(PTI): The US senators, who proposed tougher sanction against Iran earlier this year, seem to have taken a softer tone in the new amendment they have presented.
Although the amendment still calls for more sanctions against Iran in the event of talks failing, it moves away from allegations that Tehran’s civilian nuclear program is gearing up (more…)
(PTI): The European Union is considering imposing political sanctions on Iran by placing travel bans on certain Iranian officials after Tehran arrested local British Embassy staff in post-election events.
The Financial Times Deutschland, citing European diplomats meeting in Sweden, reported that the decision (more…)
(PTI): Moscow opposes imposing sanctions on Iran over what the West describes as a crackdown on protesters who illegally took to the streets following the country’s presidential election.
“We believe that sanctions against Iran over its internal political problems would be unlawful and counter-productive,” Xinhua quoted Russia’s Foreign (more…)
(PTI):US President Barack Obama is re-branding a Bush-era plan to fund anti-government Iran-based elements through domestic and foreign entities, a report says.
The Obama White House has apparently refused to act on the former administration’s decision to allocate USD 66 million to Iranian dissidents, devising a new approach (more…)
(PTI): The head of defeated presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi’s information committee, Abolfazl Fateh, has not been allowed to leave the country for Britain.
Following the recent incidents and a move by some Mousavi supporters to provoke people to hold “illegal gatherings”, Fateh - who is a PhD student in Britain - has been banned (more…)
(PTI): Iran’s Guardian Council says it is ready to recount a random 10 percent of the ballot boxes in the last Friday’s presidential election.
“Although the Guardian Council is not legally obliged … we are ready to recount 10 percent of the (ballot) boxes randomly in the presence of representatives of the candidates,” the electoral watchdog’s spokesman, Abbas-Ali (more…)
(PTI): Revelations by the brother of Jundullah leader Abdolmalek Rigi confirm reports that the US helped the armed separatist ring carry out terror activities in Iran.
In a recent interview conducted prior to his execution, Abdulhamid Rigi told Press TV that since 2005, his brother had repeatedly met with US agents in Islamabad and Karachi and communicated (more…)
(PTI): One day after the IAEA confirmed the non-diversion of Iran’s nuclear program, the presidents of France and the US accuse Iran of attempting to obtain nuclear weaponry.
In its latest report on Iran’s nuclear program, released on Friday, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) “continues to verify the non-diversion of declared nuclear (more…)
(PTI): Tehran has replaced France’s Total with a Chinese company to develop phase 11 of Iran’s South Pars gas field.
An Iranian delegation headed by managing director of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) Seyfollah Jashnsaz, which is on a visit to Beijing, has finalized the deal with China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) today, IRNA (more…)
(PTI): With a military option still on the table to stop Iran’s nuclear program, the Israeli foreign minister says his government does not see the need to attack Iran.
Avigdor Lieberman, who is currently in Moscow for talks with Russian officials, slightly softened repeated warnings from Tel Aviv that Tehran’s nuclear activities (more…)
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