AP: Iran on Friday condemned U.S. sanctions on the country's largest shipping line as "illegal and unjustifiable," insisting the company never engaged in any illicit activities such as the transfer of equipment for Tehran's missile and nuclear programs. Iran calls US sanctions on shipping line illegal
AP: Iran on Friday condemned U.S. sanctions on the country's largest shipping line as "illegal and unjustifiable," insisting the company never engaged in any illicit activities such as the transfer of equipment for Tehran's missile and nuclear programs. 15 people killed in Iran bus crash
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 12 – At least 15 people were killed on Friday when a bus veered off a bridge on a highway west of the Iranian capital Tehran.
15 people killed in Iran bus crash
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 12 – At least 15 people were killed on Friday when a bus veered off a bridge on a highway west of the Iranian capital Tehran.
Iran renews nuclear weapons development
Daily Telegraph: Nuclear experts responsible for monitoring Iran's nuclear programme have discovered that enough enriched uranium, which if processed to weapons grade level could be used to make up to six atom bombs, has disappeared from the main production facility at Isfahan.
U.S. ambassador presses for Iran sanctions
New York Times: Zalmay Khalilzad, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, urged members of the Security Council on Thursday to approve financial sanctions against Iran.
Palin talks tough on Iran, Russia in ABC interview
Los Angeles Times: Sarah Palin took a hard line on Russia and Iran on Thursday as she fielded questions on foreign affairs for the first time since Republican presidential candidate John McCain named her his running mate two weeks ago.
Iran, Syria talks in Moscow amid stand-off with West
AFP: Russian diplomatic and military officials held talks with their Iranian and Syrian counterparts Friday, amid tensions with the West following Russia's conflict with Georgia last month. IAEA probe stalls, Iran slowly boosts atom enrichment
Reuters: A U.N. watchdog inquiry into whether Iran covertly researched how to assemble an atom bomb appears to have stalled while Tehran slowly but steadily builds up a sensitive uranium-enrichment program, diplomats say. Iran ‘won’t wait forever’ on Nabucco
AFP: Iranian Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari on Friday warned Austrian energy giant OMV that it should sign a deal on the Nabucco gas pipeline soon or Tehran might look for other partners. US ‘refuses to give Israel bombs’ fearing Iran strike
AFP: The United States has turned down an Israeli request for "bunker buster" bombs and mid-air refuelling planes for fear they could be used to attack Iran, the Haaretz newspaper said. 