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US to seek sanctions on Iran in ‘weeks’
The US said it would press for the United Nations to agree new sanctions against Iran within “weeks”, arguing that Tehran’s latest moves to drive forward its nuclear programme had alienated key Security Council members
Iran increases uranium enrichment
Iran has announced that it has started to make higher grade uranium just as western powers warned that such a move would inevitably lead to fresh sanctions against the Islamic regime
Dubai offered an alternative future
The city’s fall from grace last year has prompted some soul searching and one view sees the government taking a smaller role and retreating from private-sector territory
China overtakes EU as Iran’s top trade partner
China has overtaken the European Union to become Iran’s largest trading partner, underlining China’s reluctance to agree to any further economic sanctions on Tehran
Al-Qaeda offshoot calls for fresh US attacks
The Yemen-based al-Qaeda group that claimed responsibility for the failed Christmas day attack on a passenger jet in the US has called for further attacks against American and Jewish interests
Iran to start work on 20% nuclear fuel
Iran’s president has ordered the country’s Atomic Energy Organisation to start enriching uranium at higher grade, in a provocative move that could bring more penalties for the Islamic regime
Russia says west's fears over Iran are 'valid'
Russia described western anxiety over Iran's nuclear programme as "valid" yesterday, raising US hopes that Moscow will agree the passage of a United Nations resolution...
How close is Tehran to developing a nuclear bomb?
What has Iran done to trigger fresh alarm about its nuclear programme? Iran has started to produce a higher grade of enriched uranium at its processing plant in...
Ahmadi-Nejad returns to confrontation
For months western diplomats have had to contend with an Iranian political landscape so confusing that Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad – heartily loathed in the US and Europe – appeared to be more interested in dialogue than almost any other significant figure in the country
Blair says public desires Iraq ‘conspiracy’
The Iraq war inquiry is humouring the desire of the British public to ‘uncover some great conspiracy’, Tony Blair said on Monday, as the inquiry confirmed that it might recall him to testify
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