Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran says the recent steep slide in oil prices and worsening global financial crisis will be studied carefully before it makes a proposal on output reductions for OPEC, the Islamic Republic's OPEC governor said on Sunday.
Curly's Corner Shop, the blog! (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Blogosphere starting to find it’s voice I guess we are lucky to have repealed the death penalty in the UK (although some would disagree), but how would you feel if the vicar of your local parish church in South Shields decided that he no longer wished to carry out the role? No, it probably wouldn’t bother you [...]
BBC News (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
A senior Iranian opposition figure announces he will challenge Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in next summer's presidential election.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will ask for an oil output cut at an OPEC emergency meeting scheduled for mid-November in Vienna, Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari told an Iranian newspaper.
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
The US and its allies are discussing a "coalition of the willing" that would impose sanctions on Iran's energy and financial sectors without UN backing as concerns increase about Tehran's accelerating nuclear programme and a possible Israeli military response
Times Online - Guest contributors (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
Some key decision makers in Israel fear that unless they attack Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities in the next few months, while George W Bush is still president, there will not be another period when they can rely on the United States as being anywhere near as supportive in the aftermath of a unilateral attack.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
LONDON (Reuters) - Iran condemned a decision by British authorities Saturday to release from prison the only surviving member of a group of gunmen who seized the Iranian embassy in London in 1980. Several newspapers reported Friday that Fowzi Nejad, 50, would be freed within days after serving 27 years in jail.
Israelated (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Desert Rat Ramblings (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Oh! and just for the record, Obama STILL has on his website the following: Diplomacy: Obama supports tough, direct presidential diplomacy with Iran without preconditions. Just in case they take it down or change it, I have captured it here with today's date. DR
Never Yet Melted (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
older photo of MV Iran Deyanat in different paint After Somali pirates hijacked the Iranian freighter MV Iran Deyanat (aka Deyant or Dianat) on August 21, 2008, as ransom negotiations proceeded, in late September, reports of strange illnesses striking down the pirates began appearing in the international press. South Africa Times 9/28: Somali pirates suffered skin burns, lost [...]
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
China wins Gold in Pairs Rapid, Takes Overall Lead Sunday, 12 October 2008 07:54 FIDE ( http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/3359-china-wins-gold-in-pairs-rapid-takes-overall-lead ) China take Gold, Vietnam Silver, and Iran Bronze. The Chinese duo of GM Ni Hua and Hou Yifan extended their dominance of the Pair Rapid event at the 1st World Minds Sports Games - winning Gold while...
Seriously Sandeep (Free subscription) | yesterday
Kanchan Gupta’s superb piece on why it won’t pay to give Iran the non-permanent security council seat. The foremost, nay only reason is the rabid Ahmadinejad, who thundered thus at the General Assembly. The dignity, integrity and rights of the American and European people are being played with by a small but deceitful number of [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
Eighteen years ago Rashin Soodmand's father was hanged in Iran for converting to Christianity. Now her brother is in a Mashad jail and expects to be executed under new religious laws brought in this summer. Alasdair Palmer reports.
Iran News Blog (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
The latest document covers the problem of detonating a nuclear device. Its suggestion that a Russian scientist was involved is the first evidence that foreign experts had a direct hand in Iran's nuclear programme. ... But the IAEA believes this individual was not working on behalf of the Russian authorities and was present in Iran on a freelance basis. After the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, some...
Solomonia (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
Kenneth Timmerman: French Official Scoffs at Idea of Negotiating With Iran...
