Middle Orient

Head of Iran’s Judiciary Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi stressed the need for enhanced judicial cooperation and exchanges among Islamic countries.

Iran on Monday postponed inauguration of the back up systems of its nuclear power plant in Bushehr to an unspecified future date.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki described practice of discriminatory approaches towards the use of new technologies as unjust and oppressive.

President of South Korea demands further development of ties with Iran in all the different economic, cultural and industrial grounds, chairman of the two countries’ parliamentary friendship group said here on Sunday.

The United States lacks the needed potentials and capabilities to take more military actions and engineer the international system, a strategy expert said here on Monday, adding that the US republicans are casting skin.

Iran on Sunday termed the international conference on Iraq’s security held in Baghdad the previous day as “serious and constructive” and said it had prepared the ground for future talks at minister level.

At least nine policemen have been killed by a bomb in the western Afghan province of Farah, officials say. They say the roadside bomb exploded as the police were travelling to the district of Bakwa. The dead included a local district police chief who had only recently been appointed to …

The following is the full text of Iran’s statement on the technical cooperation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) with the Islamic Republic addressed to the Board chairman by Iran’s Permanent Representative to the IAEA Ali Asqar Soltanieh.

The following is the full text of Iran’s statement on Agenda Item 8 of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors addressed to the Board chairman by Iran’s Permanent Representative to the IAEA Ali Asqar Soltanieh.

Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Larijani Thursday said Russia has demanded Iran to make payments in advance of the agreed dates.