Iran

A prominent Iranian lawmaker, noting the United States’ recent military build-up in the region, warned Arab countries to be watchful of colorful revolutions.

Iranian oil ministry caretaker Gholam-Hossein Nozari is expected to pay a visit to Turkey next month to sign energy agreements with the Ankara officials, a Turkish official said.

Governor General of Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan said that the criminals who were arrested by the Pakistani police after abducting several Iranians and escaping to Pakistan on Sunday would be handed over to Iran in the near future.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) deputy Director General Ollie Heinonen described his two-day talks in Tehran with Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Undersecretary Javad Vaeedi as “constructive”.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Nagorno-Karabakh conflict should be resolved through negotiations, reminding that all the world issues could be settled down through dialogue and on the basis of law and justice.

Haleh Esfandyari, the Iranian academic who is a resident of the US and was arrested by Tehran officials on charges of harming national security, will soon be released on bail, an informed source from Iran’s judiciary said on Tuesday.

We feel proud of our confrontation with world oppressors and support for the oppressed, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said.

The Islamic Republic of Iran Tuesday voiced strong protest at the recent statements made by the commander of the US troops in central Iraq.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad voiced Tehran’s preparedness to transfer its nuclear achievements to peace-seeking countries in line with the articles of association of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

A masked man took hostage 500 people attending an academic meeting in the Convention Hall of Tehran University here Tuesday morning