TEHRAN, Iran -- Two days before voters go to the polls, opposition campaigns in Iran's increasingly raucous presidential election campaign warned of vote-stealing, and decades-old political rivals slung more mud at one another. At a massive rally in western Tehran, Iranian ...Read More
TEHRAN (AP) — Iran is set to begin air defense war games aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from possible attack, Gen. Ahmad Mighani of the Iranian Air Force said Saturday. The drills reflect the country's concern that Israel could ...Read More
TEHRAN, IRAN — Iran will begin large-scale air defense war games Sunday aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from possible attack, a senior military commander said Saturday. The five-day drill will involve Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard and the regular army and ...Read More
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will begin large-scale air defense war games on Sunday to help protect its nuclear facilities against any attack, a senior commander said.
Brigadier General Ahmad Mighani also suggested Iran could itself produce an advanced missile defense system ...Read More
TEHRAN, Iran—Iranian state TV is reporting that the country will begin large-scale air defense war games Sunday aimed at protecting nuclear facilities against any possible attack. Gen. Ahmad Mighani, who heads an air force unit dealing with threats to Iran's air ...Read More
TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday urged Turkey's visiting Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to increase trade ties between the two countries, the president's office said in a statement.
"Iran and Turkey could become each other's number one trade ...Read More
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran plans to launch a communications satellite by late 2011 with no outside help, a top Iranian official said Friday, after Italy and Russia declined to put it into orbit. The move reflected Tehran's frustration with the ...Read More
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Senior officials from six world powers expressed disappointment on Friday that Iran had not accepted proposals intended to delay its potential ability to make nuclear bombs and urged Tehran to reconsider. Iran has rejected a deal under which ...Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The launch of Wikipedia, emergence of the iPhone and the election of U.S. President Barack Obama were among the 10 most influential moments on the Internet in the past decade, according to the annual Webby awards.
Other ...Read More
TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday urged Washington to unblock Iranian assets, as US President Barack Obama warned of "consequences" after Tehran's dismissal of a UN-brokered nuclear fuel deal. "If our nation sees they have changed their behaviour, dropped ...Read More
TEHRAN, Iran—Iran will not ship its low-enriched uranium out of the country for processing, its foreign minister said Wednesday, once again rejecting a U.N. plan aimed at thwarting any attempt by Tehran to make nuclear weapons.
Instead, Foreign Minister Manochehr Mottaki ...Read More
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's foreign minister on Wednesday said his country would not export its enriched uranium for further processing, brushing aside the latest U.N. plan aimed at preventing Tehran from potentially building nuclear weapons. Instead Manochehr Mottaki said Iran would ...Read More
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran ruled out on Wednesday sending enriched uranium abroad for further processing, but would consider swapping it for nuclear fuel provided it remained under supervision inside the country, the ISNA news agency said. The decision is expected to ...Read More
TEHRAN, Iran -Iran's foreign minister ruled out on Wednesday sending enriched uranium out of the country for further processing, effectively rejecting the latest U.N. plan aimed at preventing Tehran from building nuclear weapons. The United Nations last month offered a deal ...Read More
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's foreign minister ruled out on Wednesday sending enriched uranium out of the country for further processing, effectively rejecting the latest U.N. plan aimed at preventing Tehran from building nuclear weapons. The United Nations last month offered ...Read More
TEHRAN, IRAN — Iran's foreign minister has ruled out sending enriched uranium out of the country, rejecting the U.N.'s plan to resolve the crisis. The U.N. offered a deal last month to Iran to take its enriched uranium out of the ...Read More
Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- Iran said Tuesday that it has sentenced five people to death and another 81 to prison terms of 6 months to 15 years for their roles in the protests that followed the country's disputed presidential elections.
The ...Read More
President Shimon Peres predicted on Tuesday that the people of Venezuela and Iran will make their leaders disappear before too long. Speaking at a forum in Argentina, Peres said both Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have gone crazy over oil, which ...Read More
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Despite his hardline image, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appears to favor a U.N.-drafted nuclear fuel proposal as a way to shore up his own power and legitimacy five months after his disputed re-election.
But he faces stiff opposition ...Read More
