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Thursday, 04 September 2008 |
 AFP: French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned Iran on Thursday that its determination to press on with its controversial nuclear drive risked an Israeli strike that would be a "catastrophe." |
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Thursday, 04 September 2008 |
 Reuters: Gulf Arab stocks plunged on Thursday as weaker oil prices and tensions with Iran compounded a broad sell-off in emerging markets, sending some indexes down as much as 4 percent and erasing all the gains of 2008. |
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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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Thursday, 04 September 2008 |
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 The Guardian: Four women's rights campaigners in Iran have been sentenced to six months in jail just as activists were celebrating a rare success, having persuaded MPs to shelve a bill that would have made it easier for men to have more than one wife.
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Thursday, 04 September 2008 |
 AFP: Iran has formally invited Brazil to join OPEC, but the South American nation -- which recently discovered vast new offshore oil fields -- turned down the offer, Energy Minister Edson Lobao said Wednesday. |
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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 |
 Reuters: Iran last month invited Brazil to join oil exporters' group OPEC, Energy Minister Edison Lobao said on Wednesday, adding that his government had not yet responded to the invitation. |
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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 03 – Iranian authorities have hanged a man in Arak, central Iran, state media reported on Tuesday.
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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 |
 Reuters: The United States said on Wednesday improved relations with Libya, which Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits this week, showed how countries like Iran and North Korea could be rewarded for a change in behavior. |
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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 |
 AFP: Iran has sentenced four women's rights activists to six months in jail over articles written on feminist websites, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 |
 AFP: Iran on Wednesday defended opening new offices on a disputed Gulf island and rejected Arab monarchies' condemnation of the move as "interference", the official IRNA news agency reported. |
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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 |
 AFP: The United Arab Emirates on Wednesday dismissed an Iranian complaint of ill-treatment of its nationals, amid a renewed war of words over disputed islands in the Gulf. |
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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 |
 Reuters: Gulf Arab countries urged Iran at a meeting late on Tuesday to remove the offices it has installed on a disputed island in the strategic Gulf waterway and backed the United Arab Emirates' claim to the territories. |
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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 |
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 The Times: The price of crude oil tumbled yesterday in the futures markets as the destructive force of Hurricane Gustav dwindled.
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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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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 |
 AFP: An Iran Air flight heading to Tehran returned to the Indian city of Mumbai soon after take-off and made an emergency landing after one of its engines caught fire, an airport official said Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran is expelling the bureau chief of Al Arabiya television in Tehran after accusing the Saudi-owned network of bias, the station said on Tuesday. |
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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 |
 Reuters: The U.N. human rights office voiced concern on Tuesday at a recent rise in executions in Iran and implored the Islamic Republic to stay death sentences handed down for all convicts accused of committing crimes as minors. |
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Tuesday, 02 September 2008 |
 UPI: The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Tuesday urged Iran to not execute teens following reports that the country recently put to death two teens. |
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Tuesday, 02 September 2008 |
 AFP: The head of the Tehran bureau of pan-Arab television station Al-Arabiya said on Tuesday that Iranian officials have demanded his departure from the country. |
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Tuesday, 02 September 2008 |
 AFP: Iran on Tuesday called for the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries to discuss quota-busting by some members at its meeting in Vienna on September 9. |
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Tuesday, 02 September 2008 |
 Reuters: The Iranian air force will hold wargames during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which began in Iran on Tuesday, a military commander said. |
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Tuesday, 02 September 2008 |
 AP: Iran on Tuesday banned the Tehran bureau chief for the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya news channel and told him to leave the country as soon as possible, the network said. |
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Tuesday, 02 September 2008 |
 AFP: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad warned Tuesday that an attack by Israel on Iran would have catastrophic consequences for the entire world. |
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Tuesday, 02 September 2008 |
 UPI: A group of Jewish emigrants from Iran says members had to promise not to move to Israel before they could get permission to leave their country. |
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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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Tuesday, 02 September 2008 |
 AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told Bolivia's visiting left-wing President Evo Morales on Monday their two nations are natural allies and would boost energy ties, state media reported. |
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Tuesday, 02 September 2008 |
 Reuters: Qatar Telecommunications Co QTEL.QA said on Monday it was studying the possibility of bidding for Iran's third mobile licence as it looks to expand into new markets. |
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Wall Street Journal: As Baghdad and Washington officials try to hammer out a final agreement laying out the terms of a continued American military presence in Iraq, Iranian officials have ratcheted up pressure on their Iraqi counterparts to reject a deal. 
