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US Sanctions Batter Iran's Currency

Ordinary Iranians scrambling to exchange sliding rial

(Newser) - The latest US sanctions against Iran have left Iranians scrambling for American dollars. President Obama has signed a bill placing Iran's central bank under sanctions, a move that sent Iran's currency tumbling 12% to a record low against the dollar. The rial has now lost 35% of its...

Bachmann: Get Missiles Ready for Iran

Launches her only Iowa TV ad

(Newser) - No more Mrs. Nice Presidential Candidate: Michele Bachmann says if she were president, she'd put Iran in its place by putting US missiles on alert and threatening a blockade, she told CBS today. Following Iran's announcement that it had developed a nuclear fuel rod, Bachmann said she'd...

Santorum: I'm Ready to Bomb Iran

Republican presidential candidate wants inspectors in Tehran

(Newser) - Surging in the Iowa polls , Rick Santorum said today he would bomb Iran's nuclear plants if international inspectors aren't allowed inside, the Wall Street Journal reports. "You can't go out and say, 'This is what I'm for,' and then do nothing,"...

Iran: We Fired New Missile, Produced Nuclear Fuel Rod

Country announces two breakthroughs

(Newser) - A weekend of nuclear breakthroughs for Iran? A state news agency claims today that the country performed a successful test of a medium-range ground-to-air missile, one day after the country announced that it had produced its first nuclear fuel rod. The missile test took place during 10 days of naval...

Iran to World Leaders: Let's Discuss Nuke Program

Tehran offers comes after new Western sanctions

(Newser) - Iran said today it has proposed a new round of talks on its nuclear program with six world powers that have been trying for years to persuade Tehran to freeze aspects of its atomic work that could provide a possible pathway to weapons production. The country's top nuclear negotiator,...

Iran Films US Aircraft Carrier in Persian Gulf
 Iran Films US Aircraft Carrier 
Dec 29, 2011 7:35 AM CST

Iran Films US Aircraft Carrier

And warns it not to come closer

(Newser) - Iran's chest-thumping continues: An Iranian surveillance plane spotted and recorded footage of a US aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf as part of its current Navy drill in the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's state-run news agency said today. It quoted the top admiral in Iran's navy as...

US to Iran: Shutting Hormuz 'Will Not Be Tolerated'

War of words escalates over proposed sanctions

(Newser) - The rhetoric between the US and Iran over the Strait of Hormuz is heating up, reports MSNBC . After Tehran threatened to shut down the strait if the West imposes sanctions, the US Navy's 5th Fleet responded thusly: "Anyone who threatens to disrupt freedom of navigation in an international...

Iran Threatens to Block Flow of Gulf Oil

...if US, EU impose sanctions

(Newser) - A blustering Iran yesterday threatened to choke the flow of oil through the Gulf's Strait of Hormuz if the West imposes sanctions on its oil exports—sanctions that the the White House is prepping and the EU is considering as a way to punish the country for its nuclear...

In Iran, Fight Brews Over Blocked Broadcasts

Tehran blocking foreign broadcasts while sending out its own

(Newser) - Should Iran be allowed to use Western satellites to broadcast its state-run TV channels to dozens of countries while it continues to jam Persian language-channels from abroad? Human rights activists, who complain that Iran has stepped up censorship of channels such as the BBC and the Voice of America in...

Mortars Hit Iran Dissident Camp in Iraq

Iraqis protested earlier this month to shut camp and boot exiles

(Newser) - Two mortars have hit an Iranian dissident camp inside Iraqi borders. It's unclear if any of the exiles were killed or injured in the attack just days after Iraq reached an agreement with United Nations to extend a deadline to shut the camp and relocate the 3,000 people...

Iran: We Might Still Stone Adulteress

Tehran apparently still itching to execute Ashtiani

(Newser) - The dizzying saga of Sakineh Mahammadi Ashtiani took another turn today, with Iran saying that it was going forward with plans to execute the convicted adulteress by stoning—unless, of course, it decides to just hang her instead, reports the AP . "There is no haste," said Malek Ajdar...

Iran's Navy Launches War Games

Warships head into international waters

(Newser) - Saber rattling just in time for the holidays. Iran is launching war games in international waters in the Persian Gulf today. The 10 days of exercises will likely bring warships close to US Navy vessels patrolling beyond the Strait of Hormuz, reports AP. The exercises are intended to display Iran'...

Iran Sought to Gag Family of Jailed 'US Spy'

Family speaks out, shocked by 'forced confession' in broadcast

(Newser) - The family of US-born ex-Marine Amir Hekmati says their son has been in Iranian custody since late August and Iranian authorities ordered them to "be silent" about his arrest if they ever want to see him again. Hekmati, 28, appeared in a broadcast on Iranian TV over the weekend...

Iran Admits It: Sanctions Hurt
 Iran Admits It: Sanctions Hurt 
Dec 20, 2011 2:14 PM CST

Iran Admits It: Sanctions Hurt

Oil production is down thanks to lack of foreign investment

(Newser) - Iran likes to feign indifference in the face of Western economic sanctions, but the strains are starting to show, the New York Times observes, with the country’s deputy oil minister openly acknowledging yesterday that oil production was declining “due to lack of investment in oil field development.”...

Syria Finally OKs Arab League Observers

Will be free in their movements, but can't access some military sites

(Newser) - Syria finally signed an agreement to allow Arab League monitors into the country today, after the Arab League accepted 70% of the changes demanded by Damascus. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said that Syria signing the long-awaited deal was a sign that Bashar al-Assad’s regime was pushing for a...

Russia Catches Iranian With Radioactive Metal

He was trying to board a plane to Tehran

(Newser) - Russian custom agents have seized 18 pieces of radioactive metal from an Iranian man who was trying to board a flight to Tehran, the customs agency announced today. The incident occurred sometime in the past—the agency didn't specify when—at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. The man's luggage...

US to Iran: Give Us Back Our Drone, Please

But Obama, Clinton don't seem to be holding their breath

(Newser) - Red-faced American officials have requested that Iran return a crashed US drone —the one apparently paraded before Iranians and stripped of whatever secrets it was carrying. "We have asked for it back. We'll see how the Iranians respond," said President Obama in the first confirmation that...

IRNA: Blast Kills 7 in Iran Steel Mill
 Blast Kills 7 at Iran Steel Mill 
Dec 12, 2011 10:43 AM CST

Blast Kills 7 at Iran Steel Mill

'Leftover ammunition' prompts explosion: IRNA

(Newser) - A blast caused by leftover ammunition has killed at least seven workers, including foreign nationals, at a steel mill in the central city of Yazd, Iran's official news agency says. The report by IRNA said the blast late last night wounded 12 other workers. It has not reported the...

Iran General: We're Not Returning Drone

US officials won't say whether drone shown on TV is American

(Newser) - Iran has no plans to give back the US drone it claims to have, according to top general Hossein Salami. "No nation welcomes other countries' spy drones in its territory, and no one sends back the spying equipment and its information back to the country of origin," Salami...

Video Surfaces of Missing Ex-FBI Agent

'33 years of service to the US deserves something,' says Robert Levinson

(Newser) - The family of Robert Levinson has released a video in which the missing ex-FBI agent pleads for help from the US government. In the video, Levinson urges Washington to help him "answer the requests of the group that has held me for three and a half years," without...

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