Iran News

Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi said Iranian and Pakistani officials have started negotiations for the extradition of a number of criminals who were arrested by the Pakistani police after they took several Iranian citizens hostage and crossed the two neighbors’ borders last month.

Iran’s non-oil exports experienced a 28% increase in the first four months of the Iranian year from March 2007, announced commerce minister.

Those who have established Abu Ghraib and Guantanamou prisons and defend occupation should not make boastful speeches about human rights, Syrian deputy foreign minister said.

Bolivian foreign minister stressed that the world should voice full support for Iran’s nuclear rights.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel said Iranian nation will respond to its enemies on the scene of science and action

Former President Hashemi Rafsanjani was picked Tuesday as head of the Experts Assembly, a powerful clerical body empowered with choosing, supervising and dismissing Iran’s Supreme Leader.

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Helen Clark says diplomacy is the best way to resolve Tehran-West standoff over Iran’s nuclear issue.

 Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei pledged that Iran would never yield to Western pressure over its nuclear program, and it would outsmart “drunken and arrogant” Western opponents in the standoff.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with Nicaragua’s visiting Foreign Minister Samuel Santos Lopez on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) ministerial meeting here in Tehran on Monday.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said that the fourth round of talks between Iran and the US over his country would be held in the near future.