Iran News

An earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale jolted the area in the vicinity of the city of Sorkheh in Iran’s northern province of Semnan on Sunday.

President of Turkey’s TRT television met with the head of Iran’s state-run TV, Ezzatollah Zarqami, on the sidelines of the 44th general assembly of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) here in Tehran on Sunday.

There has been a flurry of diplomatic activity involving Tehran, Baghdad, Ankara and Washington to defuse tensions along the border between Turkey and northern Iraq.

Iran welcomed a recent Arab proposal to set up a consortium to provide Mideast countries with enriched uranium but said it would not halt its own enrichment activities

China urged Iran Saturday to further cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and create favorable conditions for further talks on the nuclear issue.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reiterated on Saturday that his country’s nuclear issue is already closed.

Iran’s foreign minister has responded positively to the prospect of Iran and the United States holding another round of talks on the situation in Iraq.

The Assembly of Experts Chairman Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani here on Wednesday called unity between religious, tribal, and political groups as the most important way to stand against foreign imperialism.

Interior Minster Mostafa Purmohammadi here on Wednesday stated that Iran has asked Ankara to consider all issues regarding the recent clashes between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Turkish army so to prevent future crisis in the region.

The Islamic Republic of Iran and Kazakhstan do not feel restricted in expanding mutual cooperation, Iran’s First Vice-President Parviz Davoudi said in a meeting with Kazakhstan’s Prime Minister Karim Masimov on Friday.