Iran News

When a large airliner with hundreds of passengers on board is blown out of the sky by a missile, it is a tragedy of immeasurable proportions.

A severe country wide water shortage across the Islamic Republic of Iran could result in the disappearance of the 3,000-year-old agriculture industry, an Iranian climate expert said.

Last week, The Washington Post's Tehran, Iran, correspondent was arrested. The charges are unspecified, but according to the paper, Jason Rezaian, 38; his Iranian wife, Yeganeh Salehi; and two other U.S. citizens were detained.

JJA: "Tunnels! You think the Gazans are unique? You think that 'dark city beneath the one we see' that the Israelis are talking about is limited to Gaza? No way.

The illuminated towers of Red Square and the Kremlin flank the skyscrapers of Moscow's business district in the background.

Decline and destruction of Zagros oak forests has been accelerating at a rapid pace in the past five years and despite many warnings, no solution has been so far implemented to protect these highly valuable natural resources.

Inhumane conditions in prisons in Iran are worsening and threatening the lives of increasing numbers of inmates, reports from inside the regime have revealed.

While war in Gaza rages on and the West dumps on Israel for having the effrontery to defend the lives of its people, attention has strayed from the most important actor in the region, Iran.

The Iranian regime and the six world powers have not reached any agreement on Arak heavy water nuclear power plant of and the Fordow underground uranium enrichment site, the senior Iranian regime nuclear negotiator said in Tehran on Thursday.

IranESs top nuclear negotiator Abbas Araqchi on Thursday denied any deal between Iran and G5+1 on Arak and Fordu nuclear sites, IRNA reported.

Nine foreign nationals were charged in a Kenyan court on Thursday with trafficking the biggest ever single seizure of drugs at the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa.

Islamic Republic News Agency , Iran july 29 2014 West Azarbaijan Armenians?Ë? archbishop congratulates Iranians on Eid-ul-Fitr Tabriz, East Azarbaijan Prov., July 29, IRNA -- Archbishop of Armenians in Western Iran Grigor Chiftchian on Tuesday congratulated Iranian nation on auspicious Eid-ul-Fitr .

Fresh Iranian threats to provide more missiles for Palestinian terrorists to use against Israel come at a time when the U.S. and Russia remain at odds over whether a nuclear agreement now being negotiated with Tehran will cover its missiles program.

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Any agreement to export natural gas from Israel's large Leviathan reservoir to Turkey can only occur following an improvement in political relations between the two countries relations that have grown increasingly fragile during the Israeli-Gazan conflict according to an Institute for National Security Studies report.

Yesterday, thousands of teachers from various cities filled the surrounding streets to the mullahs' Majlis shouting anti-government slogans.

The global body in charge of domain names, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers , has asked a federal court to prevent the handover of the country code top-level domain names of North Korea, Syria, and Iran as part of a terrorism lawsuit dating back over a decade.

Smoke and fire rise over Gaza City from an Israeli strike on Tuesday. Shells fired from an Israeli tank shut down the city's only power plant that will lead to disruptions in electricity and water supply to Gaza's 1.7 million people.

According to the Social Headquarters of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran inside Iran, at around 15:30 local time, after a technical difficulty was detected at the Tehran-Karaj Metro and the train stopped at Chitgar station, hundreds of passengers began to chant anti-regime slogans, including, "Victory is near, death to this deceitful ... (more)

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