The United States is on a concerted campaign to discourage foreign energy companies from doing business in Iran. But analysts say Iran's investment woes are its own fault — it could dodge international pressure and attract more foreign money by simply offering better deals.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad replaced his oil minister, Kazem Vaziri-Hamaneh, on Sunday, a move some analysts saw as a bid to stamp his control on an industry that is the source for most of Iran's revenues.
Iran's judicial authorities have completed their investigations into two detained Iranian-Americans, a senior official said on Sunday, in a case that has added to high tensions with Washington.
Iran on Sunday said it had concluded the investigation into two US-Iranian academics detained for the past three months on charges of harming national security.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's carpet industry does not fear possible U.S. sanctions against one of the country's main export earners as buyers would be able to circumvent such an import ban, a senior executive said on Sunday.
The United States is on a concerted campaign to discourage foreign energy companies from doing business in Iran.
TEHRAN, Iran, 8:31 a.m. Aug. 12 (AP): Ultra-hardliners within Iran's ruling establishment were appointed to a panel monitoring the next legislative elections, raising fears of foul play in a key vote that could determine the shape of the upcoming presidential vote.
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — The United States is on a concerted campaign to discourage foreign energy companies from doing business in Iran. But analysts say Iran's investment woes are its own fault — it could dodge international pressure and attract more foreign money by simply offering better deals.
Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has left Iraq for Iran and no longer has control over all units of his outlawed Mahdi Army, a U.S. commander said Friday.
The United States is on a concerted campaign to discourage foreign energy companies from doing business in Iran. But analysts say Iran's investment woes are its own fault - it could dodge international pressure and attract more foreign money by simply offering better deals. "They are doing the embargoing for us," said Mikkal Herberg, a former oil executive now with the National Bureau for Asian ...