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Saturday, 30 August 2008 |
 AFP: Bolivia's leftwing president, Evo Morales, left Friday on a trip to Libya and Iran to reinforce new diplomatic ties made with those two countries, officials said. |
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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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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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Friday, 29 August 2008 |
 Reuters: Iraq's once formidable Mehdi Army appears to be bowing to orders to lay down arms, but it is yet unclear if Shi'ite fighters are preparing another offensive with Iranian help, a U.S. intelligence official said. |
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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 |
 AP: A senior official in Nouri al-Maliki's government was in custody Thursday suspected of ties to Iranian-backed Shiite militias and plotting a June bombing that killed 10 people, including four Americans, Iraqi authorities said. |
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Thursday, 28 August 2008 |
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 Washington Times: A European-based Iranian exile group reports that there are major divisions within the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the Islamic shock troops that the U.S. government has linked to international terrorism.
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Thursday, 28 August 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 28 – Iranian authorities hanged five people, including a woman, in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, state media reported on Thursday.
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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 |
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 The Scotsman: The number of Iranians facing execution for crimes they committed as children has reached "crisis levels", a human rights organisation warned yesterday.
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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: The acrimony between Russia and the West stirred by the Georgia conflict complicates any effort to tighten U.N. sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program. |
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Wednesday, 27 August 2008 |
 AP: A former security adviser to Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said in comments published Tuesday that he had quit his job so he can freely speak about what he called the danger Iran poses in the Middle East. |
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Wednesday, 27 August 2008 |
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 BBC: Human rights organisations have condemned the execution of another juvenile offender in Iran on Tuesday.
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Wednesday, 27 August 2008 |
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 Los Angeles Times: The Lebanese Shiite militia, linked to deadly attacks in Argentina in the 1990s, may be taking advantage of Chavez's ties with its ally Iran, terrorism experts say.
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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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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. 
