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Iran to restart nuke talks with IAEA
Iran will restart talks with a team of the United Nation's nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in a bid to allay their suspicions of a covert weapons programme.

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Iran seeks to halt EU oil exports
Iran's parliament is to discuss a bill Sunday that seeks to halt its oil exports to the European Union (EU).

The bill calls for a ban of oil exports to the EU as early as next week, Hossein...
Arab Gulf States Urged to Increase Pipelines After Iran's Oil Threats
As Iranian threats to close the Strait of Hormuz intensify, some energy experts are calling on Arab Gulf states to find alternative ways to export their petroleum. Experts differ, however, on whether...
Israel senses a bluff in Iran's retaliatory strike threat
Israeli intelligence estimates, backed by academic studies, have cast doubt about a military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities setting off a catastrophic set of events like a regional...
Pak-Iran gas pipeline project 'not under' international sanctions: FO
Pakistan has said that the gas pipeline project between it and Iran does not come under the sanctions imposed on Tehran because of its nuclear issue with the international community.

"Pakistan is...
California's insurance commissioner settles lawsuit on Iran
California's insurance commissioner will continue to beat the drum about insurers' investments in Iran after settling a lawsuit against a state agency about the Iran issue.Under the...
‘Massive’ Blockade Needed to Stop Iran Threat, Steinitz Says
Bloomberg January 27, 2012 A "massive" aerial and naval blockade of Iran, reminiscent of the 1962 U.S. quarantine of Cuba, is needed to stop the Islamic regime from pursuing nuclear...
Iran may ban oil sales to Europe next week
An unidentified woman rides her bike toward a gas station in central Paris. AFP photo A law to be debated in Iran's parliament on Jan. 29 could halt exports of oil to...
U.N. weapons experts going to Tehran
The U.N. nuclear agency is including two senior weapons experts on its next mission to Tehran in an unusually clear statement on the team's prime focus - wresting information from Iranian...
Iran president escapes attack
Tehran: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad escaped an assassination attempt on Wednesday when a blast hit one of the vehicles of his cavalcade, a media report said. Iran's Press TV, however,...
Brazil president says asylum offer to adulterous Iran woman is humanitarian gesture
The decision to give refuge to a convicted Iranian woman should be seen as a humanitarian act without political motives, said Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. "I made the offer...
Iran hits back at EU with own oil embargo threat
Fighting sanctions with sanctions in a test of strength with the West over its nuclear ambitions, Iran warned on Friday it may halt oil exports to Europe next week in a move calculated to hurt ailing...
Tehran to restart talks with UN nuclear inspectors
JULIAN BORGERIRAN IS due to open talks with United Nations nuclear inspectors tomorrow in an attempt to allay their suspicions of a covert Iranian weapons programme, the first such discussions in...
Israel warns time is running out before it launches strike on Iran
Economic sanctions by the European Union and the United States can only be allowed a limited time period to prevent Iran from attempting to acquire a nuclear arsenal before a military strike must be...
UN weapons experts going to Iran
The UN nuclear agency is including two senior weapons experts on a mission to Iran on Saturday.The move is an unusually clear statement on the team's prime focus - wresting information from...
Iran's nuclear plants soon 'immune' to attack
Iran is moving closer to the point when it will be too late to destroy its nuclear facilities with an air strike, Israel's defence minister warned Friday. Reviving Western concerns that his...
Iran to restart nuclear talks
Iran is prepared to restart talks with a team from the International Atomic Energy Agency in Tehran Sunday, officials said. Talks between Iranian nuclear officials and the IAEA team, the first such...
Iran: New negotiations on way?
An Iranian navy vessel fires a home-made surface to air short range missile named "Mehrab" during an Iranian military exercise on the Sea of Oman near the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran...
Iran Says It Could Terminate European Oil Sales Next Week
Iran warned on Friday that it could terminate oil sales to Europe as early as next week, and it bluntly advised Arab oil producers that any attempt by them to replace Iranian exports would be...
UN weapons experts to go to Tehran
VIENNA – The U.N. nuclear agency is including two senior weapons experts on its next mission to Tehran in an unusually clear statement on the team's prime focus -- wresting information...
APNewsBreak: UN Weapons Experts Going to Tehran
The U.N. nuclear agency is including two senior weapons experts on its next mission to Tehran in an unusually clear statement on the team's prime focus -- wresting information from Iranian...
UPDATE 10-Brent up on Iran; refinery work lifts U.S. gasoline
On Saturday 28 January 2012, 8:37 EST * Iran parliament to consider halting exports to EU * Bayway shut refinery unit lifts U.S. gasoline * U.S. GDP data below expectations * Coming up: U.S....
Brent crude up as Iran warns supply halt to Europe
On Saturday 28 January 2012, 7:15 EST NEW YORK, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Brent crude oil futures ended higher for a second straight day on Friday on supply disruption fears as Iran warned it may halt...
APNewsBreak: UN weapons experts going to Tehran
The U.N. nuclear agency is including two senior weapons experts on its next mission to Tehran in an unusually clear statement on the team's prime focus - wresting information from Iranian...
Ahmadinejad: Iran will respond to any threat proportionally, challenges Holocaust being historical reality
On Holocaust, he said that if it is a historical reality, so why research about it is prohibited and the researchers are imprisoned? Ahmadinejad: Iran will respond to any threat proportionally ...
UN weapons experts going to Tehran
VIENNA (AP) — Diplomats say the U.N. nuclear agency is including two senior weapons experts on a mission to Iran on Saturday.The move is an unusually clear statement on the team's prime...
US 'tightening the noose' on Iran
DAVOS, SWITZERLAND // America is "tightening the noose" on Iran over nuclear technology, and believes it will get the support of China in its latest intensification of the sanctions war,...
Harper and the U.S. are wrong on the Iran threat
It’s unlikely that Stephen Harper, John Baird, Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich have ever heard of Tamir Pardo, Meir Dagan, Amos Yadlin, Gabi Ashkenazi or Yuval Diskin. But it would probably make...
Limited options for dealing with restless Iran
By George Friedman Last week, I wrote on the strategic challenge Iran faces in its bid to shape a sphere of influence stretching from western Afghanistan to Beirut on the eastern Mediterranean...
Syrian Insurgents Claim Iranian Hostages
A Syrian insurgent group has released a video claiming they are holding seven Iranian citizens hostage and calling for the government to release a rebel army officer and cease military operations in...
Barak calls on world to stop Iranian nuclear threat
January 27, 2012 Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Friday warned that nuclear weapons in the hands of the Iranian regime would lead to regional proliferation, the spread of terrorism and a threat to...
U.N. Atomic Agency To Visit Iran For New Probe
The International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, is sending a team to Iran on Sunday to further look into the country's nuclear program. Here, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's ambassador to the...
Saudi Arabia Unable to Offset Iran Oil
South Korea's imports of Iranian crude surged 20 percent in 2011, data showed on Wednesday, the latest indication of Korea's dependence on oil despite pressure from its ally the United...
Majlis to Ban Oil Sale to Europe
South Korea's imports of Iranian crude surged 20 percent in 2011, data showed on Wednesday, the latest indication of Korea's dependence on oil despite pressure from its ally the United...
Prof. Qavamzadeh Wins CIBMTR Award
Iranian scientist Professor Ardeshir Qavamzadeh has won the 2012 award of the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research...
India Not Bound by Western Embargo
India's oil minister said Wednesday the energy-hungry nation was continuing to import oil from Iran and was not bound by new sanctions imposed by the European Union. The EU agreed earlier this...
China Transactions Surpass $45b
Domestic Economy Desk Trade between Iran and China exceeded $45 billion, said the Iranian ambassador to Beijing on Wednesday. Speaking while visiting Iran's handicrafts fair in Beijing,...
IRIB Launches ‘Namayesh’ Movie Channel
The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) has launched its second 24/7 movie network that airs Iranian and foreign films and TV series for viewers in Iran and the Middle East. The digital...
Sanctions Will Bear No Fruit for West
Political Desk President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed the West's claim that Iran is evading negotiation on it nuclear programs, describing it as western countries' ploy to justify...
Printing a Home: The Case for Contour Crafting
It can take anywhere from six weeks to six months to build a 2,800-square-foot, two-story house in the US, mostly because human beings do all the work. According to Txchnologist, within the next...