THE IRANIAN FILE

Iran has stopped its oil exports to Germany and declared a ban on imports from 100 European Union companies, in response to its banking and oil sanctions, the Iranian media reported on Wednesday.

Iran will not abandon its nuclear achievements in the upcoming negotiations with the powers of the 5 +1 group, said Sunday, a senior Iranian official, according to IRNA news agency.

The European Union (EU) decided on Thursday to prohibit access to the international payments system by Iranian institutions as part of financial sanctions due to Tehran's nuclear program.

Catherine Ashton, the European Union diplomacy chief on Tuesday proposed a resumption of negotiations between the major powers and Iran over Tehran's nuclear program. She hoped to hold a "constructive dialogue".

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud said that "unnamed hands" targeting Islam and the Arabs are behind recent events in the region.

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

After halting oil sales to Britain and France, Iran on Monday threatened to stop oil sales to other European Union member states if the bloc continues its "hostile policies."

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

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.

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

Prince Turki al-Faisal, a US-educated former Saudi intelligence chief and former Saudi envoy to the US, has sent a stern warning to Iran.

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.

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

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.

Iran has offered to hold a new round of talks about its nuclear program with the six world powers

Iran on Thursday dismissed the U.S. warning over the possible closing the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran announced on Saturday that it started ten days of naval maneuvers east of Hormuz Strait.

According to informed sources inside Iran, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has recently ordered the arrest of a number of prominent members of the Revolutionary Guards.

A senior Iranian military official said the army had shot down a remote-controlled reconnaissance drone operated by the US military in the eastern part of the country.

UK Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Wednesday that he demanded Iranian diplomats to leave London within 48 hours.

Iranian protesters stormed the British embassy and another British diplomatic compound in the Iranian capital on Tuesday.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has warned that if any country launches an attack on Iran, it must be ready to “receive firm slaps and fists of steel”

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that the "enemies have not been able to prevent progress and development in the Islamic Iran."

Israeli newspaper: Israel has developed a plan to strike Iran's nuclear facilities

Alarabiya TV channel reported Wednesday that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered the preparing of a team assigned to carry out assassinations