Tehran: Iran can manage its economy even without crude exports, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed on Tuesday as Tehran cut off oil sales to Greece, the third European nation to be hit by an Iranian retaliatory measure ahead of EU's oil embargo. Iran had warned in February that it might extend an earlier embargo imposed on Britain and France to other European countries, after the EU set a ban on Iranian...
04:37 PM, Apr 10, 2012
Dubai: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has launched a fresh tirade against the West, saying the Islamic Republic does not fear military action, Iranian media reported on Sunday. "The Iranian nation doesn't fear your bombs and warships and planes. Such weapons are worth nothing," the Fars News Agency quoted him as saying on a visit to the town of Karaj, to the west of Tehran. "You say to Iran all options...
05:18 AM, Mar 12, 2012
London: Iran has "dramatically escalated" a crackdown on dissent in the run-up to this week's parliamentary elections, arresting lawyers, students and journalists and targeting electronic media, human rights group Amnesty International said on Tuesday. "In Iran today you put yourself at risk if you do anything that might fall outside the increasingly narrow confines of what the authorities deem socially or politically acceptable," said Ann Harrison, an Amnesty Middle East...
08:06 PM, Feb 28, 2012
Islamabad: A counter-terrorism summit in Islamabad is grabbing eyeballs, especially with the participation of Iranian President Ahmedinejad. It is the Iranian premier's first public outing after he revealed his country's nuclear might live on television on Wednesday. The trilateral summit is also being attended by Afghan President Hamid Karzai who arrived on Thursday. The summit will focus on regional security situation, say officials. Shortly after his arrival, Karzai held one-on-one...
07:08 AM, Feb 17, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan's top leadership on Thursday assured visiting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the government is committed to a multi-billion dollar bilateral gas pipeline project that has come under a cloud due to sanctions imposed on Tehran by Western powers. During a meeting with Ahmadinejad, President Asif Ali Zardari reiterated Pakistan's commitment to the "expeditious implementation of the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project" and other energy projects, including a 1000MW electricity...
10:52 PM, Feb 16, 2012
Tehran: Iran flexed its nuclear muscle on Wednesday claiming major advances in its nuclear programme. It displayed its nuclear facilities on Television. Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, however, maintained that nuclear technology was being used for peaceful purposes and that his country was not making bombs. The US reacted to this dismissing Tehran's claims as 'mere hype'. It said that Iran was lashing out to the world to distract attention from...
07:35 AM, Feb 16, 2012
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, however, said his country's nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes. ...
10:24 PM, Feb 15, 2012
Tehran: Displaying defiance against toughening western sanctions, Iran on Wednesday carried forward its controversial nuclear programme by loading domestically made fuel rods into its Tehran reactor and announced plans to cut off oil exports to six European countries. "Approximately 6,000 centrifuges were working. 3,000 have been added to that amount. There are 9,000," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a speech broadcast on state TV and watched live throughout the world....
10:14 PM, Feb 15, 2012
Tehran: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday came out in defence of his regime's thirst for nuclear energy, saying that the programme was for peaceful and civilian purposes. In an address to the nation, Ahmadinejad said that nuclear energy costs low in price, adding that his countrys programme would be helpful in knowledge, clean energy and medicines. In an apparent attack on the West, the Iranian president pointed that for...
09:43 PM, Feb 15, 2012
Tehran: Iran will insert its first domestically-produced nuclear fuel rods into a research reactor in Tehran on Wednesday, a top Iranian official said. "Because western countries were unwilling to help us, we began enriching uranium to 20 percent to make nuclear fuel rods," Ali Bagheri, deputy chief of Iran's National Security Council, said in an interview. "These nuclear rods, the first created by Iranian specialists, will be inserted tomorrow into...
07:58 AM, Feb 15, 2012
Tehran: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday the Islamic Republic would soon announce "very important" achievements in the nuclear field, state TV reported. He was speaking on the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic revolution. Tens of thousands of Iranians joined state-organised rallies across the country to mark the occasion. Demonstrators carrying Iranian flags and pictures of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei chanted "Death to Israel" and "Death to America"....
07:32 PM, Feb 11, 2012
Tehran: Iran's Parliament on Tuesday decided to summon President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for questioning over a long list of accusations, including that he mismanaged the nation's economy. The summons was the first of its kind for an Iranian president since 1979. It follows a petition by a group of lawmakers for a review of policy decisions by Ahmadinejad, who has come under increasing attacks in recent months from the same hard-liners...
08:19 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Tehran: Iran is ready to revive talks with the US and other world powers, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday, but suggested that Tehran's foes will have to make compromises to prevent negotiations from again collapsing in stalemate. Iran's insistence that it will never give up uranium enrichment - the process that makes material for reactors as well as weapons - scuttled negotiations a year ago and still looms as...
01:02 AM, Jan 27, 2012
Venezuela: President Hugo Chavez defended his close ally Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday as tensions rose with the US over Tehran's nuclear program and a death sentence against an American man convicted of working for the CIA. The two leaders met in Caracas on the first leg of a four-nation tour that will also take Ahmadinejad to Nicaragua, Cuba and Ecuador. "They present us as aggressors," Chavez said of...
04:48 AM, Jan 10, 2012
Tehran: Iranian diplomats expelled from London in retaliation for attacks on British compounds in Tehran arrived home on Saturday, the official IRNA news agency reported, sealing Iran's most serious diplomatic rift with the West in decades. About 150 hard-liners waiting with flower necklaces had gathered at Tehran's Mehrabad airport to give the roughly two dozen diplomats and their families a hero's welcome. But the Iranian government, apparently opposed to any...
09:27 AM, Dec 03, 2011
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