AFP: Even at 115 dollars a barrel, oil is priced too low, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in comments published on Saturday adding that the commodity "should find its real value".
Iran says oil price too low at 115 dollars a barrel
Victims of 1983 bombing of U.S. Embassy in Beirut recalled
Los Angeles Times: The explosion shook the earth. And it wouldn't be the last one. Twenty-five years ago Friday, a suicide bomber drove a pickup truck full of explosives into the U.S. Embassy in downtown Beirut, killing 63 people. It heralded the rise in the Middle East of a soon-to-be common tool in the arsenal of radicals: the suicide bomb.
Iran should defend Islamic world: top cleric
AFP: A high-ranking Iranian cleric on Friday said the country should grow into a military super power to defend all Muslims, following an army parade at a time of mounting tension with the West.
IAEA to press arms issue in Iran talks
Reuters: The U.N. nuclear watchdog's top investigator will launch talks in Tehran on Monday to press for Iranian answers to Western intelligence alleging that Iran covertly studied how to design atomic bombs.
Top Iran lawmaker: We will never abandon enrichment
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 18 – A senior official in Iran’s hard-line dominated Majlis (Parliament) has stressed that "resolutions and sanctions imposed against Iran will never stop the country's nuclear program”, state media reported on Thursday.
Top Iran lawmaker: We will never abandon enrichment
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 18 – A senior official in Iran’s hard-line dominated Majlis (Parliament) has stressed that "resolutions and sanctions imposed against Iran will never stop the country's nuclear program”, state media reported on Thursday.
Deterring the undeterrable
Washington Post: The era of nonproliferation is over. During the first half-century of the nuclear age, safety lay in restricting the weaponry to major powers and keeping it out of the hands of rogue states. This strategy was inevitably going to break down. The inevitable has arrived.
Lawmakers criticize Bush’s Iran policy
CNN: Frustrated U.S. lawmakers from both sides of the aisle slammed the Bush administration Thursday for an Iran policy they charged lacks direction and has failed to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions.
President Bush, Britain’s Gordon Brown denounce Iran
Los Angeles Times: President Bush and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown offered equally stern warnings Thursday about the potential dangers of Iran's nuclear program, and the Briton held out the prospect of extended European sanctions to block outside investment.
Iranian oil output increases by 85,000 barrels per day
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 18 – The international oil cartel OPEC’s latest report for oil production indicates that Iran has increased its daily production by 85,000 barrels to 3.963 million in March, state media reported on Wednesday.
