The terrorist list which includes terror suspects has caused problems in the Parliament in Strasbourg.
Read More »Iran divestment bill passes
California lawmakers took a step closer Tuesday toward ordering the state’s two giant public pension funds to unload more than $2 billion in retirement money invested in foreign companies doing business in Iran.
Read More »Republicans insist Iran must not have nukes
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) — Republican candidates for US president agreed on Tuesday that Iran must not develop nuclear weapons, even if a tactical nuclear strike is needed to stop Tehran, and accused Democrats of being soft on the issue.
Read More »Iran evacuates thousands as cyclone strikes
TEHRAN (AFP) — Cyclone Gonu, the worst tropical storm to hit the Gulf in decades, made landfall in Iran on Wednesday afternoon, packing winds of 200 kilometres an hour and  forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of people, officials said.
Read More »Tehran charges US-Iranian citizen with spying
TEHRAN (Reuters) — Iran’s judiciary confirmed on Tuesday the detention of an Iranian-American social scientist on charges of spying, one of a number that US officials and think tanks had reported held.
Read More »Too late to stop Iran nuke drive — Ahmadinejad
TEHRAN (AFP) — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned on Tuesday that it was too late to stop Iran’s nuclear programme despite new efforts by Western powers to impose more UN sanctions against the Islamic republic.
Read More »Powerful cyclone bears down on Arabian Gulf
MUSCAT (AP) — Thousands of people fled low-lying areas Tuesday as the strongest cyclone to threaten the Arabian Peninsula in 60 years barrelled towards the oil-rich Persian Gulf — with southern Iran next in its path.
Read More »Iran ready to resist on nuclear, Khamenei warns
TEHRAN (AFP) — Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday warned that Iran was prepared “to pay a price†and “resist†to realise the aims of its contested nuclear programme amid an intensifying standoff with the West.
Read More »Egypt and Iran Consider Restoring Relations
Egypt and Iran are considering restoring diplomatic relations and are expected to engage in negotiations in the next few days.
Read More »Bush condemns Iran’s detention of Americans
WASHINGTON — US President George W. Bush on Friday strongly condemned Iran’s detention of American citizens and called for them to be freed “immediately and unconditionally.†Tehran has accused dual US-Iranian citizens Haleh Esfandiari, an academic, Kian Tajbakhsh, a social scientist, and Parnaz Azima, a journalist, of spying. The State …
Read More »