Sunday Telegraph: Iran will this week launch an audacious bid for election to the United Nations Security Council, the same body that has passed a series of resolutions against the Islamic regime for its illicit nuclear programme.
Iran condemns Japan as ‘pro-US stooge’ in battle for United Nations seat
Bar Ahmadinejad
Washington Times – By Senator John Barrasso: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice should deny the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, entry to the United States. As a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, I am asking Miss Rice to ban Mr. Ahmadinejad, a major sponsor of fundamentalist Islam and an enemy of the United States, from entering our country.
Iran says oil prices down on stronger dollar
Reuters: Iran's oil minister said on Sunday the stronger dollar was behind falling oil prices, and said the market was still oversupplied with oil as OPEC's decision to cut output had not been fully implemented.
Bombs kill 10 in Baghdad and near Iranian border
AP: A bomb concealed in a kiosk used to sell ice killed four people and wounded nine others Saturday at a security checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraqi authorities said.
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.
