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Thursday, 04 September 2008 |
 Bloomberg: French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Iran is taking a "major risk" in developing a nuclear program that may provoke an attack by Israel. |
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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 |
 Reuters: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Wednesday any attack on Iran would be a disaster and pledged to help find a peaceful solution to the nuclear dispute between the West and Tehran. |
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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 |
 UPI: Russian nuclear experts are in Iran monitoring construction of the Middle East nation's first nuclear power plant. |
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Tuesday, 02 September 2008 |
 UPI: U.S. Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden never said Israel would have to accept Iran obtaining nuclear weapons, his spokesman said Monday. |
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Saturday, 30 August 2008 |
 Washington Post: Iran is using 4,000 centrifuges to enrich uranium and plans to install an additional 3,000 of the devices, Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Reza Sheikh Attar said Thursday in an interview on Iranian state television. |
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Saturday, 30 August 2008 |
 AP: Iran has increased the number of operating centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant to 4,000, a top official said Friday, pushing ahead with the nuclear program despite threats of new U.N. sanctions. |
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Friday, 29 August 2008 |
 AP: Iran's official IRNA news agency says the government now has nearly 4,000 centrifuges operating in its uranium enrichment plant. |
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
 Reuters: U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Monday the world must increase pressure on Iran to rein in its nuclear program and avoid a situation where Israel feels cornered. |
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
 AP: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama pledged Monday that he would step up diplomatic pressure to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons before Israel feels that "its back is against the wall" and might take military action. |
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Monday, 25 August 2008 |
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New York Sun: On the heels of a breakdown in talks intended by the West to defuse the Iranian nuclear crisis, Iran is planning to build a new nuclear power facility. |
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Monday, 25 August 2008 |
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 AP: Iran's official news agency says the country has begun designing its second light-water nuclear power plant, a 360-megawatt facility in the southwest.
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Sunday, 24 August 2008 |
 AFP: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday praised the country's government for resisting international pressure on the Islamic republic to halt its controversial nuclear programme. |
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran described talks with a top U.N. inspector over its nuclear program -- which the West fears is a cover to build atomic bombs -- as "positive", the official IRNA news agency reported on Wednesday. |
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Tuesday, 19 August 2008 |
 AFP: Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation on Tuesday tasked six local companies to hunt for potential sites for new nuclear power plants, the official news agency IRNA reported. |
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Tuesday, 19 August 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 19 – A senior official from the United Nations nuclear watchdog is holding talks with Iranian officials in Tehran.
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Saturday, 16 August 2008 |
 AP: Iran should not give Western nations the justification to "drag the region down a dangerous slope" by its lack of transparency and flexibility in the conflict over its nuclear program, Egypt's presidential spokesman said Saturday. |
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 14 - Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki held telephone conversations on Wednesday with his Chinese, German, and Russian counterparts.
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
 AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday sounded an upbeat note on talks with Western powers on Tehran's contested nuclear programme, saying they were going in the "right direction." |
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Monday, 11 August 2008 |
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Reuters: Iran's chief atomic negotiator and the man representing six world powers discussed Tehran's nuclear programme in telephone talks on Monday but an EU official said there was no change in the dispute. |
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Sunday, 10 August 2008 |
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Reuters: Iran will not back down on its nuclear stance despite the threat of tighter sanctions, Iranian media quoted a government spokesman as saying on Sunday. |
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Sunday, 10 August 2008 |
 AP: Iran's official news agency is quoting a government spokesman as saying the country is "ready to confront sanctions" over its disputed nuclear program. |
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Sunday, 10 August 2008 |
 Reuters: U.S.-allied Kuwait urged Iran on Saturday to resolve tensions with the West over its nuclear programme, saying the dispute undermined the interests of Gulf states with which it shares a vital oil export route. |
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Sunday, 10 August 2008 |
 AFP: Iran's government has ordered the state oil company to deposit oil revenues only in selected banks in a bid to dodge toughening sanctions over its nuclear drive, local media reported on Saturday. |
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Saturday, 09 August 2008 |
 AP: The European Union tightened trade sanctions against Iran Friday for defying a long-standing international demand to freeze uranium enrichment. |
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Saturday, 09 August 2008 |
 Reuters: Britain, France, Germany and the United States are considering imposing additional sanctions on Iran over its nuclear work, possibly in the energy, reinsurance or financial sectors, a senior British official said on Friday. |
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Friday, 08 August 2008 |
 AFP: European Union nations have introduced fresh sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme, including restrictions on public loans and tougher cargo inspections, the EU presidency announced Friday. |
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Friday, 08 August 2008 |
 AP: Two Louisiana businessmen who plotted to defy a U.S. trade embargo by exporting engineering software to Iran avoided prison Thursday when a federal judge ordered them to serve several months in a halfway house. |
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Friday, 08 August 2008 |
 Bloomberg: European governments imposed new financial sanctions on Iran, inching beyond measures laid down in a United Nations resolution that punishes Iran's pursuit of a nuclear capability. |
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Friday, 08 August 2008 |
 AFP: Iran said on Friday talks on its controversial nuclear drive with top UN atomic watchdog official Olli Heinonen were "positive", as EU governments imposed fresh sanctions on the Islamic republic. |
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Thursday, 07 August 2008 |
 AFP: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice threatened Iran with more sanctions Thursday after it failed to give an adequate response to the latest bid by Western powers to induce it to freeze uranium enrichment. |
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