Iran has proposed a new round of talks with the West on its controversial nuclear program and delayed long-range missiles tests that it had said would take place Saturday. The state-run IRNA news agency quoted Iran’s National Security Adviser Saeed Jalili as saying he invited the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and […]
Iran Calls for New Nuclear Talks, Delays Missile Test
Posted December 31st, 2011 at 4:50 pm (UTC-5)
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Iran Proposes Nuclear Talks, Delays Missile Test
Posted December 31st, 2011 at 10:00 am (UTC-5)
Iran has proposed a new round of talks on its controversial nuclear program while apparently delaying long-range missiles tests that it had said would take place Saturday. The state-run IRNA news agency says nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili has invited the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany to “come back to talks.” […]
Report: Iran to Propose New Nuclear Talks
Posted December 31st, 2011 at 6:50 am (UTC-5)
Iran’s ambassador to Germany says his country is ready for a new round of talks with major world powers about Iran’s controversial nuclear program. The semi-official Mehr news agency reported Saturday that Ambassador Ali Reza Sheikh Attar says Iran’s top nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, will propose the talks in a letter to the European Union’s […]
Iran to Test Fire Long Range Missiles in Weekend Drill
Posted December 30th, 2011 at 10:15 am (UTC-5)
Iran says it will fire long-range missiles on Saturday as part of military exercises in the Gulf. The announcement on Friday was made on the heels of heightened tensions between Iran and Western powers over Tehran’s threat to block oil shipments through the strategic Strait of Hormuz. The semi-official Fars News agency quotes an Iranian […]
Iran Rejects US Warning Against Closing Strait of Hormuz
Posted December 29th, 2011 at 8:35 am (UTC-5)
Iran has rejected a U.S. warning against blocking oil shipments through the strategic Strait of Hormuz, as a war of words between the two countries continues. Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency Thursday quoted Revolutionary Guard commander Hossein Salami as saying Iran can carry out its own “defensive strategies.” Tehran threatened earlier this week to block […]
US Warns Iran Not to Close Key Oil Route
Posted December 28th, 2011 at 6:45 pm (UTC-5)
The United States has sharply warned Iran against any move to close the vital Strait of Hormuz, after Tehran threatened to block oil shipments coming through the waterway if the West imposes sanctions targeting the country’s crude oil exports. Pentagon press secretary George Little said Wednesday that “interference with the passage of vessels through the […]
US Will Not ‘Tolerate’ Disruption of Vital Oil Strait Traffic
Posted December 28th, 2011 at 12:50 pm (UTC-5)
The U.S. military says it will not tolerate disruptions in Strait of Hormuz traffic as Iran has threatened to block oil shipments coming through the waterway. A spokeswoman for the Bahrain-based U.S. Fifth Fleet told VOA that the flow of goods through the strait is “vital to regional and global prosperity.” Lieutenant Rebecca Rebarich said […]
Iran Threatens to Block Gulf Oil if Sanctions Applied
Posted December 28th, 2011 at 6:15 am (UTC-5)
Iran has threatened to block the shipment of oil through the Strait of Hormuz if Western governments try to impose sanctions on its petroleum exports in response to the country’s nuclear program. Iran’s navy chief told state television Wednesday that it would be easy to close off the strait, but that such action is not […]
Iran Threatens to Block Gulf Oil if Sanctions Applied
Posted December 27th, 2011 at 9:20 pm (UTC-5)
Iran has threatened to block the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz if Western governments attempt to impose sanctions on its petroleum exports in their dispute over its nuclear ambitions. The official Iranian news agency IRNA quoted Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi as saying that if Iranian oil is banned “then not a […]
Iran Denies US Accusation of Harboring Al-Qaida Financier
Posted December 25th, 2011 at 1:20 pm (UTC-5)
Iran is denying a U.S. accusation that it is harboring an al-Qaida financier suspected of moving money and terrorist recruits through Iran to al-Qaida bases in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The U.S. government announced a $10 million reward Thursday for information leading to the capture of the alleged al-Qaida operative, Syrian-born Yasin al-Suri, also known as […]
