Now, Iran tells Pak to stop using its soil for activities against it

September 30th, 2009 Iran: Talks with 6 nations will test their respectTEHRAN, Iran — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Thursday's nuclear talks with the U.S. and five other nations will be a "test" of their respect for Iran's rights.

September 22nd, 2009 Ahmadinejad tells AP Iran is an opportunity for USNEW YORK — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (ah-muh-DEE'-neh-zhahd) says his country is not a threat to the United States as President Barack Obama has said, but "an opportunity." In an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday, the Iranian leader refused to give an explicit opinion of his American counterpart. "Is this a question to test my IQ?" he said in response.

September 22nd, 2009 Iran says it is open to nuclear weapons discussionNEW YORK — Iran's leader is telling The Associated Press that he expects open discussion of nuclear issues at a planned meeting with officials from the U.S. and five other powers.

August 31st, 2009 6 nations to hold meeting on Iran in GermanyBERLIN — Officials from six countries trying to address concerns about Iran's nuclear program will meet in Germany this week, the government in Berlin said Monday. Foreign Ministry spokesman Jens Ploetner said the meeting would be held at "high civil servant level." His ministry later said it would take place Wednesday near Frankfurt.

July 15th, 2009 Gadhafi says Iran nuclear program to be supportedSHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt — Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi says Iran should be encouraged to pursue its nuclear program as long as it is for peaceful purposes. Gadhafi was addressing Wednesday's opening session of a summit of the Non-Aligned Movement at the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik.

June 25th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Thursday called on his US counterpart Barack Obama not to interfere in Iran's internal affairs following unrest over alleged election fraud, the state-run Fars news agency reported. The news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying that Obama should stop interfering and indirectly demanded an apology from the US president for meddling.

June 1st, 2009 LAHORE - Iran has lodged a strong protest with Pakistan over its failure to curb the ever increasing activities of Jundullah, a militant organization based in Pakistan. According to well-placed diplomatic sources, Iran said the Jundullah not only threatens the diplomatic relations between Islamabad and Tehran, but it also poses a threat to the proposed Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project.

May 11th, 2009 US reporter leaves jail in Iran, lawyer saysTEHRAN, Iran — A lawyer for a U.S. journalist jailed in Iran says she has been freed from prison after an appeals court suspended her eight-year jail sentence.

April 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The United States and its European allies are ready to drop a longstanding American demand that Tehran rapidly shut down nuclear facilities during the early phases of negotiations over its atomic programme. The proposals, exchanged in confidential strategy sessions with European allies, would press Tehran to open up its nuclear program gradually to wide-ranging inspection, accoprding to officials engaged in the negotiations.

April 13th, 2009 QOM - Iran will be able to build nuclear power plants worldwide within the next ten years, IRNA reported Monday quoting a senior official. Mohammad Saeedi, deputy director of Iran Atomic Energy Organisation (IAEO), said: 'In the next ten years Iran will be among the countries in the world that build nuclear reactors.' Speaking at a ceremony Sunday to mark the National Nuclear Day, Saeedi said that comprehensive plans for developing nuclear activities began in 1997 and that the country had sought help from some countries but they refused, Mehr News reported.

April 1st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that if US President Obama doesn't act to stop Iran developing a nuclear weapon, the Israelis may be forced to attack Iran. An article titled, "Netanyahu to Obama: Stop Iran-Or I Will" in The Atlantic makes the threat of a unilateral strike on Iran's nuclear sites very explicit, reports CBS.

March 11th, 2009 NEW YORK - Iran supplied arms to Syria in violation of a UN Security Council resolution banning arms transfer as part of measures against Iran's nuclear activities, the US and Britain said Tuesday. Details of the arms transfer to Syria were not made public, but the US and British ambassadors called for efforts to stop weapons deals between Tehran and Damascus.

February 21st, 2009 NEW YORK - UN Security Council members said Friday they eventually would have to tackle the new situation with Iran, which has continued its uranium enrichment programme and been found to produce enough fissile material for an atomic bomb. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna said in an updated report that the Tehran regime has underreported by a third the extent of its enrichment activities.

February 7th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iran's government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham Saturday criticised the new US President Barack Obama for following George Bush's approach towards Iran, Fars news agency reported. 'The era of this (Bush's) literature has passed and speaking in the language of the past is not suitable for today's situation,' Elham said, referring to Obama's emphasis on the need for the suspension of Iran's nuclear activities.

January 20th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iran's Culture Minister Mohammad-Hossein Safar-Harandi said BBC's Persian-language TV channel in Iran is illegal, IRNA reported Wednesday. Tehran, Jan 21 (IANS) Iran's Culture Minister Mohammad-Hossein Safar-Harandi said BBC's Persian-language TV channel in Iran is illegal, IRNA reported Wednesday.