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Thursday, 20 November 2008 |
 Wall Street Journal: United Nations investigators found "significant" traces of uranium used in reactors at the wreckage of a Syrian facility that Israel bombed last year, and Iran is ramping up production of nuclear fuel while denying investigators access, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
 AFP: Iran has blocked access to more than five million Internet sites, whose content is mostly perceived as immoral and anti-social, a judiciary official was quoted as saying on Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
 Reuters: An inquiry by the U.N. nuclear watchdog into alleged atom bomb research by Iran has degenerated into a silent standoff a few months after Tehran asserted "the matter is over," U.N. officials said on Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
 AFP: Iran is still defying UN demands to suspend uranium enrichment and not cooperating with investigations into claims that its nuclear programme has a military aspect, the UN atomic watchdog said Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
 Reuters: Iranian banks are operating in the Gulf financial hub of Dubai despite U.N. sanctions and authorities should keep a close eye on them, a U.S. official involved in tracking suspicious financial activity said on Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
 AP: The U.S. military says it has arrested an alleged senior member of the Iranian security forces suspected of funneling weapons into Iraq. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
 Reuters: An Iranian shipping firm said on Wednesday it was trying to contact a Hong Kong-flagged ship carrying grain to Iran that it had chartered and that had been hijacked by Somali pirates. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
 Washington Post: A close aide to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was narrowly approved as Iran's new interior minister by parliament Tuesday. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
 AFP: Iraqi security forces have arrested an alleged "senior" Iranian commando from the elite Revolutionary Guard's Quds Force at Baghdad International Airport, the US military said Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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 The Times: Somali pirates struck again yesterday, seizing an Iranian cargo ship holding 30,000 tonnes of grain, as the world’s governments and navies pronounced themselves powerless against this new threat to global trade.
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
 New York Times: Two weeks after Parliament dismissed the interior minister in a scandal over his credentials, deputies voted on Tuesday to confirm President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s nominee to replace him. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
 Los Angeles Times: Though Esha Momeni is out on bail, her father says authorities have seized her passport. Momeni, who was researching her master's thesis in Iran, faces charges of undermining national security. |
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran is aiming to commission its first nuclear power plant in 2009 after years of delays, the official IRNA news agency reported on Tuesday. |
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran is ready to set up a joint firm with Russia and Qatar but has no plans to export Iranian gas to Qatari plants so that it could be turned into liquefied natural gas (LNG), IRNA news agency reported on Tuesday. |
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
 Reuters: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has raised concerns about nearly 3,500 opposition Iranians living in exile in Iraq and regarded as terrorists by the Baghdad government, which wants to expel them. |
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
 AFP: The Iranian parliament on Tuesday approved President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's nominee as interior minister by a thin margin, two weeks after it sacked his predecessor for lying about his credentials. |
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: London, Nov. 18 - Iran and Turkey on Monday signed an accord reinforcing agreements to develop Iranian gas fields and on the transit of Iranian gas to Europe, the official news agency IRNA reported.
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran's parliament speaker urged Iraqi lawmakers to keep resisting a security pact with the United States, official media said Tuesday, a day after Baghdad signed an accord on U.S. troop presence in Iraq. |
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran's parliament narrowly approved President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's choice for interior minister on Tuesday, after the previous minister was sacked in a vote by lawmakers over a fake university degree. |
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 18 – Iran has imported some 630,000 tons of rice, worth 271 million dollars, in the first seven months of the Persian calendar year.
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 18 – Turkey is considering to carry out a joint investment with Iran in the South Pars gas field, Iranian state media reported.
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 18 – Turkey has asked Iran to increase its export of natural gas to its north-western neighbour by up to 80 percent, Iranian state media reported.
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
 AFP: Federal prosecutors on Monday indicted two men on charges of illegally trading with Iran since 2002, the US Department of Justice reported. |
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran denied Monday a report it had detained 10 spies who had entered the Islamic Republic illegally from neighboring Pakistan. |
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
 AFP: Three Kuwaiti Islamist MPs said on Sunday they will file a request to grill the prime minister for allowing a prominent Iranian Shiite cleric to enter the Gulf state despite a legal ban. |
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
 AFP: Iranian MPs denounced "the crisis in Gaza" and asked Islamic organisations to respond to "cries" from Gaza's people, Iran's labour news agency ILNA reported on Sunday. |
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Sunday, 16 November 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran has converted financial reserves into gold to avoid future problems, an adviser to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in comments published on Saturday, after the price of oil fell more than 60 percent from a peak in July. |
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Sunday, 16 November 2008 |
 AP: Iranian newspapers are quoting a top adviser to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying the country has converted some of its foreign currency reserves into gold. |
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New York Times: Iran has now produced roughly enough nuclear material to make, with added purification, a single atom bomb, according to nuclear experts analyzing the latest report from global atomic inspectors. 
