Markazi, Iran News

A Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011 file photo, shows Iran's heavy water nuclear facilities near the central city of Arak 150 miles southwest of Tehran.

Registration on May 11 of the urrent general secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili, advisor for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and father-in-law of his son, Isfandiar Rahim Mashaei and Iran's former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani as candidates for the presidency made the Presidential elections more interesting, but ... (more)

Don't defeat Iran. Shi'ism is not America's enemy. It is not in the long-term interest of the United States to side with the Sunni Arab states against Iran or vice versa.

In those first minutes, they'll be stunned. Eyes fixed in a thousand-yard stare, nerve endings numbed.

Today the Secretary of State imposed sanctions on four Iranian nuclear support companies and one individual as Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferators and their Supporters pursuant to Executive Order 13382.

Three explosions were heard in western Tehran on Tuesday, in an area where Iran carries out missile research and storage, BBC Persian reported.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center called on the organizers of the Buenos Aires Book Fair to publicly condemn the "House of Islam" stand for its promotion of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

TEHRAN A number of Iranian officials, clerics, and seminary students on Saturday strongly condemned the desecration of the tomb of a companion of Prophet Muhammad on the outskirts of Damascus by Syrian rebels.

The Pentagon has redesigned its biggest "bunker buster" bomb with more advanced features intended to enable it to destroy Iran's most heavily fortified and defended nuclear site, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

US officials recently gave Israel a video demonstration of the new features which enable its biggest bunker buster bomb to destroy Iran's underground uranium enrichment plant at Fordo near Qom, in a bid to dissuade Israel from a unilateral attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.

YANGON, Myanmar -- A U.S. government commission recommended that Myanmar remains on a U.S. State Department blacklist of 15 governments responsible for "systematic" violations of freedom of religion.

The Pentagon has beefed up its biggest "bunker buster" bomb so it can destroy Iran's most heavily armed and protected nuclear site, U.S. officials said.

TEHRAN: Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi on Thursday warned ex-presidents Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammad Khatami, without naming them, over their alleged role in the protest movement that followed Iran's disputed 2009 elections.

An Iranian leader with close ties to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei recently accused the Jews of engaging in sorcery and employing it against Iran, the Middle East Media Research Institute reported.

An Iranian regime official and a website close to the regime have recently accused the Jews of engaging in sorcery and of employing it against Iran.

EARLIER this year Iran's authorities arrested a score of men who, in separate incidents, claimed to be the Mahdi, a sacred figure of Shia Islam, who was "hidden" by God just over a millennium ago and will return some time to conquer evil on earth.

EARLIER this year Iran's authorities arrested a score of men who, in separate incidents, claimed to be the Mahdi, a sacred figure of Shia Islam, who was "hidden" by God just over a millennium ago and will return some time to conquer evil on earth.

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is in Myanmar for a two-day state visit, has pledged to help it deal with communal tensions.

On Valentine's Day 1989, the celebrated British-Indian novelist Salman Rushdie received the worst review of his career: a death sentence.