Eurasia Press & News

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that Iran had the right to have nuclear energy as an NPT member.

BERLIN (AFP) – The killing of three Germans this week and the kidnapping of another three German civilians have triggered an anguished debate on the dangers and aims of Berlin’s deployment in Afghanistan. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s left-right government has said the setbacks have only strengthened its resolve and that it …

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) – A suicide attacker blew himself up Friday outside the house of a district governor in southern Afghanistan, killing the official and three of his children, officials said. The attacker detonated explosives strapped to his body as the Zhari district governor, Khairuddin, and his children left their …

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday explained achievements of his tour to Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan.