AFP: Russia has assured Iran it will honour a deal to supply the Islamic Republic with advanced S-300 air-defence missiles, Tehran's ambassador to Moscow said Friday. Russia has assured Iran on missile delivery: diplomat
AFP: Russia has assured Iran it will honour a deal to supply the Islamic Republic with advanced S-300 air-defence missiles, Tehran's ambassador to Moscow said Friday. U.N. nuclear agency calls Iran inquiry dead end
New York Times: The director general of the United Nations nuclear watchdog declared in unusually blunt language on Thursday that Iran had stonewalled investigators about evidence that the country had worked on nuclear weapons design, and that his efforts to reveal the truth had “effectively reached a dead end.” World powers seek Iran nuclear censure
AFP: World powers united on Friday to seek a new UN censure of Iran's nuclear programme and demand that it halt construction of uranium enrichment site kept secret until recently. India’s ONGC eyeing stake in Iran gas field-report
Reuters: Indian state explorer Oil and Natural Gas Corp is seeking a 20-25 percent stake in a $7.5 billion phase-12 project of Iran's South Pars gas field, media reports said on Friday. Mohamed ElBaradei tells Atomic Energy Agency he has hit dead end with Iran
The Times: The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said yesterday that he had reached a “dead end” in his investigation into Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons programme. Iranian militiamen try to cow opposition figure
New York Times: About 60 members of the hard-line Basij militia force demonstrated Thursday outside a house in Qum, Iran, where the opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi was staying, in an effort to intimidate him before a large opposition rally planned for next month. Only one regime matches Irans for vindictiveness: Adolf Hitler’s
The Times: Since 1901 the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 90 times to 120 laureates but Iran holds the unique distinction of being the only regime to confiscate a winner’s medal. Iran ‘illegally’ freezes Ebadi’s assets: colleague
AFP: Iran has "illegally" frozen bank accounts belonging to Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi, in a bid to step up pressure on the rights advocate and critic of the Islamic regime, a colleague told AFP on Friday. White House slams charges against Iranian-US scholar
AFP: The White House on Thursday slammed as "baseless" the new charges levied against Iranian-American scholar Kian Tajbakhsh, jailed in Iran for his alleged role in post-election unrest. China considers supporting IAEA on Iran – minister
Reuters: China is "in principle" considering supporting an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) resolution demanding Iran immediately mothball a uranium enrichment site it hid for years, a vice foreign minister said. 