Shares in MTN Group have slid after rival Turkcell filed a lawsuit against the mobile operator, alleging it bribed officials to win an Iranian bid.
The department of international relations and cooperations says government can’t be bought but recent reports have contradicted this statement.
A lawsuit filed by Turkcell over a licence in Iran has implicated MTN executives and state officials in an explosive bribery and weapons scandal.
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi says stalled talks between Iran and world powers will be revived on April 13 at a place yet to be agreed.
For leaders who seek military intervention in Syria, Baghdad provides a cautionary tale, with violence and sectarian hate persisting a decade later.
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.
Mobile giant MTN faces calls to disinvest from Iran amid pressure on South Africa from the West as well as amid corruption allegations.
The National Conventional Arms Control Committee is looking into claims that SA has been exporting attack helicopters to Iran through front companies.
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.
A cache of emails to and from Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad reveals that he took advice from Iran on how to handle the uprising against his rule.
The United States has delegated Russia to talk some sense into Iran in order to avoid military strikes from Israel.
Energy Minister Dipuo Peters says SA hopes to have a plan by the end of May for replacing Iranian crude that makes up a quarter of crude imports.
Hamas will not do Iran’s bidding in any war with Israel, according to senior figures within the militant Islamic group.
International sanctions have a patchy history, and Iran’s oil elite have been dodging them for decades, writes <b>Peg Mackey</b>.
An uncompromising speech in the US by Israel’s prime minister has persuaded the public back home that war with Iran is possible, perhaps even likely.
Iran has sentenced a prominent human rights lawyer, Abdolfattah Soltani, to 18 years in jail for allegedly spreading anti-regime propaganda.
Iranians wrapped up a parliamentary election likely to reinforce Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s power over rival hardliners.
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.
Oil price soars as Iran, Opec’s second-highest producer, halts exports to British and French companies.
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/ 23 February 2012
The UN nuclear watchdog’s latest mission to Iran failed to budge a defiant Tehran over its disputed nuclear programme.
The IAEA has failed to secure an agreement with Iran during talks over disputed nuclear activities, saying it was denied access to a key military site
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/ 21 February 2012
In a country where women’s rights — including what they wear — are severely curtailed many have come up with a new way of channelling their rage
A team of UN inspectors has arrived in Tehran for talks on Iran’s nuclear programme that could either defuse or escalate a looming crisis in the Gulf.
Concerns about state censorship ahead of elections have been raised in Iran as the country faced a second disruption in internet connectivity.
The head of the US military has warned Israel against attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities, saying such a strike would be destabilising "at this time".
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/ 19 February 2012
The Middle East could be the battleground for a new cold war, if Iran succeeds in acquiring nuclear weapons, Britain’s foreign secretary has warned.
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/ 13 February 2012
In Iran, attempts to get onto foreign news pages have been met with a page saying, "Access to this page is a violation of computer crime laws."
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/ 12 February 2012
Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei has warned Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas against any "compromise" in its fight against Israel.
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/ 11 February 2012
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that the Islamic Republic would soon announce "very important" achievements in the nuclear field.
To add to Syria’s internal problems, it’s embroiled in the west’s fight with Iran.