
Tehran: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned the United States and Israel on Thursday not to launch military action against its nuclear sites, saying it would be met with "iron fists", state television reported. Tension over Iran's nuclear programme has increased since Tuesday when the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported that Tehran appeared to have worked on designing a bomb and may still be conducting secret research to...

12:36 AM, Nov 11, 2011

Tehran: Iran's supreme leader on Sunday hailed the coming withdrawal of US troops from neighbouring Iraq as a "golden" victory. US President Barack Obama plans to withdraw his 40,000 troops from Iraq by the end of the year after negotiations on keeping some forces there failed, a move some US politicians say could give Tehran more room to assert its influence. "The uniform stance of all tribes and religions in...

12:18 AM, Oct 31, 2011

New Delhi: Upset over persistently critical statements by Iran on Jammu and Kashmir, India on Friday summoned its acting Ambassador, telling him that such remarks impinged on the country's territorial integrity. New Delhi issued a strong demarche to Iran's charge d'affaires Reza Alaei expressing its "deep disappointment" over the remarks, which is seen in New Delhi as "impingement of territorial integrity and sovereignty". In an apparent tit-for-tat, India, for the...

07:11 PM, Nov 19, 2010

He said Western countries should keep away from Iran's domestic issues. ...

12:02 AM, Jun 22, 2009

Influential cleric Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani is the ex-president of Iran. ...

08:31 AM, Jun 21, 2009

Country's supreme leader rejects calls for fresh presidential poll. ...

06:21 PM, Jun 20, 2009

Protesters claim prez elections rigged, demand recount. ...

02:54 PM, Jun 19, 2009

The unrest is being called the worst in a decade in Tehran. ...

09:04 PM, Jun 14, 2009

Protests against many obvious election violations are being staged vehemently. ...

08:11 PM, Jun 13, 2009

IAEA says Tehran withholds info on secret attempts to make N-weapons. ...

06:14 PM, Jun 03, 2008

New Delhi: India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni did not have much to say about Sachin Tendulkar's captaincy but said it's good to have a genius like him in the side. Dhoni was asked to react on former BCCI secretary J Y Lele's book, in which he wrote that Tendulkar could not prove himself as a successful captain as he paid heed to too many advices. I have not played under...

03:52 PM, Mar 14, 2008