Iran has declared it will begin enriching its uranium stockpile to a higher level, further raising fears over the country’s nuclear ambitions.
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/ 4 February 2010
US and key allies urge actions as well as words in a wary response to Iran’s surprise U-turn on proposals to swap enriched uranium for nuclear fuel.
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/ 19 January 2010
Iran said on Tuesday that Western warships stationed in the Gulf are "best targets" for the Islamic republic if its nuclear sites are attacked.
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/ 13 January 2010
Parliament speaker Ali Larijani, Iran’s former chief nuclear negotiator, accused United States President Barack Obama of state terrorism on Wednesday.
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/ 12 January 2010
Iran on Tuesday accused the US and Israel and their "mercenaries" of carrying out a bomb attack that killed a nuclear scientist, state media reported.
Opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi said Iran was in "serious crisis" and called for the immediate release of his supporters.
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/ 31 December 2009
A divided Iran enters 2010 after a year marked by recurring deadly protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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/ 30 November 2009
World powers threatened new sanctions against Iran on Monday after Tehran defiantly pledged to build 10 more uranium-enrichment plants.
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/ 29 October 2009
Iran was widely expected on Thursday to deliver its response to a UN-brokered proposal regarding a uranium-enrichment deal.
Six world powers on Thursday started crunch talks with Iran seeking to pressure Tehran to prove that its nuclear programme is peaceful.
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/ 20 September 2009
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad travels to New York this week for the UN General Assembly, his disputed re-election still sparking violent protests.
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/ 6 September 2009
As fresh sanctions loom against Iran, the country’s president announced his government’s readiness to resume negotiations over its nuclear programme.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is personally behind the alleged fraud in the June 12 presidential election, a former president claims.
Once cast as part of the ‘axis of evil’, Iranians have shown they are real people, not collateral damage in waiting.
An Iranian group that had planned to organise a rally on Saturday backed down after authorities warned of consequences if they went ahead.
Iran dismissed on Wednesday Egyptian accusations against Lebanon’s Shi’ite militia Hezbollah as an "old trick".
Israeli leaders and military commanders deemed by Iran to be "war criminals" should be executed, a senior cleric said in a Friday prayer sermon.
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/ 28 January 2009
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad demanded on Wednesday that President Barack Obama apologise for "crimes" committed by the US against Iran.
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/ 19 January 2009
Two internationally renowned Iranian Aids physicians were sentenced to prison over the weekend for allegedly participating in a US-backed plot.
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/ 13 January 2009
Iran has arrested four people accused of involvement in a US-financed plot to topple its Islamic system of government, the judiciary said on Tuesday.
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/ 8 September 2008
Iranian Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said Monday that Opec was oversupplying the market as he arrived for a meeting of the cartel in Vienna.
The UN security council has called on Iran to curb uranium enrichment and reprocessing on the grounds that they could be used to make a bomb.
The price of oil rocketed to a record high past $146 a barrel on Thursday owing to falling reserves of US crude and simmering tensions over Iran.
Oil surged past $145 per barrel for the first time on Thursday as the weak US dollar and Middle East tension stoked its record-breaking run.
Iran on Monday vowed a "very painful" response to any Israeli action after a senior minister of the Jewish state warned of attacks if Tehran did not halt its atomic drive, the ISNA news agency reported.
The soaring guitar solos and haunting keyboard melodies owe more than a nod to Pink Floyd, Yes, Deep Purple and other ageing icons of 70s British rock. But while they may have emulated their heroes’ musical virtuosity, the members of Norik Misakian Band are unlikely to follow their path to world fame and fortune.
Iran came under concerted international pressure on Tuesday to back off from a confrontation with the West over its nuclear programmes as Europe’s main powers sought to salvage an ambitious mediation effort. The Europeans are threatening to ”terminate the dialogue” if the Iranians do not back down.
The main European powers on Friday called an emergency meeting of the United Nation’s nuclear authority to try to chart a way out of an escalating crisis with Iran over its nuclear ambitions. The 35-strong board of the International Atomic Energy Agency is to meet on Tuesday in Vienna.
The European Union warned Iran on Tuesday that it would end two years of negotiations over nuclear projects if Tehran fulfils threats to end its freeze on the enrichment of uranium. A United States intelligence estimate on Iran concluded that it could be 10 years before Tehran had sufficient material to arm a nuclear warhead.
Britain, France and Germany are to promise Iran that it will not face military attack if it abandons enriching uranium, the key to building a nuclear bomb, a senior Iranian official said on Sunday. Both sides in the long-running dispute upped the ante at the weekend, with Tehran saying on Sunday that it would resume some nuclear fuel activities on Monday.