|
Sunday, 23 November 2008 |
 AP: The foremen bark out instructions in broken Spanish, saying "aqui" and "mas" as they direct crews to lay water pipes and smooth out cement. But on their lunch break, they switch into Farsi — the language of Iran. |
|
|
Sunday, 23 November 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran has executed an Iranian businessman convicted of spying on the military for the Islamic Republic's arch foe Israel, the judiciary said on Saturday. |
|
|
Sunday, 23 November 2008 |
 AP: An Iranian detained by U.S. forces at the Baghdad airport has been released, the Iraqi government said Saturday. |
|
|
Saturday, 22 November 2008 |
 Reuters: Western nations claimed a success on Friday when a U.N. General Assembly resolution condemning human rights violations in Iran passed through a key committee more easily than in the past. |
|
|
Saturday, 22 November 2008 |
 AP: An Iranian judiciary spokesman says a man convicted of spying for Israel has been hanged. |
|
|
Saturday, 22 November 2008 |
 AFP: European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said Friday he was "worried" by an international watchdog's report that Iran is not cooperating with calls to stop its sensitive nuclear work. |
|
|
Friday, 21 November 2008 |
 AP: Britain's foreign policy chief said Friday that Iran continues to pose the most serious threat to the world, warning that Tehran's suspected pursuit of nuclear weapons risks an arms race across the Middle East. |
|
|
Friday, 21 November 2008 |
 Reuters: France said on Friday the latest U.N. report on Iran's nuclear programme reinforced concerns that it was trying to develop weaponry, and urged it to halt sensitive nuclear work. |
|
|
Friday, 21 November 2008 |
 Reuters: Somali pirates have set demands for releasing a Hong Kong-flagged ship that was chartered by an Iranian company, the Iranian shipping firm said on Friday, without disclosing what they were. |
|
|
Friday, 21 November 2008 |
 AP: The State Department has renewed an appeal to Iran for information about a former FBI agent, Floridian Robert Levinson, who went missing in Iranian territory 20 months ago. |
|
|
Friday, 21 November 2008 |
 Reuters: The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei should report on Iran's nuclear programme neutrally and with fairness, an influential cleric said on Friday after this week's report on Iran's atomic work. |
|
|
Friday, 21 November 2008 |
 Daily Telegraph: A millionaire Iranian businessman faces jail for "mutilating" a number of priceless rare books, some almost 500 years old, to improve his own collection. |
|
|
Friday, 21 November 2008 |
 Reuters: European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana, who leads nuclear negotiations with Iran on behalf of major powers, said on Friday he hoped an Obama administration would be more engaged in the talks. |
|
|
Friday, 21 November 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran rejected Friday U.S. reports it had enriched enough uranium to make an atom bomb, saying this would require steps it had ruled out like ejecting U.N. inspectors and leaving the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). |
|
|
Thursday, 20 November 2008 |
|
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 20 - The following is the full text of the most recent report by the International Atomic Energy Agency's director-general on the level of Iranian cooperation over its suspected nuclear weapons program.
|
|
|
Thursday, 20 November 2008 |
 Reuters: The UK government accused Iran on Thursday of failing to cooperate with a United Nations watchdog and said this increased its concerns over Tehran's nuclear programme. |
|
|
Thursday, 20 November 2008 |
|
 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.
|
|
|
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. |
|
|
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. |
|
|
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. |
|
|
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. |
|
|
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. |
|
|
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. |
|
|
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. |
|
|
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. |
|
|
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. |
|
|
Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
|
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. |
|
|
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. |
|
Sunday Times: Mounting fears that the United States will do nothing to prevent Iran becoming a nuclear power will be outlined by Ehud Olmert, Israel’s prime minister, when he meets President George W Bush in Washington tomorrow. 
