Dubai: Iran has hanged a man it said was an agent for Israeli intelligence agency Mossad whom it convicted of killing one of its nuclear scientists in 2010, Iranian state media reported on Tuesday. Twenty-four year old Majid Jamali Fashi was hanged at Tehran's Evin Prison after being sentenced to death in August last year for the murder of Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, Iran's state news agency quoted the central prosecutor's office...
02:14 PM, May 15, 2012
Beijing: Pakistan supports "peaceful use" of nuclear technology by Iran, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said, as he backed enhanced energy and trade ties with Tehran, which is facing international sanctions. Gilani said Pakistan is desirous of enhancing its bilateral relations with Iran, especially in energy and trade. He said realisation of Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project will open new vistas of cooperation. Gilani said "Pakistan wants to enhance trade...
05:57 PM, Apr 01, 2012
London: Britain's foreign secretary condemned Iran on Sunday for blocking a website aimed at explaining the United Kingdom and its policies to Iranians. William Hague said that barring the British government's "UK for Iranians" site three days after it was launched proved "the Iranian authorities fear their own citizens' interaction and involvement with the outside world." "UK for Iranians" was launched Wednesday, after Iran blocked the website of Britain's now...
09:01 PM, Mar 18, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Wednesday made the first arrest in the bombing of an Israeli embassy car in the capital earlier last month. The police arrested a freelance journalist, accusing him of being part of the conspiracy. The arrest comes just over three weeks after the dramatic bombing of the Israeli embassy car that critically injured a diplomat and two others near the Prime Minister's residence. The freelance...
07:59 AM, Mar 08, 2012
Washington: President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are deeply at odds over how fast the clock is ticking toward possible military action against Iran's nuclear program, and their talks on Monday are unlikely to change that. Even though Obama has offered assurances of stiffened US resolve against Iran before the White House meeting, the two allies are still far apart on explicit nuclear "red lines" that Tehran...
12:24 PM, Mar 05, 2012
Israel will not set red lines for military action on Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Saturday. However, US President Barack Obama has warned against a premature strike. Meanwhile, oil prices spiked to their highest in 4 years. ...
10:41 AM, Mar 03, 2012
Tehran: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday global powers would be falling into a trap if they pursued talks with Iran and he challenged Tehran with a series of demands before he meets US President Barack Obama. But at the same time, Netanyahu was careful at a news conference with Canada's leader to avoid widening a rift with Obama over what Washington fears could be an Israeli rush...
08:53 AM, Mar 03, 2012
Tehran: Polls opened on Friday for a parliamentary election in Iran that will test the popularity of the clerical establishment at a time of a standoff with the West over the country's nuclear programme. State radio reported polling stations opened their doors to voters at 8 a.m. (0430 GMT). They are due to close at 6 p.m. (1430 GMT), although this time has been extended in past votes. The parliamentary...
11:28 AM, Mar 02, 2012
Tehran: Iran's ruling political and religious hardliners will face off in a parliamentary election on Friday, echoing a deepening rift in a conservative establishment grappling with economic sanctions over the country's disputed nuclear programme. The election will by the first since the country's disputed presidential election in 2009, when bloody opposition and pro-democracy protests were stamped out by security forces. This time round, reformist groups have said they will boycott...
07:48 AM, Mar 02, 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
Tehran: Iran would take pre-emptive action against its enemies if it felt its national interests were endangered, the deputy head of the Islamic Republic's armed forces was quoted by a semi-official news agency as saying on Tuesday. "Our strategy now is that if we feel our enemies want to endanger Iran's national interests, and want to decide to do that, we will act without waiting for their actions," Mohammad Hejazi...
04:49 PM, Feb 21, 2012
Islamabad: President Asif Ali Zardari has said that Pakistan's ties with Iran will not be "undermined" by any international pressure, asserting that Islamabad is determined to forge ahead with projects with Tehran, which include a strategic gas pipeline. "We need to inter-depend on each other and a safe Pakistan is a prosperous Pakistan. Our bilateral relationships cannot be undermined by any international pressure of any kind," Zardari told a news...
03:55 PM, Feb 17, 2012
Iran on Wednesday said it has made '4th generation centrifuges' made of carbon fibre. ...
11:43 PM, Feb 15, 2012
Tehran: Iran has announced a major step forward in its nuclear programme, showing its nuclear facilities on TV. Iran trumpeted advances in nuclear technology on Wednesday, citing new uranium enrichment centrifuges and domestically made reactor fuel, in a move abetting a drift towards confrontation with the West over its disputed atomic ambitions. President Ahmedinejad will confirm exactly what strides have been made later. This was announced on his official website....
06:23 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
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