presidential campaigns, Sen. John McCain is sharpening his efforts to portray Sen. Barack Obama as naive and inexperienced on foreign policy, rolling out an ad that accuses the Democrat of not taking Iran seriously and ridiculing his explanation for the end of the Cold War. |
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Thursday, 28 August 2008 |
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 New York Post: John McCain is charging that Barack Obama is "dangerously unprepared" to be president for suggesting that terror-sponsor Iran is not a serious threat to America.
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Thursday, 28 August 2008 |
 Reuters: NBC Universal approved an advertisement by T. Boone Pickens entitled "Iran" which questions U.S. dependence on foreign oil, after the oil tycoon complained that the network had rejected it. |
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Wednesday, 27 August 2008 |
 AFP: Republican John McCain scorched his rival Barack Obama in a new ad Wednesday, accusing him of seeing Iran as only a "tiny" threat and arguing he is dangerously unprepared to be president. |
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Wednesday, 27 August 2008 |
 AFP: The head of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, General Mohammad Ali Jafari, said on Wednesday that Israel is too vulnerable to Iran's longer-range missiles to dare launch an attack. |
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Wednesday, 27 August 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran could hit back at Israel with missiles if the Jewish state attacked it and could also rely on allies in the region to strike, the commander of the Islamic Republic's Revolutionary Guards said on Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 27 August 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 27 - Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Israel on Tuesday of creating new diseases to make money from pharmaceutical products that cure them, state media reported.
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 26 - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday appointed Brigadier General Ahmad-Reza Pourdastan as the new commander of the Islamic Republic's regular army ground forces.
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
 AP: Syria's President Bashar Assad has publicly stepped up his outreach to old ally Russia in recent days, seeking aid to build up Syrian military forces and offering Moscow help in return — in an apparent effort to exploit a new Russian-American rift. |
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
 AFP: Wracked by drought, Iran has turned to the United States for wheat for the first time in 27 years, marking a setback for Tehran's search for agricultural self-sufficiency. |
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
 AFP: Senior government officials from Iran and Nigeria opened talks on Tuesday aimed at boosting ties between the two oil producing nations. |
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
 AFP: Iran will conduct DNA identification of bodies recovered from a passenger jet that crashed after take-off from Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek, killing 65 people, Kyrgyz health ministry officials told AFP Tuesday. |
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
 Reuters: An Iranian cleric accused President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of betraying the people and called on reformers to unite to defeat him in next year's elections, according to an interview in a German newspaper. |
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
 AFP: Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani, who starred in a Hollywood movie, has left for the United States, a colleague was quoted as saying Tuesday, denying reports that she faced a travel ban. |
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Monday, 25 August 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran has launched a submarine production line to ensure its forces are equipped to maintain security in the vital oil shipping route, the Strait of Hormuz waterway, the defense minister said on Monday. |
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Monday, 25 August 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran's supreme leader has told Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to prepare for a second four-year presidential term, comments seen by some as a riposte to the president's critics before next year's election, media reported. |
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Monday, 25 August 2008 |
 Reuters: Azerbaijan's national oil company, SOCAR, said on Monday it had begun exporting Azeri Light crude to Iran to compensate for export constraints imposed by a pipeline blast in Turkey and war in Georgia. |
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Monday, 25 August 2008 |
 AFP: Iran might for the first time offer production sharing contracts to develop its Caspian Sea oil fields, in a bid to attract foreign investors to a region with high exploration costs, a report said on Monday. |
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Monday, 25 August 2008 |
 AP: Iranian state TV says the country has launched production of a domestically built submarine capable of firing missiles and torpedoes. |
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Monday, 25 August 2008 |
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AP: A passenger jet carrying 90 people, including a Kyrgyz high school sports team, crashed shortly after takeoff Sunday near the Kyrgyz capital, killing 65, government officials said. |
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Monday, 25 August 2008 |
 New York Times: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme religious leader, responded to mounting domestic criticism of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with a strong statement of support, praising his internal policies and his dogged defense of the country’s nuclear program, Iranian news media reported Sunday. |
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Sunday, 24 August 2008 |
 AP: Iran's supreme leader was quoted Sunday as praising President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for "standing up to" the West in a dispute over the country's nuclear program, amid growing domestic criticism of the president's management. |
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Sunday, 24 August 2008 |
 AFP: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against economic policies which would further fuel inflation, a press report said on Sunday. |
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Sunday, 24 August 2008 |
 Reuters: The conflict between Russia and Georgia may indirectly benefit Iran by making it more difficult for the West to reach consensus with Moscow on new U.N. sanctions, Iranian newspapers said on Sunday. |
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Sunday, 24 August 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran plans to launch a telecommunications satellite, the president said on Saturday, using missile technology the West fears is being developed to fire nuclear warheads. |
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