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Topic: sanctions

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October 6, 2012
11:15 pm

Saeed Jalili (photo credit: CC BY Parmida76, Flickr)

Iran denies reports of ‘nine-step plan’ to end uranium production

No new proposals made outside P5+1 talks, says Tehran’s top nuclear negotiator; Panetta: Iran must engage seriously with the international community

By Yifa Yaakov and AP

October 6, 2012
7:34 pm

Iranian technicians work at a facility producing uranium fuel for a planned heavy-water nuclear reactor, outside Isfahan, in 2009. (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi)

In goodwill gesture, Iran shifts uranium to fuel stock

Experts say Tehran has converted over a third of its most highly enriched uranium into powder for medical research reactor

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI

October 3, 2012
1:59 pm

Iran's main bazaar in 2011. (photo credit: CC BY kamshots, Flickr)

Iranians rally against regime in Tehran as currency crumbles

Police use tear gas to disperse protesters after rial hits new low; shopkeepers in politically sensitive bazaar shutter stores

By Joshua Davidovich and AP

October 3, 2012
12:38 am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Jerusalem in 2011 (photo credit: Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO/Flash90)

Cold-shouldered by the US, Netanyahu shifting anti-Iran campaign focus to Europe

Prime minister to visit EU leaders before the end of the year, having failed to win Obama’s support for a military strike

By Sam Ser and AP

October 2, 2012
7:37 am

A bazaar in Tehran in 2011 (photo credit: CC-BY Kamshots, Flickr)

Washington points to rial’s drop as proof sanctions on Iran are working

Currency falls 16 percent in one day as restrictions on Islamic Republic’s economy take toll

By Joshua Davidovich

September 29, 2012
9:56 pm

Israeli PM Benyamin Netanyahu and Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi in Jerusalem on September 05, 2012. (photo credit: Moshe Milner/ GPO/Flash90)

Italian FM: Israeli attack against Iran is a concrete possibility

Giulio Terzi warns of ‘grave backlash,’ says European pressure could jump start negotiations

September 21, 2012
3:51 am

US ambassador to the UN Susan Rice (photo credit: Courtesy UN)

West accuses Iran of shipping arms to Syria

United Nations ‘can’t be complacent’ about Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, US ambassador says

September 14, 2012
4:01 am

Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah speaking on Wednesday via video feed. (image capture from Al Manar News video)

In largely symbolic move, US sanctions Hezbollah leader

From the web US Treasury freezes Hassan Nasrallah’s assets in US banks for helping Syria crush anti-government protests

September 10, 2012
2:05 pm

Moscow's Red Square (photo credit: Anna Kaplan/Flash90/File)

US opposes Chabad bid to fine Russia for failing to return Jewish archives

In 2010, a NYC court ruled that Russia must return books and manuscripts, but it has refused to do so

By Frederic J. Frommer

September 8, 2012
11:16 pm

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Vladivostok, Russia, in September. (photo credit: Jim Watson/AP)

Russia rebuffs Clinton on Syria, Iran penalties

The answer is engagement and not isolation, says Lavrov, warning against ‘extraterritorial’ consequences of sanctions which could hurt Russian businesses

September 5, 2012
1:20 am

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during a ceremony at the nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz. (photo credit: AP/Hasan Sarbakhshian/File)

Ahmadinejad: West has launched sanctions war against Iran

‘There are barriers in transferring money, there are barriers in selling oil,’ president says in TV interview. ‘It’s an all-out, hidden, heavy war.’

By Nasser Karimi

August 24, 2012
2:42 am

Textile merchants wait for customers in Tehran's old main bazaar on Saturday, July 14, 2012. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Beyond oil battle, sanctions hit Iran’s merchants

Leaders say sanctions are ineffective, but Islamic Republic’s ailing economy says otherwise

By Brian Murphy and Nasser Karimi

August 19, 2012
5:49 am

An Iraqi bank branch. (illustrative photo: CC-BY-SA Yesar Almaleki, Flickr)

US says Iraqis helping Iran skirt sanctions — NY Times

From the web Network of Iraqi banking institutions have kept money flowing into Iran, despite sanctions over its nuclear program

August 14, 2012
1:18 am

A Free Syrian Army soldier after firing a recoilless rifle during clashes with Syrian government forces in the village of Mukhtariya in the suburbs of Homs, Syria. (photo credit: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights via AP video)

Syria shows the limits of sanctions’ effectiveness

Because Assad cares more about his own survival than his people’s suffering, a ‘war without bullets’ may be backfiring

By Robert H. Reid

August 12, 2012
4:36 am

An Iranian cargo ship in Malta last year. (photo credit: CC-BY-SA Sludgepuller, Flickr)

Zanzibar admits it re-flagged Iranian cargo ships

From the web Semi-autonomous region claims it was misled by agent to fly Tanzanian flag, Reuters reports

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