by WorldTribune Staff, December 19, 2016 Iran has discussed with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) the level of uranium enrichment that will be needed for the Islamic Republic to produce nuclear-powered vessels, a report said. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani discussed the plans for nuclear-powered ships with IAEA head Yukiyo Amano on Dec. 18, AFP […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 17, 2016 The U.S. House of Representatives’ decision to reauthorize sanctions means Iran will take ‘powerful’ but unspecified action, a senior Iranian official said. The House voted 419-1 on Nov. 15 to renew the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) for another 10 years. “If you extend the sanctions, this will mean kicking […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 14, 2016 Iran has dramatically increased its monthly oil output after opening three oilfields since international sanctions were lifted in January . President Hassan Rouhani officially launched the first phases of the Yadavaran and North Azadegan fields as well as the North Yaran field, which are shared with neighboring Iraq, the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 11, 2016 President-elect Donald Trump will act quickly to change the Iran nuclear agreement, a Trump adviser said on Nov. 10. “He will take the agreement, review it, send it to Congress, demand from the Iranians to restore a few issues or change a few issues, and there will be a […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 4, 2016 Iranians burned U.S. and Israeli flags and chanted “death to America” and “death to Israel” on Nov. 3 to mark the anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Teheran. Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said he agrees with the “death to America” chants, claiming the goal of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 24, 2016 A vast sea of immoral American voters have a choice between “bad and worse” in the 2016 presidential election, according to Iran’s “moderate” president. “America claims it has more than 200 years of democracy, and they have had 50 presidential elections, but there is no morality in that country,” […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 21, 2016 Iran is stocking up on American hostages and looking for “many billions of dollars” in additional ransom payments from the Obama administration, sources say. A father and son with dual U.S.-Iranian citizenship and at least four other dual nationals have recently been given prison sentences by Teheran for “spying […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 26, 2016 Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has instructed former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to refrain from running for the presidency in next year’s elections, state media reported on Sept. 26. “He (Ahmadinejad) came to me and I told him not to stand as I think it is not in his […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 22, 2016 The United States has given Airbus the go-ahead to sell its aircraft to Iran and Boeing said it expects to get the green light to sell its planes to the Islamic Republic “shortly”. Europe’s Airbus on Sept. 21 said it had received approval from the U.S. Treasury Department to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 26, 2016 The rising unpopularity in Iran of the nuclear deal with world powers has helped spur the re-emergence of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the Islamic Republic. When his tenure ended in 2013, the former Iranian president was “deeply unpopular at home, roundly blamed for a major decline in both domestic prosperity […]
