Reuters: Tough U.N. sanctions on North Korea should help convince Iran to suspend its suspected nuclear weapons program, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said on Sunday.
U.S. says North Korea sanctions should help sway Iran
Iran to pursue atomic work despite pressure – agency
Reuters: Iran’s president said Tehran would keep up its nuclear activities despite Western countries’ mounting threats and pressures, the student news agency ISNA reported on Sunday.
Britain raps Iran rights abuses
Iran Focus: London, Oct. 15 Britains Foreign Office censured human rights violations by Irans theocratic government in its 2006 annual human rights report.
Britain raps Iran rights abuses
Iran Focus: London, Oct. 15 Britains Foreign Office censured human rights violations by Irans theocratic government in its 2006 annual human rights report.
Irans Supreme Leader accuses U.S. of fomenting unrest in Iraq
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 15 Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused the United States and Britain of deliberately fomenting unrest in Iraq.
Irans Supreme Leader accuses U.S. of fomenting unrest in Iraq
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 15 Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused the United States and Britain of deliberately fomenting unrest in Iraq.
Iran threatens to limit nuclear inspection if sanctioned
AFP: A heavyweight Iranian lawmaker warned Sunday Tehran would limit inspections by the UN of its nuclear sites if slapped with sanctions over its atomic program, the student ISNA agency reported.
Germany to Iran: It’s not too late to avoid sanctions
Reuters: Germany’s foreign minister told Iran on Saturday it was not too late to avoid sanctions and urged the Islamic republic to return to negotiations over its nuclear programme.
A feared force roils business in Iran
Wall Street Journal: Early one morning in August, a pair of Iranian military vessels pulled up alongside the Orizont, a Romanian oil rig working in waters off the coast of Iran. Armed men jumped out and clambered up one leg of the drilling platform.
Norway’s Statoil is fined by SEC over Iran affair
Wall Street Journal: The Securities and Exchange Commission and Justice Department levied a $21 million fine against Norwegian oil company Statoil ASA for a payment it made in 2002 to win development of a critical Iranian petroleum project.
