Eurasia Press & News

By CONSTANT BRAND, Associated Press The U.S. will keep a close eye on Iran’s involvement in Afghanistan following reports that Taliban insurgents used Iranian-made weapons against NATO forces, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday. Richard Boucher, Assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia, told reporters that Washington would …

AFP – UN chief Ban Ki-moon expressed distress Tuesday over the deaths of five UN contractors in a bomb attack in Afghanistan, as well over mounting civilian casualties in the country. “The secretary general was deeply distressed to learn of the fatal incident which occurred earlier this morning, when a …

By Raju Gopalakrishnan, Reuters When U.S.-led forces defeated the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan in 2001, the Hazaras, a tribe living in the central mountains, cheered the loudest. The mostly Shi’ite Hazaras had been oppressed by the Sunni rulers in Kabul through centuries of tumultuous Afghan history. But when the strictly …

Equipment and weaponry of the 15 British marines were not returned to London, an informed source said here on Wednesday.

Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said his country’s powerful, efficient and well-equipped army is fully prepared to defend Iran while it merely seeks to reinvigorate sustainable peace, stability and security in the region.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said those whose histories are filled with aggressions, oppressions and cruelties are indicting Iran for aggression and belligerency.

President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) Ezzatollah Zarqami, in a meeting with Armenian Culture Minister Hasmik Poghosian, voiced Tehran’s preparedness to launch joint cultural cooperation with Yerevan.

Iran’s First Vice-President Parviz Dawoodi said that the pressures exerted by the US and certain countries on foreign investors to prevent them from investing their capitals in Iran have all proved unfruitful.

If Mr. Bush has any power, he’d better spend it on the establishment of security and freedom inside his country, Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel said pointing to the recent manslaughter at Virginia Tech University.

Islamic Republic army started a public display of the drones it has specifically designed for electronic warfare during a ceremony held at the mausoleum of the Founder of the Islamic Republic, the late Imam Khomeini, in southern Tehran on Wednesday to mark the ‘Army Day’.