Iran

Baghdad, Feb 8 – Baghdad was under tight security Wednesday on the eve of the Shiite mourning ceremony of Ashura, with roads closed to cars and additional checkpoints set up throughout the Iraqi capital. Police announced they have closed bridges leading to the south of the country in effort to …

Berlin, Feb 7 – A top Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip said in a newspaper interview to be published on Tuesday that the European Union will agree to talk to the resistance movement within six months. After the movement’s victory in recent Palestinian elections the EU made continued funding …

12:02:33 È.Ù Occupied Palestine, Feb 7 – Zionist regime’s domestic security chief said he believed the 2003 invasion of Iraq led by its US ally had been damaging for the occupying regime, in comments broadcast Monday. It had harmed the regime’s interests by “sparking chaos in Iraq”, Shin Beth chief …

2006/02/09 ——————————————————————————– 10:03:35 Þ.Ù Tehran, Feb 9 – Romanian charge d’affaires was summoned to foreign ministry on Wednesday to be informed of Iranian government’s official protest at re-publication of sacrilegious cartoons in one of the Romanian press, deemed insulting to holy Prophet of Islam Hazrat Mohammad (PBUH). In a meeting …

Iran-Ahmadinejad-Nuclear President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad here Sunday in a tatement addressing the dignified and courageous nation of Iran referred to some points about the government’s firm determination to defend the inalienable national rights to nuclear activity.

PARIS, 4 Feb. (IPS) After months of standoff, the Islamic Republic got what was expected: a very strong slap from the international community with which the new hard line president Mahmoud Ahmadi Nezhad had opposed a deliberate and provocative policy of confrontation, Iranian political analysts said, commenting the Saturday 4 …