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IAEA Chief Calls For A Quick Iranian Decision
Mohammed el-Baradei, head of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran should make a timely response to an offer to export...
Nov 2, 20091 min read
Freedom of the Press?
In Iran, that’s a firm and chilling no. Iranian authorities have shuttered a Tehran business newspaper. The reason? It’s “content strayed...
Nov 2, 20091 min read
Iran Withdraws from Nuclear Agreement
Iran told the United Nations that it plans to not accept an agreement that its negotiators agreed to last week. The plan had called for...
Oct 29, 20091 min read
Revolutionary Guard Arrested in Pakistan
Eleven members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard and two vehicles were detained in Pakistan by police near the Iran-Pakistan border...
Oct 26, 20091 min read
UN Inspectors Make Their First Visit to Iran's Second Nuclear Enrichment Facility
UN inspectors made their first visit to recently disclosed second nuclear enrichment facility near the town of Qom. According to the ,...
Oct 25, 20091 min read
Iran, Israel Attend secret Nuclear Meeting in Cairo
Israeli and Iranian atomic energy officials met at a meeting in Cairo last month according to the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission. The...
Oct 22, 20091 min read
Iran Nuclear Fuel Agreement Put Forth by IAEA; Good deal for Iran
The IAEA submitted a draft agreement to Iran, France, Russia and the U.S. Although details are unconfirmed, it appears the agreement...
Oct 21, 20091 min read
Iran Might Go Back to France For Uranium Enrichment
Al Jazeera reported that there was a draft document circulating in Vienna today that might allow Iran and France to hammer out a deal to...
Oct 20, 20091 min read
Kian Tajbaksh, Iranian-American scholar sentenced to 12 years in Iranian Jail
Kian Tajbaksh, a noted Iranian-American scholar has been sentenced to 12 years in jail in Iran. Sources inside Iran say that the sentence...
Oct 20, 20091 min read
Iran Announces it Will Not Export Uranium
Iran had announced, after talks on October 1, that it would export approximately 75% of its estimated 1.5 tons of low-enriched uranium...
Oct 19, 20091 min read
Iran Claims West Behind Recent Attacks
While Iran meets in Vienna with western countries to talk about its nuclear program, Tehran claims that it has evidence linking Britain...
Oct 19, 20091 min read
ElBaradi Says Nuclear Talks Start Out Well
Mohamed ElBaradei, the IAEA Chief, said that talks today in Vienna between US, Russian, French and Iranian officials have started out...
Oct 19, 20091 min read
Iran rocked by attacks
As talks about Iran’s nuclear program are set to resume, suicide attacks have rocked the southeast region of Iran, which borders...
Oct 19, 20091 min read
Ahmadinejad Vows to Avenge Bombing
reports that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has vowed revenge on those responsible for a suicide bombing that killed 5 senior...
Oct 18, 20091 min read
US Missile Shield Talks, Non-NATO Members, and Russia
RIA Novosti reports that Russia has expressed concern about the United States’ missile shield talks with non-NATO ally Ukraine. As we...
Oct 15, 20091 min read
Israel may launch ground attacks on Iran after December
French newspaper Le Canard Enchainé speculates that Israel might launch a small special forces attack on Iran shortly after the new year....
Oct 15, 20091 min read
Russia Rejects Further Iranian Sanctions
Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, said all effort to deal with the Iranian nuclear program should focus on talks with Iran, and...
Oct 13, 20091 min read
Iran Positions Itself with Subsidy Cuts
The Iranian Parliament has supported a bill which would greatly reduce subsidies for food and energy. The Iranians claim that this will...
Oct 13, 20091 min read
Journalist flee Iran in Mass Numbers: Head to Europe and North America
In the months since the election upheaval in Iran, journalists have been banned and their work and safety has been threatened. Numerous...
Oct 13, 20091 min read
Threats of Sanctions against Iran won’t work according to Russia
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov today. Lavrov stated that the threat of sanctions...
Oct 13, 20091 min read
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