Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has warned that military confrontation with Iran will impact global peace and stability, as he visits the Middle East hoping to ease tensions spiked by the US killing of a top Iranian general. His comments came at the start of a five-day Gulf tour that had been thrown into doubt after […]
The US is seeking to tighten the economic screws on Iran, abandoning a landmark 2015 nuclear deal and reimposing stringent sanctions
Zimbabwean police are looking for two journalists who wrote the story about a secret uranium export deal between Zimbabwe and Iran.
A Sars report has shown South Africa cut all crude oil imports from Iran in June amid heavy European and US sanctions over Iran’s nuclear programme.
Iran’s supreme leader has threatened a "lightning response" to any Israeli attack, defeating hopes of Western officials for a conciliatory tone.
Israel says an EU embargo on Iranian oil and additional sanctions — due to take effect from July — should begin now.
Trade sources say Engen has decided to buy additional crude from top oil exporter Saudi Aramco after it halted imports from Iran.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says international sanctions are hurting Iran’s economy but not enough to persuade it to curb its nuclear ambitions.
Shell is struggling to pay off $1-billion that it owes Iran for crude oil because EU and US sanctions make it almost impossible to process payments.
South Africa has suspended almost all of its oil imports from Iran and intends to abide by a US request to significantly drop supplies from the state.
South Africa is walking a fine line, balancing conflicting East-West attitudes to Iran while protecting oil imports and warding off fuel price hikes.
Iran has condemned what it calls the use of oil as a political tool against producers, referring to Western sanctions over Tehran’s nuclear programme.
International sanctions have a patchy history, and Iran’s oil elite have been dodging them for decades, writes <b>Peg Mackey</b>.
US officials say the embargoes against Iran are doomed to fail and are now just a means to delay an attack by Israel on the country.
Competing mobile operators MTN and Turkcell are keeping silent on the latter’s claims that MTN bribed its way into Iran six years ago.
Businesses across Iran are closing shop as a consequence of international sanctions imposed by the United States and economic mismanagement.