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Think tank: path to Iran nuke warhead 2-4 months
Iran could produce enough weapons-grade uranium to arm a nuclear bomb within two to four months but would still face serious "engineering challenges" ...
Iran says it blocks cyberattack on oil platforms
Iran says it has successfully blocked a cyberattack on the computer network of its offshore drilling platforms, a semiofficial news agency reported ...
Iran rulers eye currency mess from protected perch
Just as Iran's currency was rattling near bottom after a stunning free fall, officials in Tehran opened a trade exhibition that included advanced ...
Iran 'confidence' bid shifts uranium to fuel stock
In a bid to ease international concerns over its nuclear program, Iran has converted more than a third of Tehran's most highly enriched uranium into ...
Iran currency rebounds after protests
Iran's national currency is rebounding from record lows, days after protests flared in the country's largest display of anger at economic conditions ...
Iran police on watch after currency protests
Iran deployed riot police at key Tehran intersections on Thursday, after tensions flared over the nation's plunging currency in the most widespread ...
Iran leader calls Netanyahu's bomb prop 'childish'
Iran's president sneered on Tuesday at Israeli's presentation at the United Nations last week, calling the cartoon-style drawing of a bomb held up by ...
Iran president: 'Psychological' blows hit currency
Iran's president on Tuesday blamed the steep drop in Iran's currency on "psychological pressures" linked to Western sanctions over Tehran's nuclear ...
Iran's currency falls 16 percent in single day
Iran's currency has fallen 16 percent in a single day to hit a record low against the U.S. dollar and other foreign currencies in street trading.
Rare labor petition in Iran shows economic alarm
For weeks, a manifesto complaining about Iran's stumbling economy circulated in secret among factories and workshops. Organizers asked for signatures ...
Iran: Reuters chief convicted in 'ninja' dispute
A special media court found the Tehran bureau chief of the Thomson Reuters news agency guilty Sunday of "spreading lies" against the Islamic system ...
Iran swipe at Web brings angry reply
Iran's cyber monitors often tout their fight against the West's "soft war" of influence through the Web, but trying to block Google's popular Gmail ...
Iran condemns US for taking group off terror list
Iran condemned on Saturday the Obama administration for taking an Iranian militant group formerly allied with Saddam Hussein off the U.S.
Iran vows enemies will not survive
An Iranian general has said that his country's enemies will not survive if they attack Iran's nuclear sites. A Friday report by the semiofficial ISNA ...
Israeli report says sanctions hitting Iran hard
A new Israeli government report published in local media on Thursday concludes that international sanctions are hitting Iran hard and called for ...
Ryan says foreign policy 'blowing up in our faces'
Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan criticized President Barack Obama on Wednesday over the protests in the Middle East, saying the region ...
Egypt's Morsi assumes major role in Mideast
Egypt's new President Mohammed Morsi assigned himself the heavyweight's role in the Middle East on Wednesday, declaring in his first speech to the ...
Iran's president leaves trail of guesses on future
Iran's president has no trouble making himself heard: rumbling through the U.N.'s annual world gathering this week with comments bashing ...
Iran unveils new long-range drone
Iranian military leaders gave details of a new long-range drone and test fired four anti-ship missiles Tuesday in a prelude to upcoming naval war ...
Iran ayatollah is poster boy for influence in Iraq
After years of growing influence, a new sign of Iran's presence in Iraq has hit the streets. Thousands of signs, that is, depicting Iran's supreme ...
Iran official says will boycott 2013 Oscars
Iran's culture minister said Monday that his country will boycott the 2013 Oscars in the wake of the anti-Islam video made in the United States that ...
Prophet film protesters clash with Greek police
Greek riot police used tear gas and pepper spray to disperse Muslim protesters who clashed with officers Sunday during a rally against a film produced ...
Iran threatens attacks on US bases in event of war
A senior commander in Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard warned that Iran will target U.S. bases in the region in the event of war with Israel, ...
US Navy's new floating base gets a workout in Gulf
A new, key addition to American-led naval efforts to ensure Mideast oil keeps flowing has emerged as an unusual mix of a ship combining decades' worth ...