- 16:11 22/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 22 (RIA Novosti)
The UN’s atomic watchdog said on Wednesday it failed to gain access to a key Iranian military site.
- 20:20 20/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 20 (RIA Novosti)
Iran launched on Monday four-day air defense drills to train protection of important national facilities, primarily nuclear facilities, Iran’s Fars news agency reported.
- 15:16 20/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 20 (RIA Novosti)
Between 90 and 100 kilograms of uranium have been enriched to 20 percent at a facility in the Iranian city of Natanz, the country’s news agency ISNA reported on Monday.
- 13:33 20/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 20 (RIA Novosti)
A high-level delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) arrived in the Iranian capital Tehran on Monday for talks on further cooperation.
- 17:46 19/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 19 (RIA Novosti)
Iran has stopped oil exports to British and French companies, the Islamic republic's oil ministry said on Sunday.
- 19:58 17/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 17 (RIA Novosti)
Pakistan will not provide any support to U.S. forces if the United States attacks Iran, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said in Islamabad at a press conference with the presidents of Afghanistan and Iran following a trilateral summit on Friday.
- 06:19 17/02/2012 WASHINGTON, February 17 (RIA Novosti)
The United States on Thursday extended its sanctions against Iran, the State Department reported.
- 18:54 16/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 16 (RIA Novosti)
Israel supports the use of all possible ways to stop Iran’s nuclear program, the country's ambassador to Russia Dorit Golender said on Thursday at a press conference.
- 13:05 16/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 16 (RIA Novosti)
Iran will counter any Western military action against it, Iran’s ambassador to Moscow said on Thursday.
- 23:06 15/02/2012 TEHRAN, February 15 (RIA Novosti, Marc Bennetts)
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad trumpeted on Wednesday major advances in the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, in a move likely to further raise the stakes in its tense stand-off with the West.
- 19:53 15/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 15 (RIA Novosti)
Russia has ruled out backing Western sanctions against Iran, saying they are aimed at regime change in Tehran.
- 19:30 15/02/2012 TEHRAN, February 15 (RIA Novosti)
Iran has launched “a cascade of domestically-made uranium enrichment centrifuges” of the latest generation at a nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, Fars news agency reported on Wednesday, citing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
- 17:49 15/02/2012 TEHRAN, February 18 (RIA Novosti)
The Iranian Petroleum Ministry on Wednesday rejected media reports that Iran had stopped oil supplies to six European countries in response to the latest sanctions imposed by the EU against its energy and banking sectors.
- 16:58 15/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 15 (RIA Novosti)
Iran has stopped oil supplies to six European countries in response to the latest sanctions imposed by the European Union against its energy and banking sectors, Iran's state-run Press TV reported on Wednesday.
- 16:51 15/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 15 (RIA Novosti)
Iran has inserted its first homemade nuclear fuel rods into a research reactor in Tehran, Iranian state-run Press TV reported on Wednesday.
- 20:00 14/02/2012 TEHRAN, February 14 (RIA Novosti, Marc Bennetts)
Iran will insert its first domestically-produced nuclear fuel rods into a research reactor in Tehran on Wednesday, a top Iranian official told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.
- 19:37 14/02/2012 TEHRAN, February 14 (RIA Novosti)
Iran will insert the first nuclear fuel rods produced in the country into a research reactor in Tehran on Wednesday, a top Iranian official told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.
- 13:31 14/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 14 (RIA Novosti)
The situation surrounding Iran's controversial nuclear program is likely to come to a head by the summer, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Nikolai Makarov said.
- 18:56 13/02/2012 Marc Bennetts, RIA Novosti
The streets of Tehran were as bustling as ever on Monday, betraying little sign of mounting international tensions over Iran’s disputed nuclear program. But Iranians were split on whether the Islamic Republic was on the brink of war.
- 15:34 13/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 13 (RIA Novosti)
Moscow has called to use non-military means for solving the Iranian nuclear issue, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.
- 10:30 13/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 13 (RIA Novosti)
The Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned Azerbaijan’s ambassador on Sunday, accusing the country of colluding with the Israeli intelligence in the killing of an Iranian nuclear scientist last month.
- 14:35 11/02/2012 TEHRAN, February 11 (Marc Bennetts, RIA Novosti)
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday the West should cease speaking to Iran “in the language of force” if it wants to resolve the dispute over Tehran’s nuclear program.
- 19:26 10/02/2012 NEW DELHI, February 10 (RIA Novosti)
The European Union has asked New Delhi to use its influence to draw Iran back into talks over its disputed nuclear ambitions, Indian TV channels said on Friday.
- 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.
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