Armed bandits kidnapped 21 passengers, including an education ministry official, on Chabahar-Iranshahr road in Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan on Sunday, an informed source said.

Resistance is the legal right of the Palestinian people, Iran’s Expediency Council Chairman Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said.

World and Olympic weightlifting gold medalist Hossein Reza-zadeh escaped unhurt from a car accident on the way to the weightlifting camp in northern Iran on Saturday.

Iranian and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts will a start a third round of talks in Tehran on Monday to resolve the remaining issues between the two sides.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is due to leave Tehran for Baku, Azerbaijan on a two-day visit starting on Wednesday.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel said that Iranian nation will not allow the US to stage a coup de tat similar to what it did in Iran in 1963.

The decisions made by certain countries against Tehran can never block Iran’s progress and development, the country’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini said on Sunday.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) – Dozens of Taliban fighters attacked an Afghan military base in restive southern Afghanistan but pulled out after losing 10 of their fighters, an official said Monday. The rebels left their dead comrades on the battlefield and “escaped after tough resistance” Sunday night at the base in …

KABUL, Afghanistan – Four suspected kidnappers were captured Monday as Afghan police freed a German aid worker who had been snatched from a restaurant while she ate with her husband, officials said.Hundreds of police freed the 31-year-old woman in a raid after midnight in western Kabul, not far from the …

Five members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were killed during a crash of an army helicopter in the region of Kouh-Ghandil in the vicinity of the city of Piranshahr in northwestern Iran.