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  • British Court Ruling Threatens Iran Sanctions

    LONDON Western government sanctions against Iran suffered a big setback on Wednesday when Britain's top court ruled that the government was wrong to have imposed sanctions on the biggest Iranian private bank over alleged links to Tehran's nuclear program. The Bank Mellat case and 50 more like it pending at the European Union's General Court have cast a cloud over the future of EU ...

  • Analysts Assess Impact of Military Attack on Iran

    The United States and the European Union believe Iran is seeking to develop nuclear weapons, but Tehran says its program is for peaceful, civilian purposes. The international community has been trying for years to persuade Iran to end its uranium-enrichment program, but to no avail. Low-enriched uranium can be used for civilian nuclear-power plants, but highly enriched uranium is an ...

  • NRI lawyer wins Iran bank case in British Supreme Court

    Mumbai-born Parsi lawyer Sarosh Zaiwala Wednesday notched a remarkable success in a bank case in the British Supreme Court, with major ramifications on the international banking system, an official said. By the court verdict, the British government's sanctions on Iran's largest private bank, Bank Mellat, were lifted after the its security service's "Secret Court" failed to produce significant ...

  • Green is the colour Sahan Delijanis novel takes on the revolution in Iran and the struggle for freedom

    The scene was quite different from what we saw in Iran in 2009, though both incidents are continuations of - perhaps reactions to - the Islamic revolution in which students rose up, the shah was deposed and theocracy ...

  • Iran courts China for drilling rigs

    Iran announced plans to pay $850 million to secure 10 drilling rigs from Chinese manufacturers instead of domestic companies. The Iranian government said it was working to decouple its economy from the oil and natural gas sector. The national currency, the rial, collapsed last year under the weight of Western economic sanctions targeting the energy sector. Nevertheless, the North Drilling Co. ...

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  • Pakistan warms to Iranian gas pipeline

    There is no reason for the Pakistani government to delay the construction of a natural gas pipeline from Iran, the natural resources minister said. Iran wants to construct a natural gas pipeline from the South Pars natural gas complex in the Persian Gulf across the border to Pakistan. The U.S. government objects to the project because of the eventual economic benefits to Tehran. Federal ...

  • Syrian conflict a proxy war against Iran

    Syria's national flag flies during the flag raising ceremony at the Olympic village in London on July 25, 2012. The Syrian conflict appears to have devolved into a proxy war among world powers. (Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images) CAIRO, Egypt -- The 17-month-old ...

  • Post-presidency whats next for Irans Ahmadinejad

    Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has denied the Holocaust existed, holds up copies of the Koran and the Bible as he addresses the 65th United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York in this Sept. 23, 2010 file ...

  • Iran and Hezbollah go global

    By Emanuele Scimia The recent discovery in Nigeria of an arsenal with Hezbollah's fingerprints all over it has reinforced the suspicion that Iran and the Party of God are extending their outreach while helping security forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against Sunni rebels backed by Western countries, Turkey and the Persian Gulf petro-monarchies. From Africa to Europe, ...

  • British High Court Quashes Sanctions On Private Iranian Bank

    Britain's Supreme Court has ruled that sanctions should not have been imposed on Iran’s biggest private bank over its alleged links to Iran's nuclear weapons program. The court ruled that Bank Mellat had been arbitrarily, irrationally, and disproportionately singled out for punishment and that the sanctions should be quashed. The ruling means that the bank can now sue the ...

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