BAGHDAD, Dec. 3, 2008 (Reuters) U.S. forces in Iraq captured two suspected members of an Iranian-backed network and killed a third Wednesday, part of U.S. efforts to target a group it says has attacked Iraqi citizens and foreign troops. ... > full story
DOHA, Nov. 29, 2008 (Reuters) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blamed the West for the global financial crisis on Saturday, saying other countries were being dragged in to help resolve Western problems. ... > full story
BAGHDAD, Nov. 28, 2008 (Reuters) A suicide bomber killed 12 people in an Iraqi mosque on Friday while thousands of followers of anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr demonstrated in Baghdad after parliament passed a pact allowing U.S. troops to remain through 2011. ... > full story
TOKYO, Nov. 27, 2008 (Reuters) Iran would welcome talks between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, the country's vice president said in an interview with Japan's Kyodo news agency ... > full story
TEHRAN, Nov. 26, 2008 (Reuters) Iran is now running 5,000 uranium enrichment centrifuges, a senior official said on Wednesday, signaling an expansion of work the West fears is aimed at making nuclear weapons. ... > full story
TEHRAN, Nov. 22, 2008 (Reuters) Iran has executed an Iranian businessman convicted of spying on the military for the Islamic Republic's arch foe Israel, the judiciary said on Saturday. ... > full story
UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 21, 2008 (Reuters) Western nations claimed a success on Friday when a U.N. General Assembly resolution condemning human rights violations in Iran passed through a key committee more easily than in the past. ... > full story
VIENNA, Nov. 21, 2008 (Reuters) Iran rejected Friday U.S. reports it had enriched enough uranium to make an atom bomb, saying this would require steps it had ruled out like ejecting U.N. inspectors and leaving the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). ... > full story
ABU DHABI, Nov. 20, 2008 (Reuters) Dubai should keep a close eye on sanctions-hit Iranian banks operating in the Gulf trade hub, a U.S. official involved in tracking suspicious financial activity said on Wednesday. ... > full story
TEHRAN, Nov. 18, 2008 (Reuters) Iran's parliament speaker urged Iraqi lawmakers to keep resisting a security pact with the United States, official media said Tuesday, a day after Baghdad signed an accord on U.S. troop presence in Iraq. ... > full story
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Iran says it now runs more than 5,000 centrifuges Nov. 26, 2008 (San Diego Union-Tribune) Iran now has more than 5,000 centrifuges operating and enriching uranium at the country's central plant, its nuclear chief said Wednesday, in the ...
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Lawmakers warn Swiss on Iranian energy deal June 6, 2008 (New Jersey Jewish News) TWO NEW JERSEY congressmen launched a bipartisan letter urging the Swiss government to cancel a $42 billion energy agreement signed between a Swiss ...