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2009-01-07 00:20

Turkey holds suspicious Iran-Venezuela shipment (AP)

AP - Turkey was holding a suspicious shipment bound for Venezuela from Iran because it contained lab equipment capable of producing explosives, a customs official said Tuesday.

2009-01-07 00:20

Analysis: In Gaza fight, Iran lurks in background (AP)

AP - Israel's fight with Hamas in Gaza, like the war with Hezbollah in Lebanon two years ago, is not just a struggle over the Palestinian issue but a broader proxy battle between Western allies and Iran for the very future of the Middle East.

2009-01-05 21:26

Iran says 70,000 volunteer for Israel fight (AP)

AP - More than 70,000 Iranian students have volunteered to carry out suicide bombings against Israel, Iran's state news agency reported Monday, but President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has not responded to their request for permission.

2009-01-05 21:26

Calls to use oil as weapon in Gaza fight fall flat (AP)

An unidentified oil worker labors away on a pipeline Monday, Jan. 5, 2009, in the Sakhir, Bahrain, oil fields. An Iranian revolutionary guard commander is urging Islamic countries to use oil as a weapon to end the fighting in Gaza, echoing a similar call days earlier by lawmakers in Bahrain. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)AP - The call to use oil as a weapon against Israel's friends once would have echoed in capitals across the Middle East. But even as fighting widens in Gaza, threats of an oil embargo by some in Iran and Bahrain are falling flat.


2009-01-05 14:46

Closure of Nobel winner's office legal issue: Iran (Reuters)

Iran's Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi poses before an interview with Reuters in her office in Tehran March 16, 2008. (Steve Crisp/Reuters)Reuters - Iran said on Monday the closing of the office of Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi was a legal matter and the authorities would provide security for her if she needed it.


2009-01-05 14:46

Iran and Bahrain officials call for oil as weapon (AP)

AP - An Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander is calling on Islamic countries to use oil as a weapon to end the fighting in Gaza, echoing a similar call days earlier by lawmakers in Bahrain.

2009-01-04 18:42

Maliki seeks Iran help to rebuild Iraq (AFP)

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (left) shakes hands with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on January 3. Maliki says he hopes Iran will help rebuild his conflict-torn country by boosting economic ties.(AFP/Behrouz Mehri)AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Sunday that he hoped Iran would help rebuild his conflict-torn country by boosting economic ties.


2009-01-03 22:14

Iraqi PM says links with Iran are developing (AFP)

Iran's vice president Parviz Davoudi (L) shakes hands with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki upon the latter's arrival at Tehran's Mehrabad airport. Relations between Iraq and Iran are developing in a number of ways, Maliki said during a visit to Iran on Saturday.(AFP/Behrouz Mehri)AFP - Relations between Iraq and Iran are developing in a number of ways, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said during a visit to Iran on Saturday.


2009-01-03 22:14

Iran security chief meets Syria's Assad over Gaza (AFP)

This picture released by the Syrian Arab News Agency shows Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (R) meeting with Iran's Supreme National Security Council chief Saeed Jalili (L) in Damascus. Assad on Saturday met Jalili to discuss the situation in the Gaza Strip, the official SANA news agency reported.(AFP/SANA)AFP - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday met Iran's Supreme National Security Council chief Saeed Jalili to discuss the situation in the Gaza Strip, the official SANA news agency reported.


2009-01-03 15:33

Iraqi premier visits Iran to discuss US-Iraq pact (AP)

AP - Iraq's prime minister is visiting Iran where the newly implemented security deal between the United States and Baghdad is expected to top his agenda.

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