The Iranian File

January 23, 2012

Iranian president
11:21 GMT

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

January 21, 2012

Jordan
11:26 GMT

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

January 18, 2012

Iranian president
09:54 GMT

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.

January 15, 2012

Iranian submarine
15:32 GMT

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.

January 11, 2012

Iran
07:04 GMT

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

January 3, 2012

Iranian drill
09:25 GMT

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.

December 31, 2011

Iran
15:50 GMT

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

December 29, 2011

Iran navy
13:32 GMT

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

December 24, 2011

Sayyari
10:49 GMT

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

December 13, 2011

Khamenei
15:33 GMT

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.

December 4, 2011

Drone
19:25 GMT

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.

November 30, 2011

Iranian embassy
20:33 GMT

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

November 29, 2011

Iran army
15:27 GMT

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

November 10, 2011

Khamenei
15:29 GMT

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”

November 9, 2011

Ahmadinejad
10:26 GMT

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