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Iranian opposition leader, Mehdi Karroubi lashed out against accusations from hardliner, Ahmad Jannati for saying that Iranian opposition leaders were in receipt of financial support from the US.

Iranian engineers successfully overhauled an Airbus A300-600 aircraft, Iran Air's managing director said on Thursday.

Friday, July 30, 2010 at 3:21 a.m. TEHRAN, Iran - An Iranian official says cigarettes smuggled into Iran have been tainted with pig blood and nuclear material as part of a Western conspiracy.

A second mortar shell fired from Gaza, lands on Palestinian territory 12:36 UN rights body tells Israel, again, to end Gaza blockade 12:35 Mortar shell fired from Gaza lands on Palestinian territory 12:23 Netanyahu: Israel takes Grad rocket fire on Ashkelon very seriously 12:01 Tel Aviv nightclub security guard lightly wounded in overnight stabbing ...

Majlis Speaker, Ali Larijani, said on Thursday that Iran is proud of supporting Lebanese Hizbollah, IRNA reported.

In my column last week, I addressed a growing tendency in the current discussions on Turkish foreign policy and took issue with attempts to reduce the tectonic changes in Turkey and its foreign policy to the personal choices and character traits of the major political players.

Earlier this month a judge convicted Mahmoud Yadegari of nine of the 10 charges he was facing -- he was acquitted of one count of forgery.

A Toronto man found guilty of trying to send devices to Iran that could be used to build nuclear weapons has been sentenced to four years and three months in prison.

A moment of clarity struck Nora Shourd recently as her worldwide campaign to free her daughter and two other U.S. citizens from their imprisonment in Iran brought her to an Iranian consulate in London.

Behind-the-scenes help of the Taliban includes training, medical treatment and bribes Iran is engaged in an extensive covert campaign to arm, finance, train and equip Taliban insurgents, Afghan warlords allied to al-Qaida and suicide bombers fighting to eject British and western forces from Afghanistan, according to classified US military ...

Taking the boat across Dubai's old creek is like a journey back in time. Back to the days when the city was little more than a trading port of pearls, spices and gold, long before it struck oil and thus changed beyond recognition.

President Ahmadinejad has so far failed to wrest control of academic institution he accuses of backing his opponents.

In June 1981 then Israeli chief of staff Rafael Eitan announced the plan of Israeli air force to bomb Iraq's Ozirak nuclear facilities.

The UK liner agent blacklisted by the European Union for being an entity of the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines stopped operating more than two years ago, according to one of its former bosses.

This week the pressure on Iran has increased with new, stricter, European Union sanctions.

Talks on Iran's nuclear program will resume in September, and despite the war bluster from neocons and the far right, the Obama administration seems prepared to try once again.

Other press conference speakers include Maryam Namazie, Iran Solidarity spokesperson, and human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell.

Australia will impose sanctions against companies involved in Iran's oil and gas sector, restricting business dealings between the two countries, Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith has announced.

ISLAMABAD: The foreign diplomatic missions here on Wednesday expressed their grief and sorrow over the tragic plane crash in Islamabad that led to the loss of one hundred and fifty-two lives.

Iran executed three drug traffickers in the Ahvaz city, Fars News Agency reported.