Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 28 The Islamic Republic will not back away from its right to enrich uranium, Irans Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Wednesday less than a week after the United Nations Security Council imposed greater economic sanctions against it for doing so.
FM: Iran will not retreat an iota in nuclear impasse
FM: Iran will not retreat an iota in nuclear impasse
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 28 The Islamic Republic will not back away from its right to enrich uranium, Irans Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Wednesday less than a week after the United Nations Security Council imposed greater economic sanctions against it for doing so.
Captured female U.K. sailor shown on Iran television
Bloomberg: A female U.K. sailor who was among a group of Britons seized by Iranian forces in the Persian Gulf was shown on Iranian television today.
Britain freezing talks with Iran
AP: Britain said it was freezing talks on all other issues with Iran until it freed 15 Royal Navy crew members seized last week, and the British military released what it said was proof its boats were within Iraqi territorial waters when they were seized.
U.S. says not escalating tension with Iran
Reuters: The United States insisted on Wednesday it was not escalating tensions with Iran by holding naval exercises in the Gulf and backed British efforts to free 15 sailors and Marines captured last week.
Oil rises more than $1 on Iran concerns
Reuters: Oil rose more than $1 on Wednesday as escalating tensions between the West and Iran stoked crude supply concerns from the world’s No 4 exporter.
Bush, Putin discuss tensions over Iran
AP: President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday discussed growing tensions about Iran’s nuclear programs and Russia’s concerns about U.S. plans for a missile defense system in Europe.
Photos of captured British sailor as aired on Iran state television
Iran Focus: London, Mar. 28 The following are screen grabs of British sailor Faye Turney on Iranian state television. Turney, 26, was arrested at gunpoint by Iranian Revolutionary Guards along with 14 other Royal Marines and Navy personnel on the Iran-Iraq waterway on Friday. Despite repeated pleas by London, Iranian authorities have refused to release the group.
Photos of captured British sailor as aired on Iran state television
Iran Focus: London, Mar. 28 The following are screen grabs of British sailor Faye Turney on Iranian state television. Turney, 26, was arrested at gunpoint by Iranian Revolutionary Guards along with 14 other Royal Marines and Navy personnel on the Iran-Iraq waterway on Friday. Despite repeated pleas by London, Iranian authorities have refused to release the group.
Iran claims detained Britons were 0.5 km in Iranian waters
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 28 – Iran claimed on Wednesday that 15 British sailors who were arrested last week on the Iran-Iraq waterway were seized half a kilometre within Iranian territorial waters, hours after the British Ministry of Defence released global positioning system data as evidence that the group had been more than 2 km outside Iranian waters.
