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  • Iran Says It Will Remain Loyal to Nuclear Treaty
    Iran’s foreign ministry says the country is a committed signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and will continue cooperating with the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency. Five major powers on Friday labeled Iran and North Korea as “serious challenges” to the world’s nuclear security, saying they have defied U.N. sanctions. They cited Iran’s...
    April 21, 2013 1:19
  • Iran Says May Need More Heavily Enriched Uranium
    Iran’s nuclear chief is saying the country may need to obtain uranium enriched to a higher percentage than what it currently produces. A Tuesday report by the semi-official Fars news agency quotes Fereidoun Abbasi as saying that Iran has no plan to enrich beyond 20 percent, “but in some special cases like ship and submarines, where we must manufacture small...
    April 16, 2013 22:21
  • Iran will wipe out cities if Israel attacks: Khamenei
    Iran will “annihilate” the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa if it comes under attack by the Jewish state, the Islamic republic’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned on Thursday. “Every now and then the leaders of the Zionist regime threaten Iran with a military attack,” Khamenei said in a live televised speech from the northeastern...
    March 21, 2013 21:15
  • Iranian bank challenges sanctions in Britain’s Supreme Court
    An Iranian bank appealed to Britain’s Supreme Court on Tuesday against sanctions imposed on it by the British government in 2009 over alleged links to Iran’s nuclear program. Bank Mellat, Iran’s biggest private sector lender, wants the sanctions lifted on the basis that the government has failed to provide evidence of a connection between itself and Tehran’s...
    March 19, 2013 20:21
  • Iran’s Ahmadinejad heads for Chavez funeral: TV
    Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was travelling to Caracas on Thursday for the funeral of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, state television reported. Ahmadinejad “will shortly leave Tehran for Venezuela to attend the funeral” of Chavez who died on Tuesday, the broadcaster announced in the early afternoon. Friday’s funeral of the firebrand leftist...
    March 8, 2013 7:43
  • Iranian President to Attend Chavez Funeral
    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has left for Caracas to attend the funeral of his Venezuelan ally Hugo Chavez. Ahmadinejad is the head of an Iranian delegation that flew out of Tehran on Thursday. The Iranian leader has praised Chavez, comparing him to a saint and saying he will return on resurrection day. In his condolences on Wednesday, Ahmadinejad also said he...
    March 8, 2013 0:30
  • Iran spurns UN call for Parchin visit
    Iran on Tuesday spurned a request by the IAEA for access to a military base where Tehran allegedly conducted nuclear weapons research, saying the issue should be addressed in a wider agreement with the UN atomic agency. “Our cooperation with the (International Atomic Energy Agency) will continue in its already established framework of cooperation,” foreign...
    March 5, 2013 20:32
  • Iran-Pakistan pipeline work to begin March 11: officials
    An Iranian-Pakistani consortium will start work next week on a much delayed $7.5 billion gas pipeline from Pakistan to Iran that has aroused strong US opposition, Pakistani officials said on Friday. The date was announced after Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari held talks in Tehran with Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,...
    March 1, 2013 22:09
  • Iran appears to advance in construction of Arak nuclear plant
    Iran appears to be advancing in its construction of a research reactor Western experts say could offer the Islamic state a second way of producing material for a nuclear bomb, if it decided to embark on such a course, a U.N. report showed. Iran has almost completed installation of cooling and moderator circuit piping in the heavy water plant near the town of Arak, the...
    February 23, 2013 8:37
  • Iran denies involvement in Bulgaria bomb attack
    Iran played no part in the bombing of a bus last year that killed Israeli tourists, its ambassador to Bulgaria said on Friday, rejecting Israeli charges that it was involved in the attack. Bulgaria has accused the Iranian-backed Hezbollah of carrying out the July attack, a charge the Lebanese Shi’ite Islamist militia dismissed as part of a smear campaign by its arch...
    February 8, 2013 22:42
  • Iranians can ‘wipe out’ Israel if attacked: Ahmadinejad
    The Iranian people are ready to march on Israel to “wipe it out” if the Jewish state attacks the Islamic republic, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in statements published Wednesday by Egypt’s state news agency. “The people of Iran are ready to march on Israel to wipe it out if it launches into an adventure against Tehran” and attacks the...
    February 6, 2013 21:21
  • Ahmadinejad in Cairo at start of historic Egypt visit
     Ahmadinejad arrived in Cairo on Tuesday, marking the first visit to Egypt by an Iranian president since Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution, Egyptian television footage showed. Egypt’s Islamist President Mohamed Morsi welcomed Ahmadinejad at Cairo airport as he disembarked from the plane, the footage showed. Ahmadinejad, who is on a three-day visit, will attend...
    February 5, 2013 20:40
  • Iran hedges on nuclear talks with six powers or U.S.
    Iran said on Sunday it was open to a U.S. offer of direct talks on its nuclear program and that six world powers had suggested a new round of nuclear negotiations this month, but without committing itself to either proposal. Diplomatic efforts to resolve a dispute over Iran’s nuclear program, which Tehran says is peaceful but the West suspects is intended to give...
    February 4, 2013 12:42
  • Iran to install new nuclear equipment at Natanz site
    Iran intends to install more modern equipment at Natanz, one of its main nuclear sites, according to a document seen by AFP on Thursday. The UN atomic agency document said that Iran informed it in a letter dated January 23 that “centrifuge machines type IR2m will be used in Unit A-22” at the Fuel Enrichment Plant (FEP) at Natanz. The International Atomic Energy...
    January 31, 2013 20:14
  • Iran: Monkey Successfully Sent Into Space
    Iranian state TV says the country has successfully sent a monkey into space in what’s described as another step toward Tehran’s goal of a manned space flight. Monday’s report said the monkey was sent up in a Pishtam, or Explorer, rocket to a height of 120 kilometers (72 miles). It gave no other details on the timing or location of the launch, but said...
    January 28, 2013 17:10
  • Russia urges Iran to speed up nuclear cooperation
    Russia on Wednesday urged Iran to speed up its answers to the UN nuclear watchdog addressing suspicions that Tehran is operating an atomic weapons programme. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said world powers had questions “about what may be — has been or is — a military component to the nuclear programme. “Iran has underscored its desire to fully...
    January 23, 2013 19:22
  • U.N. nuclear agency seeks Iran deal, Parchin visit
    U.N. nuclear inspectors hope to gain access to the Parchin military site during a visit to Iran this week as part of an investigation into suspected atom bomb research, the delegation leader said on Tuesday. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) aims to finalize a framework deal with Iran in Wednesday’s talks in Tehran that would enable it to resume its inquiry,...
    January 16, 2013 1:55
  • EU says Iran not responded to nuclear talks proposal
    The European Union has proposed a time and place for further talks on Iran’s nuclear program, but Iran has yet to respond, an EU spokesman said on Friday. Iran said earlier on Friday it had agreed to resume talks in January with six major powers – represented by the EU – but the EU spokesman said Tehran had not yet replied to proposals made on December...
    January 5, 2013 16:07