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Iran dismisses execution sentence on U.S.-Iranian national
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March 05, 2012 03:34 PM
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TEHRAN: Iran's supreme court on Monday dismissed an execution sentence passed by a revolutionary court against an Iranian-American national accused of spying for the CIA, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. "The supreme court nullified the execution sentence against Amir Mirza...
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Iran to announce nuclear progress: Ahmadinejad
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February 11, 2012 11:54 AM
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TEHRAN: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday that the Islamic Republic, targeted by tougher Western sanctions, would soon announce advances in its nuclear program.He was speaking on the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic revolution that toppled the U.S.-backed shah. Tens of thousands...
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Iran says 11 Iranian pilgrims kidnapped in Syria
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February 01, 2012 04:29 PM
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TEHRAN: Eleven Iranian citizens were kidnapped while on a religious pilgrimage in Syria, state television reported on Wednesday, just days after the abduction of another group of pilgrims by an armed group in the violence-torn country. "Their bus was on its way ... to Damascus when it was...
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Iran’s Ahmadinejad ups rates in effort to stem money crisis
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January 26, 2012 02:20 AM
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TEHRAN: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad agreed to increase bank interest rates Wednesday, hoping to halt a spiraling currency crisis intensified by new Western sanctions. “The economy minister has announced Ahmadinejad has agreed with the approval of the Money and Credit Council to...
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Iran says sanctions to fail, repeats Hormuz threat
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January 24, 2012 08:11 PM
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TEHRAN: Iranian politicians said on Tuesday they expected the European Union to backtrack on its oil embargo and repeated a threat to close the vital Strait of Hormuz shipping lane if the West succeeds in preventing Tehran from exporting crude. A day after the EU slapped a ban on Iranian oil,...
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Iran cracks down on moral peril of Barbie peddlers
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January 17, 2012 02:22 AM
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TEHRAN: Iran’s morality police are cracking down on the sale of Barbie dolls to protect the public from what they see as pernicious Western culture eroding Islamic values, shopkeepers said Monday. As the West imposes the toughest ever sanctions on Iran and tensions rise over its nuclear...
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Iran clerics urge unity as nuclear scientist buried
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January 13, 2012 03:43 PM
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TEHRAN: The Tehran funeral on Friday of a nuclear scientist blown up by a hitman saw the ruling clergy urge Iranians to rally behind it at a forthcoming election and face down Western threats against Iran's nuclear program. In a mood of high emotion in a city increasingly beset by U.S. and...
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Iran riyal slides, ‘dollar’ text messages blocked
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January 11, 2012 01:26 AM
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TEHRAN: Iran’s currency has slid 20 percent against the dollar in the last week despite central bank intervention, and Iranians concerned about the economy said Tuesday attempts to send text messages using the word “dollar” appeared to be blocked. The central bank reportedly...
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Iran rial slides, 'dollar' text messages appear blocked
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January 10, 2012 01:37 PM
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TEHRAN: Iran's currency has slid 20 percent against the dollar in the last week despite central bank intervention, and Iranians concerned about the economy said on Tuesday attempts to send text messages using the word "dollar" appeared to be blocked. The central bank reportedly...
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Iran sentences former president's daughter to jail
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January 03, 2012 11:12 AM
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TEHRAN: The daughter of influential former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was on Tuesday sentenced to jail and banned from political activities for "anti state propaganda" dating back to the 2009 disputed presidential election, Iranian media reported. The Islamic state has...
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Iran denies banning trade finance for imports from UAE
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December 25, 2011 02:17 AM
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Iran denied on Saturday reports that the country had prohibited financing for imports of products from the United Arab Emirates. "Banking transactions between Iran and UAE are being continued as before and they have not stopped," state TV reported. An Iranian...
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Iran calls for OPEC cuts, Arab members unlikely to agree
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November 12, 2011 01:27 AM
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TEHRAN/LONDON: OPEC president Iran threw down the gauntlet to the Gulf Arab oil producers Friday, asking them to reduce output back to pre-Libya-crisis volumes, making agreement on output policy at OPEC’s December meeting more difficult. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries,...
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Iran calls for OPEC cuts, Arab members unlikely to agree
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November 11, 2011 12:29 PM
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TEHRAN/LONDON: OPEC president Iran threw down the gauntlet to the Gulf Arab oil producers on Friday, asking them to reduce output back to pre-Libya crisis volumes, making agreement on output policy at OPEC's December meeting more difficult. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting...
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Iranians fear sanctions, not war, after U.N. report
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November 10, 2011 01:06 AM
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TEHRAN: When a huge thunder storm rattled windows across Tehran Sunday night, some of the Iranian capital’s jumpier residents awoke thinking Israel was finally making good on its threat to attack. Ahead of Tuesday’s leak of the latest U.N. report on Iran’s nuclear program,...
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Predicting, not gambling: A day at the Iran races
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November 10, 2011 01:05 AM
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NOWRUZABAD, Iran: As Rio Collection galloped across the finishing line, Sardar hooted with joy and high-fived his friends. He had just won 200,000 rials (almost $20). Not by “betting” on the horse, he insisted – betting is illegal under Iran’s Islamic law – but by...
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