TimeLine Layout

August, 2007

  • 19 August

    Iran Arrests 90 Int’l Drug Traffickers

    An Iranian police official here Saturday said that the law enforcement anti-drug squad has arrested an international band of drug traffickers in Tehran, saying that the gang, which included 85 African drug traffickers, has been totally disbanded.

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  • 19 August

    Hijackers Surrender

    The men who hijacked a Turkish plane Saturday morning surrendered themselves to the Turkish officials later in the day.

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  • 19 August

    Iraqi PM to Visit Syria to Discuss Security Issues

    Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is due to discuss security, political and economic issues with Syrian officials during a three-day visit to Damascus starting from Monday, a Syrian official said.

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  • 19 August

    Iranian Gov’t Supports Muslim Investors

    Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi said that government encourages and supports foreign investments in Iran, specially by Muslim countries, adding that the world of Islam is in need of such participation and partnership.

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  • 19 August

    Quake Hits Southern Iran

    An earth tremor measuring 3.4 on the Richter scale jolted the city of Khonj in Iran’s southern province of Fars on Saturday.

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  • 19 August

    Iran Denounces Hijacking of Turkish Plane

    Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammed Ali Hosseini Saturday denounced the hijacking of a Turkish passenger plane this morning, saying that the Islamic Republic would not issue the landing permission for the hijacked plane under any conditions.

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  • 19 August

    Gov’t Spokesman Scoffs at US Efforts to Blacklist IRGC

    Iranian Government Spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham described as baseless and unfounded the recent words and efforts made by the US to list Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terror group, saying that nobody in the world would buy such worthless words.

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  • 19 August

    US Awe Shattered in Iraq

    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that the historical defeat and failure of the US and its allies in Iraq shattered their global awe.

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  • 19 August

    Iran, Tajikistan Exchange Foreign Tourists

    Iran and Tajikistan have agreed to exchange foreign tourists who take a trip to either country, an Iranian tourism official said here Saturday.

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  • 19 August

    Iran’s Security Increases

    Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi said that his country’s security coefficient has increased.

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