Iran News

Sri Lanka’s president secured 1.5 billion dollars worth of financial aid from Iran for infrastructure projects while on a three-day visit to the country, his office said on Wednesday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran said on Wednesday to have built a submarine equipped with sonar-evading technology, saying the craft had been launched in the Persian Gulf.

Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are set on Thursday to finish sealing uranium fuel that Russia intends to send to Iran’s first atomic power station, a Russian nuclear official said.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A senior commander in Iran’s naval force said the country’s navy enjoys the required capabilities to respond to any possible military aggression against Iran’s territorial waters with an iron feast.

Iran’s Intelligence Minister Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ezhehee said that his ministry would disclose contents of a case publicly known here in Iran as the nuclear spy case if the judiciary power issued the required permission.

Chances of a breakthrough appear slim when Iran’s main nuclear negotiator meets Europe’s top diplomat on Friday in a last effort to avert tougher sanctions over Tehran’s disputed atomic program.

The commander of coalition forces in two volatile Baghdad neighborhoods says Shiite splinter groups backed by Iran are continuing their attacks, in spite of a reduction of violence in the area by mainstream Shiite groups and mostly-Sunni al-Qaida.

President Bush and senior Iraqi Shi’ite politician Abdel Aziz al-Hakim of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council met privately in Washington on Tuesday.

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said here Wednesday that self-confidence and reliance on God Almighty are the most important back up of the Iranian Armed Forces.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here Wednesday that the International Atomic Energy Agency’s report confirming Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities marks an absolute victory for Iranian nation.