President Bush and European Union leaders threatened Iran on Tuesday with new financial sanctions unless the country curbs its nuclear ambitions and opens facilities to international inspection. ...more

June 11, 2008

As the sun sets, the sky slowly turns a deep orange rose over Dubai. Crates of merchandise - food, clothes, General Electric appliances, Hewlett-Packard computers - are loaded onto dhows, the traditional wooden vessels that still ply the ancient routes to Iran about 60 miles to the north. ...more

December 30, 2007

The World Bank, newly caught up in the Bush administration's campaign against Iran, has had to suspend payments for earthquake relief, sanitation and other projects there in response to new American sanctions on leading Iranian banks, World Bank officials say. ...more

November 4, 2007