Iranian firms feel the heat as sanctions bite
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When a Western bank suddenly suspended the account of her family freight firm, Nazila Noebashari revived a financial practice she thought long gone: she sent staff to the Afghan border to collect $50,000 by hand.
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The Russian nuclear power company Atomstroyexport has been roundly criticized for helping Iran build its nuclear program. Yet it hasnât hurt business.
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Iran and its European partners struggled to salvage their agreement committing Tehran to freeze an important part of its nuclear program.
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Iran is in the midst of a sweeping crackdown that both Iranians and U.S. analysts compare to a cultural revolution in its attempt to steer the oil-rich theocracy back to the rigid strictures of the 1979 revolution.
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Raising pressure on Tehran, the United States on Wednesday slapped sanctions on a general from the country's elite Qods force and three Iraqis living in exile in Syria and Iran for fomenting violence in Iraq.
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A defiant Iran faces possible U.N.   Security Council sanctions after the world body's atomic   watchdog said Tehran refused to stop work on its nuclear   program by a Thursday deadline.
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As the International Atomic Energy Agency&#39;s governing board prepares for its meeting today - during which it will discuss Iran&#39;s nuclear weapons program â-he radical Iranian regime&#39;s defiance is growing.
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Fears that Islamic hard-liners could  exacerbate Iran's nuclear standoff with the West, scare foreign  investors and worsen social tensions may pave the way for a  comeback by former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
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China and Russia express concern about further sanctions on Iran proposed by the UN Security Council.
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Pragmatists in Iran's clerical regime were under pressure from hardliners who lined up to condemn an agreement to suspend sensitive nuclear activities in line with international demands.
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Iran's decision to raise gasoline prices has thrown new light on one of its most entrenched problems &#151; the danger a vulnerable, subsidized economy poses for a country under international pressure over its nuclear program.
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Pragmatists in Iran&#39;s clerical regime were under pressure from hardliners on Tuesday who lined up to condemn an agreement to suspend sensitive nuclear activities in line with international demands.
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ESFAHAN, Iran -- The squat, tan buildings with barred windows can be reached only by driving well outside the city to a flat stretch of desert on the edge of the hills. The site is surrounded by antiaircraft artillery emplacements and a large metal fence topped with barbed wire.
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Oil prices rose more than half a  percent on Thursday as Iran looked set to defy the United  Nations' deadline for halting nuclear enrichment, raising the  risk of sanctions against the world's fourth-biggest exporter.
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Facing fierce international pressure, Iran backed off yesterday from its demand to be allowed to continue operating some uranium enrichment
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Iran is sending mixed messages on enrichment, and international powers have been slow to join and push sanctions.
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Iran's Deputy Economic and Finance Minister Mohammad Safaei-Farahani and his German counterpart Alfred Tacke stressed here Saturday investments by German companies in Iran.