Iran envoy gives Solana atom offer response

Iran Tehran, July 05: Iran's oil minister said any military attack aimed at curbing Tehran's nuclear work will push crude prices to "unpredictable" highs, the website of the country's Oil Ministry reported on Saturday. "When oil prices change by USD ...

Javier Solana's spokeswoman, Cristina Gallach, said in a Saturday telephone conversation the two sides discussed Iran's written response to the Western incentives package. Last month, Solana delivered to Iranian authorities a package of incentives, ...

Iran on Saturday offered to negotiate on its nuclear drive but without a freeze on uranium enrichment, in its first comments since responding to an international package aimed at ending the standoff. Its military chiefs, meanwhile, warned that the ...

In a Saturday interview with Malaysia-based Astro satellite TV, Mottaki stressed that Iran's nuclear program is not a new phenomenon as it dates back to at least 50 years ago. "Although Western powers advocated nuclear cooperation with Iran in 1957, ...

Oil dropped below US$145 a barrel yesterday, but was still within sight of record highs reached in the previous session when traders bought into the market ahead of a holiday weekend in the United States. U.S. crude oil was down US$1.28 at $144.01 a ...

Iran ’s nuclear policy has not changed, an Iranian government spokesman said Saturday in Tehran, confirming that Iran would not comply with Security Council resolutions requiring it to stop enriching uranium. “Iran’s stand regarding its ...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, visits the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility some 322 kilometers south of the capital Teheran, Iran. Photo: AP Slideshow: Pictures of the week Gholam Hossein Elham's statements came just a day after ...

Iran - Mottaki Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Saturday that a new atmosphere in Iran's nuclear activities has been created. Mottaki made the remarks in an interview with Malaysian satellite TV channel Astro on Saturday. The Iranian ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has suggested that Iran would never launch an unprovoked attack on Israel. Gholam-Hossein Elham made the remark to reporters a day after Iran delivered a response to a world powers proposal that Iran ...

Iran � Iran's nuclear program remains unchanged, a government spokesman Saturday, indicating that Tehran has no plans to meet a key Western demand that it stop enriching uranium. Gholam Hossein Elham's insistence that Iran would not change the ...