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Tehran, Jan 8 (DPA) The car of one of Iran’s opposition leaders, Mehdi Karroubi, was hit by gunfire but the cleric was unharmed, opposition websites reported Friday.
Karroubi is believed to have attended a mourning ceremony Friday in the city of Qazvin, west of the capital Tehran, when some 500 government supporters attacked the ceremony. The [...]
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Tehran, Jan 7 (DPA) Iran and Syria plan to create a new world order, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday.
‘Iran and Syria have a joint mission to create a new world order on the basis of justice, humanity and belief in God,’ Ahmadinejad told visiting Syrian Parliament Speaker Mahmoud al-Abrash.
Syria is Iran’s main ally in [...]
Washington, Dec 29 (DPA) US President Barack Obama Monday condemned Iran for violently cracking down on demonstrations, warning the Islamic state it will not succeed in denying people their universal rights.
‘The United States joins with the international community in strongly condemning the violent and unjust suppression of innocent Iranian citizens,’ Obama said while on winter [...]
Tehran, Dec 28 (DPA) The nephew of Iranian reformist opposition leader Mir-Hossein Moussavi was among those killed during protests in Tehran, the opposition claimed Sunday – one of several people apparently killed during a day of demonstrations across the country which also saw at least 300 people arrested.
After a confusing day of rumour, denial and [...]
Tehran, Dec 27 (DPA) Demonstrators returned to the streets of Tehran Sunday and police fired tear gas to quell the protests, witnesses and opposition website reports said.
The protests were reportedly held near Tehran University in the city’s centre, which was the scene of protests and clashes Saturday as well.
Police deployed throughout the Iranian capital Sunday [...]
Tehran, Dec 26 (DPA) There were renewed political protests on Saturday in Tehran and police fired tear gas shells to disperse the crowds, an Iranian opposition website reported.
The Jaras website, which is close to the Green Movement led by former prime minister Mir-Hossein Moussavi, said clashes between an unspecified number of protesters and police broke [...]
Tehran, Dec 26 (DPA) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Saturday termed European politicians ‘one more stupid than the other’.
‘These (European) politicians neither know anything about politics nor about history,’ Fars news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying in a speech at at Arak mosque in Tehran.
‘For example, they come and say let’s destroy the minarets of the [...]
Washington, Dec 23 (IANS) December is ‘a very real deadline’ for Iran to ‘pursue its responsibilities’ on the nuclear issue, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Tuesday.
Responding to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s defiance over a year-end deadline to accept a uranium-swap deal, Gibbs said while Ahmadinejad ‘may not recognise…the deadline that looms, but that is [...]
London, Dec. 21 (ANI): The BBC has claimed that its Persian television signal was being jammed following the airing stories on the death of Iran’s top dissident cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri.
The corporation said its service for [...]
Tehran, Dec 13 (DPA) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Sunday promised the Palestinian militant group Hamas continued support in their fight against Israel, state television reported.
In a meeting with visiting Hamas politburo head Khaled Meshaal, Ahmadinejad said that Iran would constantly stand besides the Palestinian nation until what he called ‘imminent collapse of the Zionist regime [...]
Tehran, Dec 10 (IANS/AKI) Shirin Neshat is leading a new generation of Iranian filmmakers who are creating films that may never be screened in their own country.
Neshat, who won the coveted Silver Award at the Venice Film Festival this year for her directorial debut ‘Women Without Men’, has become increasingly critical of the politics in [...]
Tehran, Dec 9 (DPA) Iran does not want further escalation in the dispute over its nuclear programmes and wants talks with the world powers, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday.
‘We do not welcome any escalation and are ready to hold further talks [with world powers] over global issues,’ Ahmadinejad said after a cabinet session in Tehran, [...]
Vienna/Tehran, Dec 1 (DPA) The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is still awaiting information from Iran on the ten additional nuclear sites that the country plans to build, the IAEA’s spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Sunday announced plans for the uranium enrichment plants as a reaction to a resolution by the IAEA’s governing board [...]
Tehran, Nov 22 (DPA) Iran’s Revolutionary Guards were scheduled to begin military manoeuvres Sunday, the news network Khabar reported.
The exercises will last for five days and mainly focus on testing the air force capabilities and protective measures in case of any potential attacks against the country’s nuclear sites, it said.
Military manoeuvres have recently increased following [...]
Tehran, Nov 18 (DPA) The Iranian judiciary has issued death sentences against five more dissidents, state media reported.
The judiciary announced in a statement that death sentences had been issued against five and prison terms from six months to 15 years against 81 dissidents arrested following the disputed presidential election June 12.
The five on death row [...]
New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) The foreign ministers of India and Iran Monday held wide-ranging talks here about terrorism emanating from Pakistan while Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reportedly reiterated New Delhi’s commitment to take forward the three-nation gas pipeline also involving Pakistan.
External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna held delegation-level talks with his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki [...]
Tehran, Nov. 16 (ANI): Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has reiterated that his country has every right to be a nuclear power, and confrontation on this issue would only make the country “more powerful and more developed.”
Ahmadinejad added that nuclear activities in Iran were happening within the framework of IAEA regulations.
“Iran is ready for constructive [...]
Tehran, Nov 2 (DPA) Iran Monday banned publication of a pro-reform business daily critical of the government’s economic policies.
‘Based on a decision by the media supervisory board, the publication licence of Sarmayeh newspaper was annulled,’ state news agency IRNA reported, citing a statement released by the Culture Ministry’s media department.
The report said the ban was [...]
Tehran, Oct 29 (DPA) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that Iran would welcome a uranium exchange deal proposed with Russia, the US and France.
‘We welcome the uranium exchange deal and are ready for cooperation, but the countries involved in the deal should also fulfil their commitments,’ Ahmadinejad said in a speech in Mashad in [...]
Tehran, Oct.21 (ANI): Iran has once again blamed Pakistan for Sunday’s terror attack on the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRG) in which 42 people were killed, saying there is specific information that the perpetrators were hiding inside Pakistan and has asked Islamabad to ‘clarify’ its stance over reports regarding its links banned terror group, Jondollah.
Iran’s [...]
Tehran (Iran), Oct. 19 (ANI): Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday urged Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari to confront the Jundallah, a Sunni militant group which Tehran says was behind the bombing on Revolutionary Guard commanders in the southeastern part of his country on Sunday.
“Iran and Pakistan have a brotherly relationship, but the presence of [...]
Tehran, Oct 19 (DPA) A deadly attack against Revolutionary Guards in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan has strained bilateral ties between Iran and Pakistan, Iranian state television reported Monday.
Forty-two people, including at least seven senior commanders of the Revolutionary Guards, were killed in the incident Sunday. Another 28 were wounded and were still in critical [...]
Tehran, Oct. 19 (ANI): Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has asked the Pakistan Government to quickly apprehend and hand over “some security agents” to Iran who were reportedly involved in the Sunday’s attack on the Revolutionary Guards.
“We were informed that some security agents in Pakistan are cooperating with the main elements of this terrorist incident… We [...]
Tehran, Oct 18 (DPA) Iran Saturday released Newsweek reporter Maziar Bahari on bail after four months’ detention, the ILNA news agency reported.
Iranian-Canadian Maziar Bahari was released on bail amounting to almost $300,000, ILNA quoted a judiciary official as saying.
Bahari was arrested last June while covering protest demonstrations following the disputed June 12 presidential election.
Further details [...]
Nuremberg, Oct 13 (DPA) The daughter of a close associate of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has requested asylum in Germany, after attending a human rights film festival in Nuremberg, a festival spokesman said Tuesday.
Filmmaker Nargef Kalhor, 25, had refused to return to her native Iran after the festival and applied for asylum instead. She is [...]
Tehran, Oct 7 (DPA) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Wednesday confirmed Iran’s willingness to exchange low-enriched uranium with other countries for high-enriched fissile material.
Speaking after a cabinet session on state television, Ahmadinejad said several countries had expressed interest to cooperate with Iran on the exchange.
The president added that Iran would be prepared to hold talks with [...]
Tehran, Oct 4 (DPA) Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said Sunday in Tehran that the IAEA will inspect the newly revealed Iranian nuclear site Oct 25.
The date was also confirmed by Iran’s atomic chief Ali-Akbar Salehi.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had said Saturday that world powers including the US have [...]
Tehran, Oct 3 (DPA) World powers including the US have realised there was no secrecy over the country’s new uranium enrichment plant, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday.
The official news agency IRNA quoted the president as saying that despite Western propaganda, it became clear that Iran was not keeping secrets over the new plant located [...]
London, Oct.3 (ANI): Evidence uncovered by The Daily Telegraph shows that Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has a Jewish past.
According to the paper, the evidence shows that his family’s previous name was Jewish. photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card during elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish roots.
A [...]
Tehran, Sep.30 (ANI): Iranian Vice President and head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Ali Akbar Salehi has revealed that one of its uranium enrichment facilities is inside a mountain next to a military site to ensure continuity of nuclear activities in case of an attack.
Salehi also said that Iran is willing to have [...]
