Iran

The Islamic Republic has denied international inspectors access to suspected nuclear sites.

Iran stopped selling oil to the French and British oil companies, said Sunday the spokesman for the Iranian Ministry of Petroleum, Alireza Nikzad.

The Kuwaiti newspaper "Al Jareeda", citing senior Israeli sources said, Israel thwarted an assassination operation targeting its defense minister Ehud Barak while he was in Singapore earlier this week.

Terror attemps against Israeli targets in India and Georgia and claims by "Zionist regime" about Iran's role in these terrorist operations is another phase of psychological war against Tehran

Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has assured that any foreign military intervention in Syria would lead to the "explosion" of the entire region.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad presented a new budget to the Majlis on Wednesday.

The Iranian government on Sunday warned that the EU oil embargo would lead to a significant price increase.

Syria's external links: As the Syrian 'lion' rages and the regime's clampdown on opposition forces scores an alarming death-toll, the media is ridden with questions addressing the peculiar deadlock or impasse in this Arab Spring country. Since international players often seem to 'help' to determine the fate of Arab regimes, it may be prudent to examine who exactly is set to profit from this regime's seeming inevitable demise, or else retention of power should the Arab League's (shaky) Peace Plan be implemented. Which countries of the region and transregionally are praying for Al Assad's removal, and which would far rather he hung around?

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad' on Thursday slammed the EU decision to ban Iranian oil imports

The EU countries agreed on Monday morning on an oil embargo against Iran.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu does not trust President Obama

The commander of Iran's Qods Force, Brigadier General Qassem Soleimani, has said Iran is present in southern Lebanon and Iraq and that these countries are acting in "this way or another" by the will of Tehran

The Iranian representative to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) on Sunday urged Arab countries not to increase production of crude oil in case of the EU embargo Iranian oil imports.

The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry Ramin Mehmanparast on Sunday said that America had sent a message to Tehran regarding the Strait of Hormuz.

Some parts of the Iranian media on Thursday called to take revenge against Israel after the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist yesterday.

A car bomb blast near a square in northern Tehran on Wednesday morning killed one university lecturer and injured two other people.

Iran has said it would block oil exports through the strait, a global chokepoint for crude shipments, if sanctions are imposed on its crude exports. Such a move could also force companies including Ford Motor, BASF and Caterpillar to seek safer routes for transporting items.

In the meantime oil prices stay high when a recession in the EU ought to be lowering them. This is good news for the Gulf Oil States, although they are always weary of being too offensive to Iran just in case the Western powers one day leave them on their own.

Despite the growing international isolation, Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) ended 2011 with a significant growth

The commander of the Iranian army, General Atallah Salehi on Tuesday warned the United States not to order the return to the Gulf area of an aircraft carrier.