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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Ankara, Aug. 14 - Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Istanbul on Thursday to hold talks with senior Turkish officials.
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
 Reuters: Asia can provide the finance Iran needs to develop its oil and gas reserves, the world's second largest, limiting the impact of U.S. sanctions and pressure, a top Iranian oil official said on Thursday. |
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
 Reuters: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad launched a fresh verbal attack on Israel on Wednesday on the eve of a visit to Israel's close ally Turkey, saying Western countries should not support the Jewish state. |
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
 New York Times: There are some things, Iran’s Parliament has decided, that a public official should simply not be allowed to say — especially in reference to Israel. |
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
 AP: Iran's new interior minister has raised an uproar among lawmakers and Iranian media over an apparently fake claim that he holds an honorary doctorate from Britain's Oxford University. To back his case, he's shown off a degree certificate riddled with spelling and grammar mistakes. |
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
 Reuters: An influential Iranian cleric harshly criticized President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for failing to pursue a policy of privatization to overhaul the lumbering economy, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
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 The Guardian: When sceptical MPs questioned the eligibility of Ali Kordan to be Iran's interior minister, he believed he had the perfect riposte; a law degree obtained from one of the world's most elite institutions, the University of Oxford.
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
 AFP: The United States is at present opposed to any Israeli military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said on Wednesday. |
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 12 - Iran may drastically reform its currency by removing three zeroes off the Rial to combat the inflation rate which currently stands at more than 26 percent.
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 |
 Bloomberg: Russia's widening military campaign in Georgia may end up threatening the U.S. strategic aims of preventing Iran from building a nuclear bomb and securing Central Asian energy supplies for Europe. |
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Monday, 11 August 2008 |
 AFP: Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani said on Monday Iran is no friends of the Israelis, reacting to remarks to the contrary by an aide of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Fars news agency reported. |
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Monday, 11 August 2008 |
 Reuters: Rising OPEC output has cut the group's spare capacity and left the oil market vulnerable to any surprise supply disruptions, Iran's OPEC governor said on Sunday. |
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Sunday, 10 August 2008 |
 AFP: Iran could face action from the IOC if it deliberately pulled out of the Olympic men's 100m breaststroke heats because an Israeli was also racing, Olympic officials said Sunday. |
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Sunday, 10 August 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran and Algeria are expected to discuss the formation of an OPEC-style gas group during a visit by Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to Tehran, Iran's ambassador to Algeria said in remarks published on Sunday. |
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Sunday, 10 August 2008 |
 AFP: Venezuela and Iran are to loan Bolivia 225 million dollars to create a state cement company for the construction of roads and houses, the deputy minister for small and medium business, Eduardo Peinado, said Saturday. |
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Thursday, 07 August 2008 |
 AFP: A senior Gulf official on Thursday slammed an Iranian deputy minister for questioning the legitimacy of pro-Western Arab monarchies in the region, saying such remarks can only fuel tensions. |
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Thursday, 07 August 2008 |
 Reuters: Heavy rain and flooding has killed three people and injured 80 in northwest Iran near the border with Turkey, the state broadcaster reported on Thursday. |
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Thursday, 07 August 2008 |
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Reuters: Iran's annual inflation was 26.1 percent in the year to July, newspapers said on Thursday, a slight dip from the 26.4 percent reported for the year to June. |
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Thursday, 07 August 2008 |
 AFP: Despite Egypt-Iran tensions, the Shiite-dominated Islamic republic has made an unprecedented request for Cairo's Al-Azhar University, Sunni Islam's highest seat of learning, to open a branch in Tehran. |
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Thursday, 07 August 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 07 – Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has cancelled his visit to the country’s central province of Markazi.
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Wednesday, 06 August 2008 |
 Reuters: European Union president France called on Iran on Wednesday to release immediately two Iranian doctors who have been detained by Tehran for more than a month. |
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Wednesday, 06 August 2008 |
 Reuters: European Union exports to Iran are on the rise again after a three-year decline, despite United Nations sanctions over Tehran's nuclear program, figures from the EU's statistics office Eurostat show. |
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Wednesday, 06 August 2008 |
 Reuters: Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday called on German firms to show some sensitivity in their dealings with Iran, following Israel's criticism of a German company's gas plant deal. |
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Wednesday, 06 August 2008 |
 Reuters: The global oil market is oversupplied but stronger winter demand should absorb the extra barrels later in the year, Iran's OPEC Governor said on Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 06 August 2008 |
 AP: Kuwait's foreign minister says Iran's renewed threats to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf amount to a "punishment" of its Arab neighbors. |
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Wednesday, 06 August 2008 |
 Wall Street Journal: Iran's nuclear program is becoming an increasingly important issue in the race for Israel's premiership, though the campaign started in earnest only last week. |
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Wednesday, 06 August 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran's first Olympic basketball campaign for 60 years has been tinged by tragedy after one of their players was killed in a car accident last year. |
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Tuesday, 05 August 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran risks going the same way as Saddam Hussein's Iraq in its confrontation with the West and is too weak to meet the challenges it faces alone, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Tuesday. |
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Tuesday, 05 August 2008 |
 Reuters: Any attempt by Tehran to close the Strait of Hormuz would not be in Iran's interest but prove self-defeating to the country's oil-dependent economy, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday. |
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Tuesday, 05 August 2008 |
 AFP: Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi on Tuesday warned "arrogant" Iran that it faces military humiliation on the scale of Iraq for its refusal to respond to western powers over a nuclear impasse. |
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