AFP: US president-elect Barack Obama vowed "tough but direct diplomacy" with Iran, offering incentives along with the threat of tougher sanctions to disarm the Islamic republic's nuclear drive.
Obama vows tough diplomacy with Iran
Three hanged in south-east Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 07 – Iranian authorities have hanged three men in the restive province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, south-east Iran, state media reported.
Three hanged in south-east Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 07 – Iranian authorities have hanged three men in the restive province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, south-east Iran, state media reported.
Iran tests new missile from warship: reports
Reuters: Iran's military test-fired a new surface-to-surface missile from a warship as part of exercises along a strategic shipping route, state media reported on Sunday.
Diplomacy is ‘best course’ to stop Iran nuclear work, Rice says
AFP: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice acknowledged Sunday that Iran had not yielded to international demands to stop sensitive nuclear work, but said diplomacy remained "the best course."
Admirals walk the plank after Iranian humiliation
Sunday Times: The Royal Navy has been accused of carrying out a discreet purge of senior figures involved in the fiasco over the arrest by Iranian Revolutionary Guards of 15 British sailors and Marines.
Iran shells remote area of northern Iraq: mayor
Reuters: Iran shelled a remote area of northeastern Iraq for a second day on Saturday, a regional official said, but there were no details of casualties or material damage.
Iran vows to retaliate after rebels kill 16 police
Reuters: Iran will give a "tooth-breaking" response to a Sunni Muslim rebel group which has killed 16 policemen it abducted in June, a senior official said in comments broadcast on Saturday.
Italy pushes stronger EU role on Afghanistan, Iran
Reuters: Italy will press Europe to send more troops to Afghanistan and implement more effective sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme, Italy's Foreign Minister Franco Frattini told Reuters on Friday.
Bush says Iran nuclear program remains threat
Reuters: U.S. President George W. Bush said on Friday that Iran's nuclear program remained a threat to peace and the United States would not allow Tehran to develop an atomic weapon.
