Reuters: Iran, under U.N. Security Council sanctions over its nuclear program, will seek a seat on the council in an election this week that will pit it in a probably hopeless contest against Japan.
Iran seeks U.N. Security Council seat
Iran’s government fails to end bazaar tax strike
Reuters: A week-long strike against a new value added tax (VAT) appeared to be spreading in Tehran's bazaar on Sunday, even though the Iranian government suspended the measure for two months, witnesses said on Sunday.
Oil price fall an “alarm bell” – Iran cbank official
Reuters: The falling oil price is an "alarm bell" for Iran, the world's fourth-largest crude producer, a senior central bank official said in comments published on Sunday.
Yemen tries nationals accused of spying for Iran
AFP: The trial began on Saturday of three Yemenis who are alleged to have spied for Iran.
Iran calls for oil market stability as prices slide
Reuters: Iran's oil minister said on Saturday the main problem facing the oil market was related to demand and called for stability, speaking a day after crude prices dropped more than 10 percent.
Dubai is the ‘hole in the net’ of sanctions on Iran
Daily Telegraph: Iran is evading United Nations sanctions by running a global network of merchants prepared to supply equipment that could be of military use.
Somalia pirates release Iranian bulk carrier- IRNA
Reuters: An Iranian bulk carrier and its 29 crew was released by pirates on Friday, seven weeks after it was hijacked off the coast of Somalia in August, Iran's official IRNA news agency.
India will become Iran’s main buyer of oil in 2009
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 10 – Iran said on Friday that India would in 2009 become its top Asian buyer of oil, ahead of China and Japan.
India will become Iran’s main buyer of oil in 2009
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 10 – Iran said on Friday that India would in 2009 become its top Asian buyer of oil, ahead of China and Japan.
Iran readies to fend off enemy assaults on capital
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 10 – Radical Islamist militiamen affiliated to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) are staging military exercises in the suburbs of Tehran on Friday to defend the Iranian capital against "natural disasters" and "enemy assaults".
