Israel has annexed thousands of hectares of West Bank land beside the barrier it is building, according to an Israeli rights group.
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September, 2008
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11 September
Israel ‘dividing up Palestinians’
Two Israeli rights groups have accused their government of tearing Palestinian families apart by curtailing the right to live in the West Bank.
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11 September
Lebanon politician dies in blast
A member of the pro-Syrian opposition in Lebanon has been killed in a car bombing south-east of the capital, Beirut, security officials have said.
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11 September
Devastating Quake Hits Southern Iran
TEHRAN (FNA)- An earthquake measuring 6 on the Richter scale jolted the port city of Bandar Khamir in Iran’s southern province of Hormozgan on wednesday.
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11 September
Rebels Free Kidnapped Policeman
TEHRAN (FNA)- A rebel group has released one of a group of Iranian policemen it said it kidnapped in southeastern Iran in June, a police commander said on Tuesday.
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11 September
Iran in Oil Talks with India, China on Caspian
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said Tehran is engaged in talks with Chinese and Indian oil and gas companies to develop energy reserves in the Caspian Sea in northern Iran.
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11 September
Iran Urges UN to Take Action against Israeli Threats
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran protested Tuesday against Israeli threats to kidnap President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and use force against the Islamic Republic, declaring that it would not hesitate to act in self-defense.
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11 September
Iran Building First Petrochemical Park in Assaluyeh
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian oil ministry said that it is constructing the country’s first petrochemical park in Assaluyeh energy zone in southern Iran.
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11 September
US not Expecting S-300 Sales to Iran in 2008
TEHRAN (FNA)- The United States does not expect Iran to receive a Russian air defense system this year, a Pentagon official said on Tuesday of the shield that would make any strike on Tehran’s nuclear sites more difficult
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11 September
Al-Qaeda Accuses Iran of Cooperation with US
TEHRAN (FNA)- Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri has accused Iran of collaborating with Washington in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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