- 22:52 07/02/2012 Vladimir Yevseyev for RIA Novosti, from Herzliya (Israel) and Moscow
The Iranian problem is no longer confined to its nuclear program due to broader developments in the region. Saudi Arabia, Iran and Turkey are vying for regional leadership. Egypt is becoming increasingly destabilized, and the role of the United States in the region is waning.
- 19:09 07/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 7 (RIA Novosti)
The Iranian parliament said on Tuesday it could pass legislation to stop oil exports to some EU states in response to their efforts to enforce sanctions against Iran, Press TV reported.
- 14:15 06/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 6 (RIA Novosti)
Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Haled al-Halifa on Monday dismissed rumors that the United States plans to attack Iran over its controversial nuclear program.
- 06:16 06/02/2012 WASHINGTON, February 6 (RIA Novosti)
In an interview with NBC on Sunday night, U.S. President Barack Obama said he saw no grounds for rumors that Iran may be planning an attack on the United States.
- 13:38 05/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 5 (RIA Novosti)
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck near the Bushehr nuclear power plant in south Iran, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its website on Sunday.
- 04:10 04/02/2012 WASHINGTON, February 4 (RIA Novosti)
The United States believes there is still time to pursue diplomacy and economic sanctions in search for ways to stop Iran from developing its nuclear program, U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said.
- 11:27 03/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 3 (RIA Novosti)
There is a growing possibility that Israel may attack Iranian nuclear facilities over the next few months, U.S. media reported.
- 18:48 02/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 2 (RIA Novosti)
Iran’s budget for the new fiscal year starting on March 20 should be cut by 5.6 percent and defense spending more than doubled, the Mehr news agency cited the Islamic Republic’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying.
- 18:38 02/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 2 (RIA Novosti)
The European parliament on Thursday called on Russia and China to back UN Security Council sanctions against Iran and cease assisting its nuclear activities.
- 17:51 02/02/2012 TEL AVIV, February 2 (RIA Novosti)
Iran has four tons of 20 percent enriched uranium, enough to make four crude nuclear bombs in a year, Israeli Military Intelligence head, Maj.Gen. Aviv Kochavi said on Thursday.
- 17:19 02/02/2012 RIA Novosti political commentator Dmitry Kosyrev
Those who hoped that the IAEA visit to Iran would open the door to resuming talks on Tehran’s nuclear programs must be disappointed. Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency spent three days in Iran, whose news agency published only a few short notices about their visit.
- 14:21 30/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 30 (RIA Novosti)
Iranian specialists plan to use domestically-produced fuel rods for a research reactor in the capital Tehran in just a few months, Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Sunday.
- 15:30 29/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 29 (RIA Novosti)
An EU embargo on oil imports from Iran may push world oil prices to $150 per barrel, the head of Iran’s state oil company said on Sunday.
- 08:52 29/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 29 (RIA Novosti)
A delegation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) arrived in Iran to discuss the Islamic Republic’s controversial nuclear program, the Iranian media reported on Sunday.
- 22:55 28/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 28 (RIA Novosti)
The Iranian government may ban imports of all products from Europe as an answer for the European Union which voted against oil imports this week, Iranian Press TV channel reported on Saturday.
- 13:19 28/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 28 (RIA Novosti)
Pentagon is stepping up efforts to make a bomb capable of destroying Iran's most heavily fortified underground facilities, the Wall Street Journal said on Saturday referring to U.S. officials briefed on the plan.
- 09:34 28/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 28 (RIA Novosti)
The Pentagon is going to send a large floating base to the Middle East, The Washington Post said.
- 12:20 27/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 27 (RIA Novosti, Howard Gethin)
The European Union agreed this week to introduce a ban on Iranian oil imports to the EU. Iran’s response was unequivocal.
- 10:51 26/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 26 (RIA Novosti)
Sanctions on Iran by the OECD states could push oil prices up 20-30 percent to $140 per barrel unless alternative supplies from developing countries come on line, the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday.
- 07:11 25/01/2012 WASHINGTON, January 25 (RIA Novosti)
The United States will use all available options to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union address on Tuesday.
- 05:32 24/01/2012 WASHINGTON, January 24 (RIA Novosti)
The United States will continue to impose sanctions against Iran over its controversial nuclear program, U.S. President Barack Obama said.
- 19:37 23/01/2012 BRUSSELS, January 23 (RIA Novosti)
The European Union slapped an embargo on Iranian oil supplies on Monday, the Council of the European Union said in a press statement.
- 07:53 21/01/2012 WASHINGTON, January 21 (RIA Novosti)
The United States expect the European Union to take steps to pressure Iran back into negotiations on its controversial nuclear activity, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said.
- 16:56 20/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 20 (RIA Novosti)
French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday urged “more decisive” sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program but warned that time was running out to avoid military intervention.
- 13:04 20/01/2012 RIA Novosti military commentator Konstantin Bogdanov
The United States has been massing naval forces off Iran’s shores. Since November the media has been filled with rumors about an imminent military strike on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure.
- 10:51 20/01/2012
A second Iranian uranium enrichment plant has opened near the city of Qom
- 15:09 19/01/2012 ANKARA, January 19 (RIA Novosti)
Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi on Thursday urged the West to think twice before introducing an oil embargo against his country over the situation around the Strait of Hormuz.
- 19:18 18/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 18 (Marc Bennetts for RIA Novosti)
Russia warned that an attack on Iran would be a "catastrophe" for the region and said world powers should adopt a policy of non-intervention in the Middle East and North Africa.
- 17:05 18/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 18 (Marc Bennetts for RIA Novosti)
An attack on Iran by Western powers could cause an unpredictable “chain reaction” throughout the region, Russia’s foreign minister warned.
- 20:23 16/01/2012
The United States and the United Kingdom continue to build up their regional military presence in the wake of Iranian statements about the possibility of blocking the Strait of Hormuz.
- 18:40 16/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 16 (RIA Novosti)
Iran has arrested several people in the killing of a nuclear scientist last week that Tehran blames on Israel and the United States, parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani told state Al-Alam TV, Tehran Times daily said on Monday.
- 13:52 16/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 16 (RIA Novosti)
Iran has received and is studying a letter from the U.S. on a potential dispute over the Strait of Hormuz, the key waterway that Tehran has threatened to close in response to sanctions, Iran’s Fars News Agency said on Monday, citing a Foreign Ministry spokesman.
- 18:33 13/01/2012 Political commentator Andrei Murtazin specially for RIA Novosti
Japan is supporting the European Union's intention to impose an embargo on Iranian crude oil imports, Japan’s Finance Minister Jun Azumi said on Thursday.
- 03:12 13/01/2012 WASHINGTON, January 13 (RIA Novosti)
The United States has unilaterally imposed sanctions on three foreign energy firms involved in the provision of refined petroleum products to Iran
- 02:04 13/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 13 (RIA Novosti)
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has accused the U.S. and Israeli intelligence services of the involvement in the killing of an Iranian nuclear scientist
- 15:36 12/01/2012 Weekly column by Fyodor Lukyanov
The January/February 2012 issue of the magazine Foreign Affairs features an article with the shocking title: Time to Attack Iran: Why a Strike Is the Least Bad Option. It is indicative of the current mood and may set the tone for the rest of the year.
- 11:17 12/01/2012 TOKYO, January 12 (RIA Novosti)
Japan will take steps to reduce its oil imports from Iran, Japanese Finance Minister Jun Azumi said on Thursday.
- 12:38 11/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 11 (RIA Novosti) –
An Iranian scientist who died in a car bomb explosion in the capital Tehran on Wednesday was the deputy director of the country's largest uranium enrichment plant, according to Iran’s IRNA news agency.
- 05:20 11/01/2012 WASHINGTON, January 11 (RIA Novosti)
Washington slammed on Tuesday the Iranian government’s decision to begin uranium enrichment operations at a facility near the city of Qom in the country’s north.
- 01:35 10/01/2012 MOSCOW / WASHINGTON, January 10 (RIA Novosti)
The International Atomic Energy Agency officially confirmed that Iran has started enriching uranium to the 20-percent level, which can easily be turned into fissile warhead material.
- 16:04 08/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 8 (RIA Novosti)
An underground nuclear power plant in Iran will achieve full generation capacity in early February, Iranian newspaper Kayhan quoted the country’s atomic chief as saying.
- 17:16 05/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 5 (RIA Novosti)
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev during a telephone conversation on Thursday that Tehran backed Moscow's diplomatic efforts to settle the dispute over Iranian nuclear program, the Kremlin said.
- 08:26 04/01/2012 WASHINGTON, January 4 (RIA Novosti)
The United States on Tuesday dismissed Iran’s warning to keep the U.S. aircraft carrier, which recently left the area, away from the Gulf.
- 18:05 02/01/2012 PARIS, January 2 (RIA Novosti)
France considers Iran’s test of a long-range missile as “a bad signal”, Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero said.
- 13:44 02/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 2 (RIA Novosti)
Iran has successfully test-fired its second long-range missile during the naval exercises in the Persian Gulf, the Iranian state television reported on Monday.
- 11:51 02/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 2 (RIA Novosti)
Iran has successfully test-fired a long-range missile during its naval exercises in the Persian Gulf, the official IRNA news agency reported on Monday.
- 12:57 31/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 31 (RIA Novosti)
A high-ranking Iranian Navy official has denied the country test-launched a wide-range missile during sea exercises in the Persian Gulf and said the launch was postponed, state Iranian news agencies reported on Saturday.
- 09:50 31/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 31 (RIA Novosti)
The Iranian military test-launched a wide-range missile on Saturday, Fars news agency reported.
- 17:42 28/12/2011 PARIS, December 28 (RIA Novosti)
The French foreign ministry called on Iran to observe international laws and refrain from blocking the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world's most important oil routes.
- 19:47 27/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 27 (RIA Novosti)
Iran's first vice-president warned on Tuesday that no oil will be permitted to pass through the crucial Strait of Hormuz if the West imposes sanctions on Iran's oil exports, the country's official news agency IRNA reported.
- 19:44 26/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 26 (RIA Novosti)
Iran has capability to disrupt any military plots the U.S. may seek to implement against it, Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi said on Monday.
- 13:01 23/12/2011 Vladimir Yevseyev* for RIA Novosti, Tehran-Moscow
Iran has issued an invitation to IAEA inspectors to visit the country, the first such move since the agency published its report on the status of Iran's nuclear program in November.
- 14:49 21/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 21 (RIA Novosti)
Iran’s first nuclear power plant, Bushehr, will reach its nominal generating capacity in March 2012, Iran’s news agency ISNA said on Wednesday referring to Energy Minister Majid Namjou.
- 05:41 13/12/2011 WASHINGTON, December 13 (RIA Novosti)
The Western powers will impose a fresh round of sanctions against Iran early next year, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said during his visit to the United States.
- 16:12 09/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 9 (RIA Novosti)
There is no military component in Iran’s nuclear program, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Friday.
- 16:39 01/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 1 (RIA Novosti)
Iran’s law enforcement agencies have released eleven students detained for attacking the British Embassy in Tehran, Iranian media reported on Thursday.
- 01:42 01/12/2011 BRUSSELS, December 1 (RIA Novosti)
The foreign ministers of the 27 European Union member states are expected to approve the extension of sanctions against Iran, Syria and Belarus during their regular meeting in Brussels on Thursday
- 18:51 30/11/2011 LONDON, November 30 (RIA Novosti)
The United Kingdom has expelled all Iranian diplomats from its territory after the British Embassy in Tehran was stormed by a crowd, British Foreign Secretary William Hague announced on Wednesday.
- 13:45 30/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 30 (RIA Novosti)
The U.K. has evacuated all diplomatic staff from Iran following Tuesday’s attack on its embassy in Tehran by Iranian protesters, local media reported on Wednesday.
- 19:59 29/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 29 (RIA Novosti)
Dozens of Iranian protesters stormed the British Embassy in Tehran on Tuesday in protest against sanctions imposed earlier this month by Britain on the Islamic Republic over its controversial nuclear program.
- 11:14 22/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 22 (RIA Novosti)
Sanctions by Western countries against Iran over its disputed nuclear program have gone beyond their stated non-proliferation goals, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
- 09:21 22/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 22 (RIA Novosti)
The U.S., Britain and Canada have imposed new sanctions against Iran over its disputed nuclear program in a move that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described as a "significant ratcheting-up of pressure.”
- 23:16 20/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 20 (RIA Novosti)
Iran announced its readiness to develop cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) if the agency “balances its approach” to the Islamic republic, ISNA news agency reported on Sunday, citing Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi.
- 06:42 20/11/2011 NEW YORK, November 20 (RIA Novosti)
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has refused to say whether Israel is planning a preemptive strike on Iran.
- 04:54 19/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 19 (RIA Novosti)
The International Atomic Energy Agency's resolution on Iran's controversial nuclear program was "unprofessional, illegal and politicized," Press TV quoted Iran's envoy to the IAEA as saying.
- 20:46 18/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 18 (RIA Novosti)
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors on Friday passed a resolution on Iran, drafted by a group of international mediators, a diplomatic source said.
- 19:15 18/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 18 (RIA Novosti)
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts may soon accept Tehran’s invitation to inspect Iran’s nuclear facilities, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Friday.
- 15:53 18/11/2011 VIENNA, November 18 (RIA Novosti)
Italy, Japan and 10 other countries joined in on the draft resolution by the Iran Six that is expected to be submitted to the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors on Friday.
- 20:55 17/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 17 (RIA Novosti)
Russia hopes the new resolution on Iran, agreed by a group of international mediators, will be adopted on Friday, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday.
- 17:05 17/11/2011 VIENNA, November 17 (RIA Novosti)
A group of international mediators on Iran is planning to present a draft resolution on Iran’s nuclear dossier to the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors, a source said on Thursday.
- 15:10 17/11/2011 VIENNA, November 17 (RIA Novosti)
The information contained in the latest report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the military dimension of Iran's nuclear program is credible, the IAEA chief said on Thursday.
- 13:38 15/11/2011 Vladimir Yevseyev for RIA Novosti
In the last few months, a large-scale psychological war has been launched against Iran. Respectable Western publications are carrying intimidating reports about Iran's military plans, its success in developing nuclear weapons and its terrorist schemes. Is this strategy justified and does it increase the likelihood of a new war in the Middle East?
- 14:23 14/11/2011 KHABAROVSK, November 14 (RIA Novosti)
The option of sanctions against Iran over its disputed nuclear program is exhausted and the issue should be solved by talks, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.
- 19:17 10/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 10 (RIA Novosti)
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Thursday any military action against the Islamic Republic would meet a ferocious response.
- 17:56 10/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 10 (RIA Novosti)
Russia is studying an Iranian proposal to build more reactors at the Bushehr nuclear power plant, the head of Russia's state-controlled nuclear corporation, Rosatom, said on Thursday.
- 13:31 10/11/2011 RIA Novosti military commentator Konstantin Bogdanov
Iran is being accused of implementing military nuclear programs. Such is the interpretation of the IAEA report on the Iranian nuclear industry, which has gained traction in the last few days.
- 21:59 09/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 9 (RIA Novosti)
Moscow lashed out at the IAEA’s latest report on Iran Wednesday, saying it undermines the international effort to defuse tensions around the Islamic republic’s nuclear program and holds it guilty without cause.
- 15:31 09/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 9 (RIA Novosti)
Iranian media quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying on Wednesday that his country would not retreat from its nuclear ambitions.
- 23:09 08/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 8 (RIA Novosti)
Iran continued carrying out nuclear weapons research after 2003, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a report released on Tuesday, CNN reported.
- 14:37 08/11/2011 YEREVAN, November 8 (RIA Novosti)
Iran would be upfront with the world about any plans to produce nuclear weapons, the Islamic Republic's Foreign Minister said on Tuesday.
- 07:34 08/11/2011 WASHINGTON, November 8 (RIA Novosti)
U.S. President Barack Obama has renewed the 1979 financial sanctions against Iran, the White House reported.
- 14:53 07/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 7 (RIA Novosti)
A Russian nuclear physicist could have played a key role in helping Iran to come close to developing nuclear weapons, The Washington Post said on Monday.
- 23:19 05/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 5 (RIA Novosti)
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said that the U.S. put pressure on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and noted that the organization is driven by political considerations in the analysis of the Islamic nuclear program, Iran’s Press TV reported on Saturday.
- 01:59 05/11/2011 TEL AVIV, November 5 (RIA Novosti)
Israeli President Shimon Peres said he believed a military strike against Iran was a more likely option than a diplomatic solution to the country's nuclear standoff.
- 05:05 04/11/2011 WASHINGTON, November 4 (RIA Novosti)
The Obama administration continues its efforts to resolve the Iranian nuclear problem through diplomacy and does not seek a military confrontation with Tehran
- 22:05 21/10/2011 MOSCOW, October 21 (RIA Novosti)
The negotiating process of the Iran Six (Russia, the United States, Britain, France, Germany and China) on a draft Security Council resolution to expand sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program has halted but Russia hopes to revive it, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday in a radio interview.
- 15:24 17/10/2011 MOSCOW, October 17 (RIA Novosti)
Iran has manufactured the first batch of uranium yellowcake, the raw material used for nuclear fuel production, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Monday.
- 08:59 16/10/2011 NEW YORK, October 16 (RIA Novosti)
U.S. President Barack Obama is pressing United Nations nuclear inspectors to disclose classified intelligence information on Iran’s nuclear weapons technology, The New York Times reported on Sunday.
- 23:02 28/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 28 (RIA Novosti)
Russia has returned to Iran a prepayment it received for S-300 surface-to-air missile systems it ultimately refused to deliver, the IRNA news agency reported on Wednesday.
- 15:30 22/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 22 (RIA Novosti)
Iran is in talks with Russia to build new nuclear facilities, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday.
- 20:11 19/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 19 (RIA Novosti, Ekaterina Chernyaeva)
The period of global domination of the United States should come to an end, the head of Iran's Supreme National Council said on Monday.
- 19:09 19/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 19 (RIA Novosti, Ekaterina Chernyaeva)
Iranian-Russian energy relations should be cooperative, not competitive, Iran's Supreme National Council head said on Monday.
- 04:48 12/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 12 (RIA Novosti)
In his speech dedicated to the tenth anniversary of September 11 terrorist attacks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Iran's nuclear program was a serious threat to global security.
- 18:39 06/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 6 (RIA Novosti)
Iran's first nuclear power plant in Bushehr will enter its pre-launch phase on September 12 in the presence of Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko, Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Tuesday.
- 04:38 06/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 6 (RIA Novosti)
Iran is ready to allow the UN nuclear watchdog to fully supervise its nuclear activities for five years if sanctions against Tehran are lifted, Iranian nuclear chief Fereydoun Abbasi said in an interview with the ISNA news agency.
- 18:15 05/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 5 (RIA Novosti)
Iran's first nuclear power plant at Bushehr has fed its first kilowatts of electricity into the national grid, the plant's constructor said.
- 21:43 02/09/2011 WASHINGTON, September 2 (RIA Novosti)
Iran's envoy to the UN on Friday urged the international community to reject nuclear weapons and impose a total ban on nuclear tests.
- 21:35 31/08/2011 PARIS, August 31 (RIA Novosti)
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday that a preventive strike on Iran could lead to a crisis in the region and called on world powers to toughen their sanctions on Tehran instead.
- 22:55 30/08/2011 RIA Novosti military commentator Konstantin Bogdanov
Iran has acknowledged that it possesses new technologies that could bring it closer to developing nuclear weapons and more advanced missiles.
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