Read detail news A major U.S. newspaper is reporting that Iran has routinely switched off satellite tracking systems on its sea-bound oil tankers in a bid to sidestep international sanctions due to its controversial nuclear program. The news comes as Iran is set to meet U.N. nuclear agency officials. The Washington Post quotes unnamed U.S. officials Monday saying Iran started the tactic in [...]

Read detail news TEHERAN (AFP) – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that war was not essential to achieve the destruction of Israel, Iran’s state news agency IRNA reported. ‘The destruction of the Zionist regime does not necessitate making war,’ he said in a speech during a tour of north-east Iran. ‘If [...]

Read detail news Sun Apr 22, 2012 2:27pm BST (Corrects to killing of Bin Laden in paragraph 6) By Marcus George DUBAI, April 22 (Reuters) – Iran’s military has started to build a copy of a U.S. surveillance drone captured last year after breaking the software encryption, Iranian media reported on Sunday. General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, head of the Revolutionary [...]

Read detail news That is because though Iran finds itself under increased financial pressure from tightening sanctions, officials here say their fundamental approach has essentially worked. In continually pushing forward the nuclear activities — increasing enrichment and building a bunker mountain enrichment facility — Iran has in effect forced the West to accept a program it insists [...]

Read detail news Enlarge Image FILE – In this Friday, Aug. 13, 2004 satellite image provided by DigitalGlobe and the Institute for Science and International Security shows the military complex at Parchin, Iran, 30 kilometers (about 19 miles) southeast of Tehran. Iran has made no secret of its hopes for the next round of nuclear negotiations with world powers: [...]

Read detail news Sydney (Platts)–8May2012/202 am EDT/602 GMT Iran is accepting Chinese currency for some of the crude oil it supplies to China, partly as a consequence of US sanctions aimed at limiting Tehran’s nuclear program, industry sources in Beijing and Kuwait as well as Dubai-based bankers told UK business newspaper The Financial Times. Tehran is spending renminbi, [...]

Read detail news TEHRAN, Iran—Final results for many constituencies in Iran’s parliamentary runoff elections show conservative rivals of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad winning a solid majority of seats and cementing their hold on the legislature. The parliament has no direct control over major policy matters like Iran’s nuclear program, but it can influence the run-up to the [...]

Read detail news The agency, which advises 28 industrialized nations on energy policy, said the soaring global oil supply from OPEC countries and the United States far outpaced global demand, curbed by poor economic activity in developed nations. The agency said global oil supply rose to 91 million barrels a day in April, an increase of 600,000 barrels a day from March. But it said [...]

Read detail news The lead negotiator for the six-nation group bargaining with Iran over its contentious uranium enrichment program said Friday that she hoped to achieve “the beginnings of the end” of the dispute at the next meeting, to be held in Baghdad on May 23. The negotiator, Catherine Ashton, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, did not offer specifics about the [...]

Read detail news Enlarge Image Israeli President Shimon Peres, center, smiles as he mingles with members of the Jewish-Canadian community at the Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue, Thursday, May 10, 2012 in Montreal.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz MONTREAL – Israeli President Shimon Peres says he can’t imagine the free world agreeing with the idea of [...]