The Iran Project

Iran will host the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit late August, ISNA quoted Iranian Vice-President for International Affairs Ali Saeed-Lou as saying. Ali Saeed-Lou said “initial steps to host the meeting are being taken. Some letters of invitations have been sent for NAM members to join the summit and other letters   Read More ...

IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano visits Tehran ahead of Baghdad talks to discuss the issue of modality and a new framework to remove the IAEA’s ambiguities and questions. Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi expressed hope that Iran and the IAEA could reach an agreement on designing a new modality.   Read More ...

According to France 24, Iran summoned Bahrain’s ambassador in Tehran after his foreign minister told the Islamic republic to stop interfering in his nation’s internal affairs, state media reported on Friday. Foreign Minister Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmad al-Khalifa on Thursday warned Iran to stop meddling over a proposal for Bahrain   Read More ...

According to Guardian, Shahin Najafi, a Germany-based Iranian singer, recently released a song with references to Ali al-Hadi al-Naqi, the tenth of the 12 Shia Muslim Imams, a religious figure highly respected by millions in Iran. The controversial clip posted on Youtube, watched by hundreds of thousands online, has divided opinions in   Read More ...

While the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said Thursday that in the upcoming talks between Tehran and the P5+1, Iran is seeking “cooperation” from world powers, West countries are again intensifying their confrontation with Iran over Syria.  In a recent report, an expert panel monitoring U.N. sanctions on Iran charged Iran to violate a U.N. Security   Read More ...

Iranian people will condemn US plan to annex Bahrain to Saudi Arabia and express their anger against the lackey regimes of Al-Khalifa and Al-Saud after this week’s Friday prayers. During the 14th Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) summit that concluded in the Saudi capital of Riyadh on Monday, leaders of GCC   Read More ...

Gulf Arab leaders meeting on Monday were expected to announce closer political union, starting with two or three countries including Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. According to Reuters, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain will weigh closer political union at a summit of Gulf Arab leaders on Monday aimed at pooling efforts to neutralize   Read More ...

The nuclear talks between Iran and the IAEA representatives have been on track and constructive thus far, the Permanent Representative of Iran at the IAEA Ali Asghar Soltanieh said on Tuesday, the second day of discussions. “We had good talks. Everything is on the right track. The environment is very   Read More ...

New round of nuclear talks between Iran and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will be resumed today (May 14) at the nation’s embassy in Vienna. Iran meets UN nuclear agency officials with world powers (P5+1) watching closely for clues on Tehran’s stance ahead of their forthcoming Baghdad talks. “The world   Read More ...

Ex socialist French Prime Minister Michel Rocard arrived in Iran on Saturday to strengthen Tehran-Paris bilateral relations. In a meeting with former French Socialist Prime Minister, Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi expressed hope that the President-elect would adopt a new approach toward the expansion of bilateral relations in all   Read More ...

The picture drawn by Mahmoud Shokraye of Iranian MP Ahmad Lotfi Ashtiani was deemed insulting after he took offence of the depiction, which led him to be given a sentence of 25 lashes. Shokraye drew the caricature of the parliamentarian in ‘Nameye Amir’, a city newspaper in Arak, the capital   Read More ...

Tehran’s Interim Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Mohammad Emami-Kashani urged P5+1 group – Britain, China, France, Russia, and the United States plus Germany – to use wisdom as their yardstick in Baghdad negotiations. Citing the fatwa (religious decree) issued by Supreme Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei prohibiting production   Read More ...

Ahmadinejad on his 100th provincial visit to Mashhad, Khorassan Razavi prov, on May 10, made the statements, addressing a large group of local people. Referring to implementation of the second phase of the national targeted subsidy plan, he said the project was the start of a major economic development in   Read More ...

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast dismissed the claim of Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) about Parchin site, calling it a joke.   Paul Brannan, an analyst at the Institute for Science and International Security claimed that satellite imagery of the Parchin site taken on April 9, compared   Read More ...

Negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program are resumed, Iran and US are considered as the main negotiators. Both sides are under pressure to resolve the issue and relax tensions. Iran and US are negotiating over Iran nuke program. Negotiations are going in 2 ways, secret and formal. Political experts call 5+1   Read More ...

A South Korean UN nuclear inspector died and a Slovakian colleague injured Tuesday in a car crash near a reactor site in central Iran, ISNA reported. News agencies in Iran identified the South Korean inspector as Seo Ok-Seok. According to the semiofficial news agency ISNA, the International Atomic Energy Agency   Read More ...

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast expressed hope that Francois Hollande’s presidency opens a new page on Iran-France bilateral relations. “We hope a new era will open up based on the existing potential between the two nations” and their “historic relations,” Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said in an   Read More ...

Iran on Saturday slammed Google’s move to remove the name of Persian Gulf from its maps section, calling it a mischievous act that will have no result except losing its users’ trust in the data the company provides. The body of water separating Iran from the Arabian Peninsula has been   Read More ...

An Iranian trade delegation will arrive in India on Sunday to explore commercial opportunities on the same day as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton starts her official visit.  The Iranian traders’ trip comes as Washington has been pressuring India to reduce its oil purchases from Iran in a bid   Read More ...

Iran on Friday held a parliamentary election run-off to decide 65 seats still outstanding in its 290-member legislature following a March 2 first round. Conservative factions dominate Parliament in a second round of elections. According to Reuters the authorities hailed the outcome as a resounding triumph for Iran as it prepares   Read More ...

Iran’s ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh made Tehran’s red lines in nuclear talks with world powers clear, saying Iran will never suspend its uranium enrichment program and sees no reason to close the Fordow underground site. According to Russia Today, the US and other Western   Read More ...

The five permanent members of the UN Security Council said they expected talks with Tehran to lead to concrete steps toward a negotiated solution, Reuters reported.  In a joint statement issued at a nuclear conference in Vienna on Thursday, Russia, the United States, France, China and Britain urged Tehran to   Read More ...

According to Reuters,  Iran is optimistic about progress in talks with world powers over its nuclear programme but it will never give up its right to the peaceful use of atomic energy. Iran said it was seeking an end to Western sanctions over its arms program during talks with world powers and criticized   Read More ...

The 25th Tehran International Book Fair which was kicked off on Tuesday (May 2) in presence of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and cultural officials opens to the public today. Over 2,400 Iranian publishers and 1600 publishers from 77 countries are offering their products at the fair this year, Tehran times reported   Read More ...

According to Fars, Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told reporters in his weekly press conference on Tuesday that “we have repeatedly announced that the issue of the trio islands is related to our country’s national sovereignty”, and underlined that presindent Ahmadinejad was entitled to visit Abu Musa due to Iran’s national   Read More ...

The Iranian Teacher’s Day is celebrated on May 1 (Ordibehesht 12, in Iranian Calendar), commemorating the martyrdom day of an Iranian eminent philosopher Ayatollah Morteza Motahhari on May 2, 1979. Ayatollah Morteza Motahhari, who was born in 1299 in Fariman, Khorasan Razavi Province, was an Iranian  scholar, cleric, lecturer, and politician. Martyr   Read More ...

All religious scholars concern about the economic performance of Ahmadinejad administration. Last reaction of the Society of Qom Seminary Teachers to the recent Iran’s economic situation  was to write a letter to President Ahmadinejad in which they expressed concern about inflation. According to the information center of Jameeh Modarresin, in   Read More ...

According to Nytimes, as several recently retired top security officials have done, Mr. Olmert urged Mr. Netanyahu’s government not to rush into unilateral military action against Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program. But Mr. Olmert went much further. Drawing boos from a largely American audience in New York, he fired off a wide-ranging   Read More ...

Keyhan’s editor in chief, a hardline newspaper close to IRGC, Hossein Shariatmadari said Westerns are trying to create divisions among officials by making people disappointed of authorities’ efficiency. Since Iran elections news has gone beyond its borders, it is crucial for MPs to observe the news. Answering this question, who would   Read More ...

Iran’s Foreign Minister called previous round of talks between Tehran and six major world powers (P5+1), a “beginning for ending the nuclear dispute,” expressing hope that Baghdad meeting will be a total end to the dispute. In a joint press conference with Armenia’s Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian on Sunday in   Read More ...

A new round of talks between Tehran and the UN’s nuclear agency will be held in Vienna in mid-May. On April 27, Iran officially announced its readiness to resume talks with the UN’s nuclear agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran’s chief delegate to the IAEA, said, as cited by BBC Persian.   Read More ...

France 24 quoted AFP as saying, Iran is busy acquiring the technical know-how to launch a potentially crippling cyberattack on the United States and its allies, experts told a congressional hearing on Thursday, urging the US to step up its defensive measures. “Over the past three years, the Iranian regime   Read More ...

 Tehran’s interim Friday Prayers Leader  Hojjatoleslam Kazzem Seddiqi says the West remove or ease sanctions against Iran during negotiations in a bid to prove its goodwill and gain the Iranian nation’s trust. Addressing thousands of prayers at Tehran University Campus, Ayatollah Seddiqi said it would be beneficial to all if the   Read More ...

Iranian political factions on Thursday have started electoral campaign for the second round of 9th parliamentary polls. 130 candidates from 33 constituencies will run for parliament on May 4. Only 65 of them will be elected. The candidates found their way into the second phase of elections allowed by law   Read More ...

The head of the Israel Defense Force (IDF) Lieutenant General Benny Gantz has said he does not think Iran will develop nuclear weapons. In an interview with Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, Chief of Staff Lt Gen Benny Gantz described Iran’s Supreme Leader as “very rational”, adding that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had not yet   Read More ...

Iran announced on Tuesday it has recalled home the diplomat who is accused of fondling girls at a swimming pool in Brazil and will investigate him. Fars News Agency reported, Ramin Mehmanparast, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman told at a press conference in Tehran, being in a mixed-sex swimming pool is not acceptable   Read More ...

Ramping up its spying operations overseas, Pentagon is planning to create a new spy service that will focus on high-priority targets like Iran and China. Focusing on Iran and China, as high priorities, reflects a shift away from the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan that have dominated America’s security landscape for the   Read More ...

Member of Commission on Councils and Parliament’s Internal Politics announced that some MPs have developed a draft for the tourist and cultural province of Persian Gulf to be founded, FNA reported. Vali Esmaeili, Member of Commission on Councils and Parliament’s Internal Politics stated that on the eve of National Day   Read More ...

According to the Iranian officials, the website of Iran’s Oil Ministry has come under a cyber attack but it couldn’t harm the main data. Mehr reported, the Iranian Oil Ministry, the National Iranian Oil Company, and a number of other companies affiliated with the ministry, were targeted by a computer   Read More ...

Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Forces announced that Iran has successfully decrypted all the records of the captured US spy drone and by completely reverse-engineering it, has started to build a copy of it. According to Press TV, the Iranian military’s electronic warfare unit announced on   Read More ...

Mashregh News reported, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad participated in Expediency Council meeting after 3 years. The last time he attended the Expediency Council meeting dates back to the early 2009. Ahmadinejad as a president is a permanent and legal member of Expediency Council but after the 10th presidential election he was absent   Read More ...

Following an Iranian senior diploamt in Brazil was accused of sex scandal, Iran’s embassy in Brazil on Thursday said in a statement “the charge against the Iranian diplomat is a misunderstanding due to differences in cultural behavior.” An Iranian diplomat was accused of molesting underage girls at a swimming pool   Read More ...

The bloc may review in the next two months an oil embargo plan against Iran that is scheduled to take effect from July, a senior EU official was quoted as saying on Friday. EU member states had agreed to review the embargo plan as soon as this month because of   Read More ...

Iranian officials condemned  “baseless” claims made by the United Arab Emirates over the three Iranian islands of Abu Musa, Greater Tunb and Lesser Tunb. Foreign ministers from the six [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council nations held an emergency meeting Tuesday in Qatar to discuss Ahmadinejad’s visit last week to Abu Musa, one of   Read More ...

Iranian commander of the Army’s Ground Forces said that deploying of US missile shield in the region was based on Iranphobia policy by US government propaganda.   IRNA quoted commander of the Iranian Army’s Ground Forces Brigadier General Ahmad-Reza Pourdastan as saying onWednesday night in a ceremony to mark the Army Day,   Read More ...

Iran’s oil minister Rostam Qasemi on Thursday raised the prospect of more cutoffs in oil sales to the European Union if sanctions imposed by the 27-nation bloc were not lifted by the next round of nuclear talks in Baghdad. “If the sanctions currently imposed against Iran would not be removed   Read More ...

The Swiss government has partially copied EU’s sanctions against Iran by having extended financial sanctions against this country but not freezing the assets of  its central bank and imposing an oil embargo. Extending its previously financial sanctions, Switzerland has frozen the assets of eight companies and three individuals on Tuesday. The   Read More ...

Iran’s Intelligence Ministry announced on Tuesday that 15 Israeli-linked spies and terrorists were arrested recently. Washington Post quoted IRNA as saying, more than 15 Iranian and foreign nationals have been arrested for allegedly spying for Israel, attempted assassination and sabotage. The Tuesday IRNA report says the group planned to assassinate an Iranian expert   Read More ...

Iran and six world powers asserted that they had made significant progress in talks in Istanbul on the Iranian nuclear programme, on Saturday. They would start talking about concrete steps towards a negotiated solution to the crisis at the next meeting, in Baghdad on 23 May. For over a year until   Read More ...

On the occasion of the National Army Day, the units of the Iranian Army are staging parades to show their defensive abilities and achievements. According to ISNA, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as well as many senior army officials including the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of Iran’s Armed   Read More ...

Ignoring the warnings about security flaws in Iran’s banking system, banking authorities sacrificed millions of Iranians. After finding security vulnerability in Iran’s banking system, Khosrow Zare’ Farid, an ex- software manager of a company called Eniak, wrote a formal report and sent it to the CEOs of all the affected banks across the country. When the banks ignored   Read More ...

The heavy rainfall in Iran capital of Tehran caused the flood in the streets on Sunday and the citizen faced a lot of problems in Tehran, such as disruption of transportation systems. The pro-government accused Ghalibaf, the mayor of Tehran, of mismanagement and inability and the pro-Ghalibaf declared it has nothing to   Read More ...

Oil, dollar and gold coin price suddenly fell after the first round of Iran and P5+1 talks ended constructively and the two sides agreed to hold another meeting in Baghdad on May 23. According to Washington post, the positive atmosphere of the Istanbul meetings eased the tensions that had sent   Read More ...

The constructive talks between Iran and the six world powers of P5+1 ended on Saturday with a decision to hold another round of talks in Baghdad on May 23. Catherine Ashton, the European Union’s foreign policy chief and lead negotiator for a bloc of six world powers said “the discussion on the   Read More ...

Michael Mann, spokesman for EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton, called the opening session of Saturday’s nuclear talks between six world powers and Iran ”positive and constructive.” Iran and the P5+1 – the US, Britain, France, China, Russia plus Germany – held talks on Tehran’s nuclear program in Istanbul on Saturday for   Read More ...

 Iran and the P5+1 – Russia, China, Britain, France, the US and Germany – are scheduled to resume talks and exchange views on a host of issues, particularly Iran’s nuclear energy program in Istanbul on Saturday.  According to Reuters, the meeting is widely seen as a chance for the powers and   Read More ...

Iranian nuclear delegation, headed by Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Saeed Jalili arrived in Istanbul on Friday morning for participation in a new round of talks with the Group 5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany). Ali Bagheri, deputy Secretary for Foreign Policy and International Security, is accompanying Jalili.   Read More ...

Iran’s nuclear program was one of the main issues dominated Wednesday discussions between foreign ministers from the Group of Eight leading industrialized democracies. Concerning about Iran’s nuclear program, United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the host of meeting, stressed that it was “urgent” for the Islamic republic to use   Read More ...

Iran continues its support for Kofi Annan’s six-point peace plan on the condition that reforms be implemented by Damascus government –Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, said Iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi in a joint press conference in Tehran with the UN-Arab League special envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan. Annan has put forward   Read More ...

Iran’s Intelligence ministry declared its forces have identified and captured a major terrorist team links to Israel. IRNA quoted Intelligence ministry as saying, the terrorists had planned to carry out terrorist operations inside the country but they were arrested before implementing their plan. The Ministry added that the Israeli-affiliated terrorists   Read More ...

After cutting oil exports to Greece as part of its countersanctions against the European Union, Iran has halted crude export to Spain. According to Washington Post, the Tuesday report quotes unnamed sources as saying the country has stopped the sale of crude to Spain as part of Tehran’s pre-emptive retaliation   Read More ...

Marathon of disagreements over the venue of Iran-5+1 group nuclear talks ended by Iran and officials from the Group 5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) eventually accepted to resume their talks in Istanbul, Turkey. Reuters quoted Michael Mann, a spokesman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine   Read More ...

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s recent remark in which he asserted that his nation “will never pursue nuclear weapons,” was considered as the cornerstone of Obama’s secret message to Iran. US President Barack Obama sent a secret verbal message to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, by way of Turkey, stating that   Read More ...

Ninth round of parliamentary elections results in Damavand and Firuzkuh were canceled, thereby Khatami’s vote was also canceled.   ISNA quoted Iran’s Guardian Council Spokesman Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei as saying after Guardian Council analysis, the results of the 9th round of parliamentary elections in the areas of “Damavand and Firuzkuh” and “Tonekabon, Ramsar, and Abbas Abad” were canceled. In   Read More ...

The mixed messages about attacking Iran over its nuclear program coming from the US and Israeli governments in recent weeks have become increasingly contradictory and bewildering. Maybe it’s all a game of bluff and psychological warfare. US defence secretary Leon Panetta has let it be known there is a “strong   Read More ...

Following Iran, 5+1 group disagreements over the venue of mid-April negotiation, Iran has proposed holding the next round of talks in Iraq instead of Turkey. The proposal comes as Istanbul has officially announced its readiness to host the negotiations, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has said on several occasions   Read More ...

Alef, the site run by an Iranian conservative Majlis member and the government critic, tries to dialogue with the  State Department Persian spokesman, Alan Eyre.  While US President Barack Obama vowed on last Friday (March 31) to forge ahead with tough sanctions on Iran and Supreme Leader of the Islamic   Read More ...

Does the Europe try to open its fortune in its relationship with Iran (in this year’s Sizdah Bedar) or it follows the same policy as United States adopted towards Iran? Sizdah Bedar, the thirteenth day of the New Year, also marks the end of the two weeks long Nowruz holidays.   Read More ...

Despite Iran is supposed to negotiate with the Group 5+1 in mid-April over its controversial nuclear program, Barack Obama took a new step to prevent compromising with Iran by vowing on Friday (March 31) to forge ahead with tough sanctions on Iran  to put more international pressure on this country over its nuclear enrichment program. The   Read More ...

Although, according to the Iranian media, Erdogan’s visit to Iran was successful, he had little success in persuading Iran to stop supporting the regime in Syria – his main purpose of visiting Iran.  Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Tehran on March 28 to review issues of mutual   Read More ...

Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, at the head of a high-ranking delegation arrived in Tehran from South Korea, where he attended a nuclear security summit and also held talks with President Barack Obama.  According to Press TV, during his two-day official visit to Iran, Erdogan is scheduled to hold talks with   Read More ...

Iran and the 5+1 group (five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany) have not yet reached a consensus on date and venue of the nuclear talks.  According to some media, Iran and group of six have agreed to meet on April 13 for new talks about Tehran’s   Read More ...

A quadrilateral summit was held among the presidents of Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Tajikistan in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe on Sunday. During the summit, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, and Tajik President Emomali Rahmon called for stronger cooperation, emphasizing that the   Read More ...

Foreign ministers of 27 EU states have imposed fresh sanctions against Iran. After a two-day meeting in Brussels ended, the European Union leaders agreed to impose sanctions on 17 Iranian officials; it says play a key role in serious human rights violations. The new names have extended the list to   Read More ...

Over the past centuries, Iran-Europe relations have experienced lots of ups and downs. Iran’s nuclear program and human rights issue are two major obstacles in relationships between Iran and Europe. However, Economic interests certainly play the important role in European union’s relationships with Iran. Their relations are at the critical point now. Since the   Read More ...

Nowruz, which coincides with the first day of spring on the solar calendar , is celebrated by the people of the lands that once formed the Persian Empire: Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and some former Soviet republics (Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan). Also the Parliament of Canada added Nowruz to the country’s national calendar. Nowruz,   Read More ...

As Nowruz holiday begins in Iran, everything is suspended for 15 days. Everything from negotiation to hostility will freeze, even oppositions outside the country have nothing to present. The only thing that never stops is politics. Iranian people, who consider themselves experts in all matters especially in politics, do not   Read More ...

 Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei congratulated the new Iranian year and named it as the “Year of National Production, Supporting Iranian Labor and Capital.” Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in a televised address issued a message on the first day of   Read More ...

On March 19th, 1951, Premier Mohammad Mosaddeq enforced the Oil Nationalization Bill, which ended British hegemony on Iran’s oil industry. From 1949 onwards, willing to nationalization of Iran’s oil industry increased. In 1949 the Majlis approved the First Development Plan (1948-55), which called for comprehensive agricultural and industrial development of   Read More ...

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT)  decided to disconnect Iranian banks  that are subject to sanctions imposed by EU. The international banking transfer system Swift is to cut ties with Iranian banks which are subject to EU sanctions. It is crucial to oil, financial transactions and other trades.   Read More ...

President Ahmadinejad appeared before the parliamentary to answer to MPs inquiries but he couldn’t convince them. At least, after lots of struggles over the motion of questioning Ahmadinejad, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appeared in the parliament to respond to the ten questions posed by 79 members of the parliament, on Wednesday.   Read More ...

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution  reappointed  Rafsanjani as the chairman of the Expediency Council. Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, appointed the head and the members of the Expediency Council for a five-year period, in a decree issued on Wednesday, official media reported. In this   Read More ...

The Oscar-winning Iranian film “Nader and Simin: A Separation” will be screened in the Japanese movie theaters. Internationally-acclaimed Iranian drama ‘A Separation’ is scheduled to be screened in several Japanese movie theaters from April 7, 2012. Premiered at the 29th Fajr International Film Festival, Farhadi’s family drama was screened in   Read More ...

Due to the recent changes in the political world (between Iran and world powers), peace breeze is apparently blowing  with the begining of Iranian new year. The changes began when in the first days of March, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany (5+1 group) accepted   Read More ...

After lots of struggles over the motion of questioning Ahmadinejad, 8th parliament MPs will eventually break the taboo of ‘questioning president’ on March 14. Members of the 8th parliament is ready to finish the most important unfinished work of the parliament, i.e. ‘Questioning President’, and  not to assign it to   Read More ...

The Iran’s Defense Ministry plans to promote exports of military equipment in the next year.  Iran’s Deputy Defense Minister Brigadier General Majid Bokaei stated that his ministry has initiated massive plans to promote the exports of arms and military equipment to friendly and neighboring countries in the new Iranian calendar   Read More ...

Iran’s courageous naval forces rescued Iranian oil tanker ‘Hatef’ from pirates on Saturday, IRNA reported. The Iranian oil tanker ‘Hatef’ moving towards Suez Canal from Khark Island was attacked by a group of pirates twice in Gulf of Aden, 80 miles away from Ras Fartak, but courageous and vigilant Iranian naval   Read More ...

Iranian Oscar-winning director, Asghar Farhadi backed home in Iran amid warm welcome of 1000s of fans and some of the Iranian cinema officials at Friday night. In response to rumors about his migration, the winner of the Iranian cinema’s first Oscar prize affirmed that I will stay my lifetime in   Read More ...

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei in a meeting with the members of the Assembly of Experts stated the Obama’s recent claims and added such remarks are good and pointed out a step out of illusion. According to Los Angeles Times, Obama Tuesday accused his Republican opponents of “beating the drums of   Read More ...

Dr. Simin Daneshvar, the creator of Suvashun, passed away in Tehran on March 8, 2012. After a period of illness, Daneshvar – an Ianian academic, novelist, fiction writer and translator – died at the age of 90, ISNA reported. Simin Daneshvar was born in 1921 in Shiraz.  She is the first   Read More ...

Rejecting a proposal to register temporary marriages, Iran’s members of Parliament said that the registration of temporary marriage is not mandatory except in some cases. At Monday public meeting, Sattar Hedayat Khah, the representative for Boyer-Ahmadand and the Spokesman of the Majlis Legal and Judicial Commission, proposed the registration of temporary   Read More ...

Sedigheh Zare’ie was post-graduated from Chabahar Maritime University as the first Iranian woman graduate with an MS degree in naval navigation, IRNA reported on Thursday. Chabahar Maritime University is located at the North East of the coastal city of Chabahar on the shore of Oman Gulf. According to CMU, the university is now one of the specialized   Read More ...

Iran would let U.N. nuclear inspectors to visit Parchin military site but under certain conditions, Iran’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency Ali Asghar Soltanieh said. Washington post quoted Ali Asghar Soltanieh as saying “Iran insists that the visit to the Parchin military complex, about 18 miles southeast of   Read More ...

The Chairman of the Thai-Iranian Business Council criticized US for leading a sanctions regime against Iran, saying it’s not just the Iranians who are being affected but us Thais as well, Press TV reported. Stressing that we have got nothing to do with any political issues, we’re just trying to   Read More ...

Western media have misunderstood the results of Iran’s parliamentary elections; both sides are the supporters of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Seyyed Ali Khamenei. Western media seem to have misunderstood the results of Iran’s 9th parliamentary elections, as the main competition was not between the supporters of Ahmadinejad and Supreme   Read More ...

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei,  ordered the establishment of the Supreme  Council of Cyberspace and appointed a numbers of the council,  in a decree issued on Wednesday, Khamenei.ir reported . The council will be headed by Iran’s president. It will compromises of Iranian officials, according to the decree.   Read More ...

The five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany (5+1 group) have agreed a new round of nuke talks with Tehran, the European Union informed Iranian officials Tuesday. Responding to a February letter from Iran’s chief negotiator and Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Secretary Saeed Jalili in which   Read More ...

Majlis Presiding Board spokesman told FNAreporter on Tuesday that the motion of ‘questioning Ahmadinejad’ will be reviewed in the Majlis open courtyard on March 11. Reporting Tuesday meeting of Members of the Board, Mohsen Kouhkan, representative of Lenjan and Presiding Board spokesman stated that the time of reviewing the motion of ‘questioning   Read More ...

After France and Britain, the Iranian Oil Ministry may also decide to halt oil exports to three more European countries – Belgium, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands, Mehr News Agency reported on Tuesday. After halting sales to Britain and France, Iran laid out conditions for future oil exports to   Read More ...

Iran’s Supreme Court on Monday nullified an execution sentence against an Iranian-American man accused of spying for the CIA. Iran’s Judiciary Spokesman Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei told reporters on Monday that the defendant has objected to the verdict handed down by the lower court and the Supreme Court has nullified the verdict,   Read More ...

Vote counting ended in the Iranian capital on Monday, but Parliamentary elections will have to be taken to a second round in Tehran because some candidates failed to reach the necessary vote threshold to be elected. According to Iranian law, parliamentary candidates must receive at least a quarter of the   Read More ...

One more bluff. Obama bluffed that he is not bluffing about attacking Iran. Barack Obama, who has repeatedly bluffed that “all options are on the table” to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, is trying to convince Israelis not to rush to war with Iran and warned them they   Read More ...

A number of prominent candidates were not able to win seats in the 9th parliament elections. Mostafa Kavakebian one of the outstanding of Reformist figures  was not reelected. He was a member of Reformist faction in the Parliament. Former deputy representative of the Supreme Leader in the Revolutionary Guards, Hojjat al-Eslam Mojtaba Zolnour failed to attend the 9th parliament.   Read More ...

In the current situation, commuting Malekpour’s death sentence would be a wise and calculated move. It is supposed that it is time to commute Malekpour’s death sentence. Iranian people’s mass participation in the 9th parliamentary elections and their strong support for the Establishment strengthened the international position of the Islamic Revolution   Read More ...

Iran’s state TV will broadcast the first Oscar-winning film, “A  Separation”, in Iranian New year holidays, Fars news agency reported. The state TV has bought the film certification and it would be shown in channel 1 of Iran’s TV on 29 March (10 Farvardin, the first month of Iranian calendar). “A   Read More ...

58 signatories of the motion of ‘Questioning Ahmadinejad’ failed to attend the 9th parliament, ISNA reported.  A new motion signed by 79 lawmakers was submitted to the Presiding Board of Iran’s Parliament to summon President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for questioning, finally the Presiding Board agreed with the lawmakers’ petition on Feb   Read More ...

Recent reports suggest the participation of at least 48 percent of people in Tehran and 65 percent in the whole country, FNA reported at 8 a.m. The statistics does not include the last hours of vote-counting. Because of people’s overwhelming turnout, Iranian officials extended voting time for Majlis elections by five   Read More ...

Iranian nation wrote the last page of the 70-page story of Iran’s 9th parliamentary elections by their vibrant presence at the polling stations which opened at 8 a.m. and was initially scheduled to continue until 6 p.m., but because of people’s overwhelming turnout, it was extended by 5 hours (11 p.m.).    Read More ...

Iranians desire to erase Israel from the world but it was faded during recent years but Israel’s extreme positions strengthen Iran’s will to wipe Israel off the scene of time.  Over the past several years, Iranians are expecting to wipe the Israel off the face of the world. It dates   Read More ...

Starting out voting, parliamentary elections marathon comes to a climax, After weeks of election excitement and debate over the ninth parliamentary elections. voting began across the country at 08:00 a.m. local time (0430 GMT) on Friday, and will continue until 06:00 p.m. (14:30 GMT). Through this elections, the combination of Iran’s parliamentary member and share of different political groups   Read More ...

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will attend Parliament’s open courtyard during the next week to answer the question of MPs. According to Tehran times, MP Reza Hosseini, the spokesman for the MPs who signed the motion to question the president, announced on February 1 that the MPs had not been convinced by the   Read More ...

Official electoral campaign was banned from 8 am today (Thursday) and all campaign headquarters were shut down.   The candidates of the 9th parliamentary election officially began their campaign on last Friday (Feb 23) at 8 am. ِDuring the week long campaign, Majlis candidates had the opportunity to introduce their plans to the public. Last night, Iran’s Election Headquarters announced after   Read More ...

The Guardian Council will have no re-entry for vetting qualifications, the Guardian Council Spokesman stated. Announcing 10 more of the primary disqualified candidates were qualified for participation in the election campaigns of the 9th parliament, Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei emphasized that qualification vetting was over. In addition to the eight candidates their   Read More ...

Iran’s Central Bank chief Mahmoud Bahmani says the country is going to pay for oil supplies in gold as well as the national currencies of importer countries instead of American dollar in its foreign transactions. “In its trade transactions with other countries, Iran does not restrict itself to the U.S.   Read More ...

While Spokesman for Iran’s Guardian Council announced that eight more candidates for the 9th parliamentary elections were qualified, Interior Minister said Guardian Council has not yet sent us the list of recently qualified candidates.   An extraordinary meeting was held in Guardian Council to examine the case of some candidates for   Read More ...

Iran won another round of conflict with Israel, but in a different ground.  Internationally-acclaimed Iranian drama ‘A Separation’ won the best foreign language film Oscar on Sunday. In the Best Foreign Language Film of the Year category, the Iranian family drama went up against Bullhead by Michael R. Roskam (Belgium), Footnote by Joseph Cedar (Israel), In Darkness by Agnieszka Holland (Poland), and Monsieur Lazharby Philippe Falardeau   Read More ...

Israeli officials say if they decide to launch a military attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, they will not notify the US. Israeli officials said that if they eventually decide a strike is necessary, they would keep the Americans in the dark to decrease the likelihood that the U.S. would be   Read More ...

Coalition of independent candidates distributed a different brochure – “The Day Amir Kabir Cried” – across the country.  Among different advertisements of the candidates, a different brochure titled “the Day Amir Kabir Cried” was also released, entiran reported. An informed source said the brochure which was used in the election   Read More ...

Iran refrained from delivering a 500,000-barrel shipment of oil  to the Greek tanker which was due to teransfer it to Hellenic Petroleum refinery. Meanwhile, Hellenic official declined it and told Reuters: “That has nothing to do with us … all supplies from Iran have been processed normally”. According to Tehran   Read More ...

A few hours ago, a new page was opened in the history of the Iranian cinema at the biggest night of the film industry at the Hollywood and Highland Center (formerly known as the Kodak Theatre). After days of waiting, Iranians eventually saw a happy ending to Farhadi’s  year of traveling   Read More ...

2012 Oscar countdown begins in Iran. Iranian internet users, who set a countdown timer to 2012 Oscar, have 7 breathtaking hours ahead. Iranians are impatiently waiting to see whether Farhadi’s “A Separation” brings Oscar to the country for the first time or not. According to abc news, Hollywood is keeping an eye   Read More ...

Internationally-acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi’s Nader and Simin: A Separation was awarded at the 2012 French César Awards, France’s equivalent of the Oscars. The César award for best foreign film went to Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation, which beat out a list that included such English-language films as Black Swan, Drive, The King’s   Read More ...

Issuing a statement, Qom Seminary Teachers Society invited noble Iranian nation to have enemy-breaker presence in the 9th parliamentary elections, IRNA reported.   In part of this statement, members of the Qom Seminary Teachers Society stated that passionate presence of the noble Iranian nation in the epic of February 11(22 Bahman) stunned the world.   Read More ...

Managing Director of the National Iranian Oil Company Ahmad Qalebani stated “Europeans accepted Iran’s oil condition for future oil exports to their countries,” ISNA reported.  Iran has laid out conditions for future oil exports to other European countries after halting sales to Britain and France earlier this week, the Iranian   Read More ...

On the third day of 9th Parliamentary elections campaign, Seyed Solat Mortazavi Head of Parliamentary Elections Headquarter said the fever of elections is heating up across the country, with posters, banners and leaflets at every street corner.   Seyed Solat Mortazavi told IRNA political reporter on Saturday since the election   Read More ...

  Malekpour, a web programmer from Canada was sentenced to death on charges “insulting and desecrating Islam”. Human rights groups and Media are trying to abolish the death penalty.  He was found guilty for managing some porn websites and his claims on developing uploder software is not true. Malekpour, 35,   Read More ...

An informed source in Iran’s Supreme Court says the Court has not handed down its final verdict in the case of an Iranian-born convert to Christianity, Yousef Nadarkhani, Press TV reports. According to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, the Supreme Court returned Nadarkhani’s case to the lower court in   Read More ...

Iranian Engineering Community commemorates “Engineers Day” on 24th February in memory of Khajeh Nasireddin Toosi one of the great scientist in Iran. Khajeh Nasireddin Toosi was born in Toos, Khorasan province, in 1201 AD and died in 1274 AD in Kazemain. Toosi was one of the greatest scientists, philosophers, mathematicians, astronomers,   Read More ...

Some representatives of the political spectrum participated in the ninth parliamentary elections, and a group of people in Tehran predict that more than 60 percent of eligible people would participate in the March 2 election, IRNA reported on Friday. One day after the starting of election campaign, Hossein Mozafar a   Read More ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi emphasized that one of the priorities of the Islamic Republic’s foreign policy is to promote security and stability in the region, particularly in the Strait of Hormuz. According to Mehr news agency, during a meeting with Omani Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah in   Read More ...

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennyadi Gatilov warned Israel against the consequences of attacking Iran, telling on Wednesday that such a strike “would be a catastrophe not only for the region but for the whole system of international relations.” “I hope Israel understands all these consequences … and they should also   Read More ...

As FNA reported, the candidates of the 9th parliamentary election officially began their campaign at 8 am today. They have the opportunity to continue their campaign until March 1.   According to the report, the candidates will compete for 290 Majlis seats until March 2. The head of election headquarters,   Read More ...

Interior Ministry’s Election Headquarter issued the name of 3, 269 candidates of the ninth parliamentary election. As IRNA reported, Interior Ministry’s Election Headquarter also emphasized that the candidates, who gave up after the final qualifications, are not in this list. Source: ISNA Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook   Read More ...

FNA quoted an informed source as saying participation of the ninth parliamentary candidates in televised debated was prohibited. An informed source, in an interview with FNA’s political reporter, announced that the ninth parliamentary candidates were barred from participating in TV and radio debates since groups in the election protested against   Read More ...

While less than two weeks left to the Iran’s ninth parliamentary elections, its 70-page story, which has started from December 24, is almost over. Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said on Dec 11 that registration for the 9th parliament elections took place nationwide on December 24-30, 2011. Candidates can refer   Read More ...

Mostafa Mohammad Najjar, Iran’s Interior Minister says more than 48 million people are eligible to vote in the upcoming parliamentary elections on March 2. He told reporters that 48,288,799 people are qualified to cast their ballots in the ninth parliamentary elections. He went on to say that over 5,400 had registered to contest   Read More ...

Saeed Malekpour, an Iranian web programmer with Canadian residency has been sentenced to death, on charges of “corrupting the earth”. Since Malekpour was sentenced to death two years ago, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, which made the charges against him, has publicized the web programmer’s case as an example to Iranians who   Read More ...

Spokesman for the Guardian Council said 3.444 candidates of the ninth parliamentary elections were confirmed, adding their names have been handed over to the Interior Ministry’s Election Headquarters. Abbasali Kadkhodaei emphasized that the Guardian Council has examined qualification of the candidates according to the law. He said those confirmed add up   Read More ...

Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi announced on Sunday that Turkish city of Istanbul will be the venue of the next round of talks between Iran and 5+1 group (the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China, and Germany). The announcement was made during a press conference in Tehran held by   Read More ...

A high-ranking delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has arrived in Tehran early on Monday morning. The delegation, headed by IAEA Deputy Director General Herman Nackaerts, arrived in Tehran for 2nd round of nuclear talks. Before the team departed on Sunday night, Herman Nackaerts said in Vienna airport,   Read More ...

Following Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi’s instruction to stop oil exports to Britain and France companies, Iran has ceased all oil exports to these countries in retaliation for EU oil embargo, Oil Ministry spokesman, Ali Reza Nikzad-Rahbar, said on Sunday. Nikzad-Rahbar said “Iran has no problem in selling and exporting   Read More ...

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Ground Forces launch a new round of military drills in the central province of Yazd on Feb. 19, Commander of IRGC ground forces Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour said on Saturday. The exercises codenamed “Val Fajr” are the third round of IRGC military drills in the   Read More ...

FNA correspondent was arrested and jailed in Baku by Forces of the national security ministry of Azerbaijan republic, Fars News Agency reported. According to the report, the security forces attacked the house of the FNA reporter on Thursday night and arrested him without any specific charge. Moreover, many other political   Read More ...

Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast on Friday dismissed the “baseless” remarks by French President Nicolas Sarkozy about Iran’s nuclear program. Sarkozy, in an interview with the quarterly Politique Internationale, said that Iran may face military action by Israel if it does not stop its threats and illegal nuclear activities, Bloomberg   Read More ...

The Iranian navy’s commander, Habibollah Sayyari, announced on Saturday that the 18th navy battle group transited through the Suez Canal. Speaking to Commanders and personnel in the Navy, Habibollah Sayyari stated that Iran’s naval strategy has crossed the Suez Canal for the second time since the Islamic Revolution of Iran.   Read More ...

Pakistan will not supply Americans airbases to launch attack on its neighbour, Iran, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said after the third trilateral summit of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. Also, Pakistan’s president vowed to continue with a proposed pipeline project with Iran despite American warnings of sanctions, saying Islamabad’s relations   Read More ...

Iran had stopped oil exports to Italy, Spain, Netherlands, France, Greece and Portugal in retaliation for an EU’s oil embargo, Iran’s media reports said on Wednesday The announcement came after Director General of West Europe Affaires at Foreign Ministry, Hassan Tajik, summoned six EU envoys for talks on different issues   Read More ...

President Ahmadinejad unveiled the other nuclear achievements on Wednesday. According to the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, the fuel rods have been domestically produced at Isfahan nuclear facility (Natanz) and loaded into the Tehran Research Reactor, under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors. In this ceremony, several   Read More ...

Washington played down Iran’s latest announcement, saying its reported advances were “not terribly new and not terribly impressive.” “We frankly don’t see a lot new here. This is not big news. In fact it seems to have been hyped,” a State Department spokeswoman said. Many Foreign news agencies also considered   Read More ...

Iran’s chief negotiator and Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Secretary Saeed Jalili replied to a letter sent nearly four months ago by EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton proposing a resumption of nuclear talks with the G5+1. In a letter, written by chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili in response to   Read More ...

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast called Canadian Foreign Minister’s recent remarks, baseless, saying that such baseless claims bear no value to show any reaction. Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird recently said that Iran was pursuing military purposes in its nuclear program and also suggested that a scenario similar to   Read More ...

Iranian patrol boats and planes have tracked the American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, along with two American warships, as it passed through the strategic Strait of Hormuz under the close aerial and naval surveillance of Iranian forces on Tuesday. Rear Admiral Troy Shoemaker, commander of the Abraham Lincoln Carrier   Read More ...

After Iranian oil ministry threatened to cut oil exports to EU countries,  Iran state media (Press TV) announced to cut oil exports to six EU countries, but less than an hour foreign media said that Iran’s Oil Ministry denied it. “We deny this report … If such a decision is made, it   Read More ...

American actor and documentary filmmaker Sean Stone, the son of Oliver Stone, converted to Islam on Tuesday in Iran, where he is making a documentary. He went to the office of Shia cleric Ayatollah Mohammad Nasseri Dowlatabadi in the city of Isfahan on Tuesday and recited shahada, Tehran times quoted   Read More ...

Iran unveils several major achievements in nuclear technology on Wednesday, February 15.  Iran will unveil “major accomplishments in nuclear technology” in the next few days despite increasing Western pressure over the country’s nuclear program, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in the Saturday speech, marking the 33rd anniversary of the 1979   Read More ...

“Iranian experts possess adequate knowledge to confront cyber threats. All nuclear facilities in the country are immune from cyber attacks,” Head of Iran’s civil defense organization General Gholam Reza Jalali said on Monday. Tehran’s nuclear and other industrial facilities suffer periodic cyber attacks, but the country has the technology to   Read More ...

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast rejected Zionist regime accusation on Iranian involvement in the car bombings, calling it “baseless.” An explosion has destroyed an Israeli diplomat’s car in New Delhi. A bomb targeting the Israeli embassy in Tbilisi has also been defused, Russia Today reported on Monday. The Israeli   Read More ...

Deputy Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Baqeri met Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu in Tehran on Sunday. In the first round of talks, the two sides discussed the issue of bilateral ties as well as regional and international developments. The Chinese official urged continuation of exchanging   Read More ...

Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011. Damascus blames outlaws, saboteurs and armed terrorist groups for the unrest, insisting that it is being orchestrated from abroad. Iran’s Ambassador to Damascus Mohammad Reza Raouf Sheibani says the only way out of the crisis in Syria is dialogue and consultations among   Read More ...

IRGC has planned to increase new military exercises by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (starting March 21), Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Ground Force Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour announced on Sunday. Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Forces have successfully completed their latest military exercises,   Read More ...

In a Sunday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry has summoned the Azeri envoy to complaint severely against the presence and unlimited activity of Mossad intelligence agents in Azerbaijan which is an refuge to the Mossad-trained assassins of Iranian nuclear scientists, who are involved in espionage activities against the Islamic Republic. Iran also showed objection   Read More ...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said “Iran will soon announce very important nuclear achievements” when He was speaking at a rally in Tehran to mark the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic revolution to a crowd at Tehran’s Azadi (freedom) Square broadcast on state television. He stated Iran would never give up   Read More ...

Millions of Iranians took to the streets to show their support for the Islamic Republic through staging massive rallies on February 11th, marking the 33rd anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. The demonstrations have kicked off in more than 850 Iranian cities and towns as well   Read More ...

Google and it’s main service Gmail have been blocked since 2 days ago in Iran. Accessing to some google services, like Youtube was restricted previously but services like Gmail and Google translate were opened to use. Blocking Gmail faced reaction of all Internet users including pro government and anti government   Read More ...

Following Riyadh’s claim to compensate for the loss of Iranian oil in the global market, EU foreign ministers agreed an oil embargo against Iran and a freeze on the assets of its central bank. Then, Iranian officials warned Saudi Arabia not to drag into the dangerous position made by the   Read More ...

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that former followers of the forces of imperialism are now on the same front as Iran. “Today, the Iranian nation’s slogans prevail in the region, and the countries that used to be followers of the global arrogance   Read More ...

Iran said Tuesday that the IAEA delegation would visit the country late February. Returning from a three-day talk in Tehran on February 1, a senior team from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released a statement saying a new meeting would take place on Feb 21-22 in the Iranian capital.   Read More ...

The First image of Navid Satellite of the Strait of Hormuz was received and transmitted, FNA reported a few hours ago. Hossein Bolandi , , reported that today at 4:33 PM, we could take the first real time image of the Strait of Hormuz by Navid Satellite in the worst   Read More ...

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader,  stressed that Hezbollah receives from Iran the moral, political and material support in all its available forms since 1982 and that this support was instrumental in the defeat of Israel; however, at the same time Iran had never dictated conditions in exchange for its support,   Read More ...

Spain is the great sufferer of the EU’s recent sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran, said Spain’s new ambassador to Tehran. “Spain suf fers the heaviest damage from the continuation of EU-backed embargoes against Iran and has always expressed support for the resumption of talks and negotiations between Tehran   Read More ...

In response to Iran’s oil embargo by European Union, Iranian lawmakers have announced its readiness to impose ban oil exports to certain EU states. Iranian lawmakers keep a watchful eye on a number of important issues including a ban on Iran’s oil exports to European countries, said Iranian parliament speaker   Read More ...

The Fajr International Film Festival is Iran’s annual film festival, held every February in Tehran. The festival, started in 1982, is under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture in Iran. It takes place every year on the anniversary of the Iranian revolution. The closing ceremony of the International Section   Read More ...

Eleven of the 29 Iranian pilgrims and engineers, who were recently kidnapped by unknown terrorists in Syria, have been released through the joint efforts of Iran and Turkey. A total number of 11 Iranian pilgrims have been freed through cooperation with friendly countries, Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast told reporters   Read More ...

Iran has arrested a number of people, who had been working secretly for the Persian language service of the BBC, the Mehr News Agency reported on Monday. According to the informed source, a number of deceived people, who were tasked with collecting news and information in Iran for the BBC,   Read More ...

Iran’s Navy warships have foiled a pirate attack on an Iranian oil tanker close to the Bab el-Mandeb strait, which connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden off the coast of lawless Somalia, Press TV reported. The late Sunday report says the Iranian navy rushed to the site   Read More ...

Referring to the media reports and knock-on debates about potential war against Iran, former military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin told Israel Radio “I think we have reached a surfeit point, a climax, and it would best to lower the tone.” Amos Yadlin also stated that the world needed less discussion   Read More ...

Barack Obama has said he believes Israel remains undecided about a possible attack on Iran, as the threat of war between the two nations continues to escalate. He rejected the earlier claims that Israel was planning to attack Iran over the controversial nuclear programme which escalated tensions in the Middle   Read More ...

Iran will target any country which hosts for military action against it, Gen. Hossein Salami, deputy commander of the elite Revolutionary Guard announced. However, he stressed that Iran will not initiate any war. His comments appeared to be a warning to Iran’s neighbors not to let their territory or airspace be   Read More ...

An earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale jolted the town of Khormoj in Bushehr province, Southern Iran, on Sunday, Fars News Agency reported. The Seismological center of Bushehr province affiliated to the Geophysics Institute of Tehran University registered the quake at 09:40 hour local time (0610 GMT). According to   Read More ...

The news of starting of the “Hamiyane Velayat” (Supporters of Velayat) drill in southern Iran has had wide reflection in the world media.  Meanwhile, particularly Western news sites and news agencies have paid special attention to this subject and covered related news about it. Reporting this news, Washington Post has written that the   Read More ...

Iran will certainly stop exporting crude oil to some of European countries in response to the recent oil embargo on the country, Iranian Oil Minister, Rostam Qasemi, said. “We will not abandon our just nuclear course, even if we cannot sell one drop of oil,” said Rostam Qasemi. “Our oil   Read More ...

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei answered severely to Israel and other supporters of attack to Iran in the Friday prayers sermons in Tehran, over a tense week and discussing possible attack on Iran in the near future. “we interfered in confrontations against Israel, which resulted in   Read More ...

The United States, and many of its European allies, suspect that Iran is using its civilian nuclear program as a cover to develop the atomic bomb. Iran denies this, saying that its program is solely for civilian uses such as power generation. US and Israel feel pressure from Iran but   Read More ...

Eleven more Iranian pilgrims were kidnapped in Syria. The abductions come less than a week after 11 other Iranian pilgrims were kidnapped after entering Syria across the Turkish border. “Their bus was on its way … to Damascus when it was attacked by an armed group and 11 out of 35   Read More ...

The symbolic ceremony was held in commemoration of the arrival of Imam, faced negative reaction of pro government users and scornful reaction of opposition, as well. A cardboard image of Iranian supreme leader was displayed by the soldiers of the Air Force, in this ceremony. See more photos in our Facebook Page here. Source of photos:  Mehr. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on   Read More ...

Iran  completed a “constructive” round of talks with the IAEA delegation on Tuesday and further meetings are planned, Reuters quoted Iran’s the semi-official Fars news agency. A high-ranking delegation of the IAEA, headed by the agency’s Deputy Director General Herman Nackaerts and its number two Rafael Grossi, arrived in Tehran on   Read More ...

A top Senate Democrat and Republican on Monday unveiled a bill to impose extensive new economic sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran over its nuclear activities. The U.S. Senate Banking Committee released details of its 61-page bipartisan bill late on Monday and senators will consider the measures and vote   Read More ...

Taking a wide step in designing military equipment, the Iranian Defense Ministry unveiled a domestically manufactured smart laser-guided  projectile, named the Basir, during a ceremony held on Monday ahead of the Ten-Day Dawn celebrations (February 1-11) marking the anniversary of the victory of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. “This ammunition is   Read More ...

Iran’s ex-president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, said on Saturday that as he had announced before no candidate or political group enjoys his support in the next parliamentary elections,  the semi-official Mehr news agency reported on Sunday. “As I had said before in the next election I have supported no party, candidate,   Read More ...

The bill that would cut off oil supplies to the EU will be discussed by the representatives from Foreign Ministry, Intelligence Ministry and Oil Ministry in Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy committee, on Tuesday. Spokesman for the Majlis Energy Committee Emad Hosseini said on Sunday that no bill had   Read More ...

India has refused to bow to Washington’s pressure on Delhi to cut oil imports from Iran, saying it will continue to buy Iranian oil despite US and EU sanctions, India’s Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee told reporters in Chicago at the end of a two-day visit. India, the world’s fourth-largest petroleum   Read More ...

A Russian Pilot,  Published some fresh Photo from Iran’s Fighter Jets (various type from F5 to F14). He added that they were in the way of home (Russia) and they passed from Iran’s Sky. While they were passing Iran’s sky, IRAF Fighter Jets escorted them. More Pics at our Facebook page here.   Read More ...

Iran’s Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani arrived in Jakarta on Sunday, January 29, to attend in the 7th General Assembly Meeting of Islamic Inter Parliamentary Union (IIPU) in Palembang, Indonesia. Larijani is scheduled to deliver a speech in IIPU meeting and confer with his counterparts as well as other top officials   Read More ...

The six-member IAEA team of senior officials and experts, headed by Nackaerts, International Atomic Energy Agency chief inspector, arrived at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport for a three-day visit to Iranian nuclear facilities in the early hours of Sunday morning. In November 2011, the UN nuclear watchdog released a report   Read More ...

Members of the Iranian parliament finalized a draft bill to ban all oil exports to European countries in reaction to the bloc’s recent decision to ban oil imports from Iran, Vice Chairman of Iran’s Parliamentary Energy Commission Nasser Soudani said on Saturday. The Iranian MPs decided to work out the   Read More ...

Iranian officials warned Saudi Arabia not to drag into the dangerous position made by the United States policies against Tehran. Following US oil embargo against Iran, Riyadh claimed to compensate for the loss of Iranian oil in the global market. Saudi Arabia pointed out last week that it could make   Read More ...

The European Union decision to impose oil sanctions on Iran is aimed at affecting the upcoming parliamentary elections, said Tehran’s interim Friday prayers leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ahmad Khatami. Khatami affirmed that the EU decision to implement the new sanctions after a six-month period clearly shows the bloc’s efforts to influence   Read More ...

Responding to the EU a 6-month phase-in of the embargo on Iranian oil that the bloc agreed on On January 23 as part of a raft of tough new Western sanctions aimed at forcing Iran to curb its nuclear program, “on Sunday, parliament will approve a ‘double emergency’ bill calling for   Read More ...

Unidentified gunmen kidnapped 11 Iranian pilgrims in Syria en route Halab city to Damascus, the Iranian IRNA news agency reported on Thursday. According to the Associated Press, a bus with 49 Iranians was stopped after leaving the town of Halab on Thursday and the gunmen abducted 11 young men from   Read More ...

Exchange rate dollar to rials increased rapidly in recent weeks.  Also the Golden Coins was staggeringly expensive. Many analysts were predicting the gold coin prices would increasing by EU’s sanctions on Iran and Iran would face major economic problems. European Union ambassadors agreed on 23 jan to impose an embargo   Read More ...

India has agreed to pay the price of crude oil it imports from Iran in gold, which makes it the first country to drop the US dollar for purchasing the Iranian oil. China, another buyer of Iranian oil, may follow Delhi’s lead. Delhi’s move is seen as surprising, as earlier   Read More ...

The United States threatened to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon and will take no options off the table to achieve that goal, U.S. President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union address on Tuesday. Obama added: “But a peaceful resolution of this issue is still possible,   Read More ...

Internationally-acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi’s ‘A Separation’ has been nominated in two categories at the 2012 Academy Awards. A few hours ago, Tom Sherak, Academy president, and Jennifer Lawrence, American actress, unveiled the nominees of 24 categories of the 84th Academy Awards. As it was expected, the 2011 Golden Globe Award   Read More ...

Compounding the effect of European oil embargo and sanctions on Iran’s central bank, the US Treasury Department blacklisted Bank Tejarat, Iran’s 3rd-largest bank, on Monday. Thus, Bank Tejarat, which has nearly 2,000 branches in Iran and branches in France and Tajikistan, along with Trade Capital Bank will no longer be   Read More ...

Two prominent Iranian lawmakers said if US wants to attack Iran or impose oil embargo on this country, we will close the Strait of Hormuz and make the entire world unsafe for American forces. If US-led Western states proceed with threats to impose an oil embargo on Iran, the country   Read More ...

Under the deal, EU governments will have to stop signing new contracts with Tehran from the moment the ban comes into place – probably as soon as this week – but will be able to fulfill existing contracts until 1 July, Guardian reported. European Union ambassadors agreed on Monday to   Read More ...

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast rejected the allegations made by French President Nicolas Sarkozy about Iran’s nuclear program as “far from reality”, and insisted that Iran’s nuclear activities are aimed at producing energy for peaceful purposes. Mehman Parast said he was surprised at the “baseless and far from reality   Read More ...

Seventeen people have died after a storm capsized a passenger boat off of Iran’s southern coast. Rescue teams saved five people, a provincial sailing official, Hossein Khoshbakht, the nation quoted IRNA. The boat sank Saturday evening while sailing between Hormuz Island, the most northern piece of land at the entrance of   Read More ...

An Iranina Sunni clerics who was the Friday prayers leader of the town of Rask in southeastern Iran has been assassinated on Saturday, Press TV reported. Molavi Mostafa Jangi Zehi was killed on the Chabahar-Sarbaz road in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan late on Friday. The cleric had escaped assassination in   Read More ...

Press TV started broadcasting on the Sky platform around 3 years ago to offer an alternative viewpoint to British viewers who could only access the mainstream media. Press TV, the Iranian state broadcaster’s English-language outlet, has been forced off the air in the UK after  revoked its license for breaching   Read More ...

Washington and Tel Aviv have repeatedly threatened Tehran with the option of a military strike based on the allegation that Iran’s nuclear program may consist of a covert military aspect. And, Iranian officials have promised a crushing response to any military strike against the country, warning that any such measure could   Read More ...

After Iran Central Bank adopted new measures to organize foreign currency market, the supervisory deputy of Iran’s Central Bank announced that holders of foreign currencies without invoice have the opportunity to deposit or purchase them through bank offices until February 4th, 2012. Ebrahim Darvishi added that after the 18-day deadline, discovered currencies will   Read More ...

Defence Minister Ehud Barak said on Wednesday that Israel was “very far off” from a decision about an attack on Iran over its nuclear program. Barak was speaking on Israel’s Army Radio ahead of a planned visit this week by U.S. armed forces chief General Martin Dempsey that has triggered   Read More ...

The release of Golshifteh Farahani’s topless photo has prompted different reactions in cyberspace. The most different views were created by Iranian bloggers and users of social networks. Some bloggers and users, who believed in “women’s body is her own”, stated that Golshifteh Farahani has the right to do as she   Read More ...

The threat of more sanctions as well as the possibility of military action against Iran are linked to concerns about its uranium enrichment program. The U.S. and its Western allies suspect it is aimed at developing nuclear weapons. Iran insists its efforts are designed for civilian power generation and research.   Read More ...

Iranian people, who are delighted by Asghar Farhadi’s proud success at the Golden Globes, impatiently wait for his Oscar. Oscar’s organizers unveiled Wednesday a shortlist of 9 foreign language movies vying for an Academy Award next month. And expectedly, Farhadi’s “A Separation” was one of the nominees. The list, which   Read More ...

The releasing of a half-naked photo of the Iranian actress, Golshifteh Farahani, shocked Iranian people who had been thrilled by Asghar Farhadi’s proud success at the Golden Globes. In the last hours of Tuesday, a half-naked photo of Golshifteh Farahani, who left her country and joined Hollywood, was released in   Read More ...

A group of Iranian youths decided to produce and begin selling a toy in the form of a US drone RQ-170 at their own expense, Iranian Radio Payam, the state radio, reported. The idea of designing  US drone toy was suggested by  one of a friendfeed user and then another   Read More ...

Parastoo Dokoohaki and Marzieh Rasouli,  Iranian bloggers and journalists  were arrested  in Tehran. Also,  photojournalist Sahamoddin Bourghani was arrested. On Sunday evening,  Parastoo Dokoohaki was arrested. She has been charged with “propaganda against the Islamic Republic.” Dokoohaki, former journalist, has been working with “Shariati Foundation” in the field of translation and edition, and   Read More ...

These days the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and assassination of the nuclear scientist are two top news on Iranian weblogs. Some Persian bloggers take the side of Iran in current tension and defend Iran’s right for closing the Strait of Hormuz in the event of military strike or   Read More ...

In the beginning stages of an effort to lobby for international support for the sanctions against Iran to put pressure on this country to abandon its nuclear program, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner met with officials in Japan and China. While Japan’s finance minister promised to take steps to reduce   Read More ...

President Barak Obama entered the White House in 2009 carrying an olive branch for Iran, determined to show the world that Washington would not play the villain in a relationship marked by blood and bitterness over three decades, but now it seems that Obama’s olive branch to Iran turned into sanctions hammer. At present,   Read More ...

After Shariatmadari, the editor in chief of daily Kayhan , a hardline newspaper close to IRGC, Promised a Merciless Retaliation‘, Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi underscored that the US, Israeli and British spy agencies were involved in the recent terrorist attack against an Iranian scientist, and added that Iran will give   Read More ...

Since  Asghar Farhadi’s film- Nader and Simin, A Separation was released, he has been continuously criticized for different reasons. Despite receiving domestic and international awards, Iranian director, Asghar Farhadi has dealt with several criticisms since the release of Nader and Simin, A Separation.   The film was initially invaded by some media for inducing disappointment to the   Read More ...

The US president had sought support from Dmitry Medvedev and Hu Jintao as he seeks to rein back Iran’s nuclear ambitions, but he got no public endorsement from either of them. Russia and China are reluctant to back the US in its push to tighten international sanctions on Iran. It’s necessary   Read More ...

Whereas China slashes US sanctions on a Chinese company, the Zhuhai Zhenrong Corp, US warns to impose further sanctions on Chinese state-run oil giants. US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner came away empty handed from Beijing, which refused to bow to U.S. pressure to add its economic might in the campaign   Read More ...

After US and EU stepped up sanctions to curb Iran’s oil exports, Gulf  States, specially Saudi Arabia, decided to increase their oil output to make up for any shortfall in the Iranian oil exports to other countries. Referring to unpredictable consequences of the Gulf States’ decision, Tehran’s OPEC Governor Mohammad Ali Khatibi said, “Iran has warned   Read More ...

Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Mohammad Khazaei, has expressed deep concern over the “inhumane acts of terrorism” against Iranian scientists, urging the world body to strongly condemn such “foreign-sponsored” measures.  The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office issued a statement condemning the killing of an Iranian nuclear scientist on Wednesday   Read More ...

Israeli army chief Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz said 2012 is “the critical year that connects between the continuation of Iran’s nuclearization, the internal changes in the Iranian leadership, continued pressure from the international community and the things that happen to them unnaturally.” Gantz was referring to several mysterious blasts that rocked Iranian   Read More ...

After the UN’s nuclear watchdog said Iran had begun enriching uranium to a higher grade than is needed for power generation, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner visited China and Japan prime ministers to convince them no to import oil form Iran in order to reduce the earnings Iran derives from   Read More ...

An Iranian university professor and deputy director at Natanz enrichment facility was killed in a terrorist bomb blast in a Northern Tehran neighborhood on Wednesday morning, Fars reported. Ahmadi-Roshan, 32, was reportedly a chemistry expert and in charge of a commercial affairs at the nuclear site. Two assailants on a   Read More ...

At least 33 Iranian MPs were told on Tuesday that their candidacies had not been approved even though they currently serve in the parliament. Many reformist MPs and even some conservatives are among those barred from running in the March vote, which the country’s intelligence minister has described as “the   Read More ...

Uranium enrichment at Fordo nuclear facility near the city of Qom, which is used for producing up to 20 percent enriched uranium faced with different reactions in the world. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated on Tuesday that Iran’s uranium enrichment at Fordo runs counter to its obligations made   Read More ...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Nicaragua on Tuesday. Ahmadinejad called Ortega, the Nicaraguan President, his “brother president”, Xinhuanet reported. As CNN reported, despite their cultural differences, Venezuela and Iran have found significant common ground: Both are among the world’s top crude oil exporters, and their leaders are strong allies   Read More ...

On the second anniversary of the martyrdom of Majid Shahriari, a well-known Iranian nuclear scientist on January 11, 2012, another nuclear scientist, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, was assassinated in a terrorist blast in northern of Tehran, near a college of Allameh Tabatabaei University on Wednesday. Ahmadi Roshan, 32, was a graduate   Read More ...

Press TV- Iran and Venezuela have signed two memoranda of understanding (MoU) and a joint statement in line with the declared resolve of both nations to expand bilateral ties in all fields.  Based on the agreements, Tehran and Caracas will expand cooperation in the fields of industry, science and Nano-technology,   Read More ...

Iran has further stoked Western fears about the purpose of its nuclear activities by starting to enrich fissile material in a new site deep inside a virtually impregnable mountain bunker, AFP quoted France24. BBC- In Washington, state department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said on Monday that enrichment works at Fordo, near the city   Read More ...

There are different propositions regarding Ahmadinejad’s four-nation tour of Latin America. Before Ahmadinejad’s tour to Latin American countries, US and other western countries claimed that the tour was a sign of desperation as sanctions increasingly isolate his country. They also asserted that Iran is flailing for new friends as the   Read More ...

Diplomats on Monday confirmed a report that Iran has begun uranium enrichment at an underground bunker and said the news is particularly worrying because the site is being used to make material that can be upgraded more quickly for use in a nuclear weapon than the nation’s main enriched stockpile.   Read More ...

Former U.S. Marine Amir Mirzaei Hekmati has accused of working for the CIA and sentenced to death penalty for spying after convicting at an Iranian court. He is asserted to have received special training and worked for US military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan. The case would intensify the tension between   Read More ...

Denying rumors about resignation of the head of the Central Bank - In a week when the currency hit a record low amid rising inflation and concerns about tighter economic sanctions, some news agencies issued news about the resignation of Mahmoud Bahmani, the head of the Central Bank. But, Reuters quoted ISNA news agency “a senior Central   Read More ...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad planned to visit Latin American countries (Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and Ecuador) on Sunday (January 8), to discuss bilateral ties and regional and international issues with Latin American leaders. On this trip, Ahmadinejad will be accompanied by his ministers for foreign affairs, trade, commerce and mines and   Read More ...

Iran plans to conduct different military drill in the Strait of Hormuz in February, according to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s naval commander, Ali Fadavi, after threatening to close the strait and completing another set of maneuvers. The semiofficial Fars news agency late Thursday quoted that the Iranian naval commander, as   Read More ...

The Strait of Hormuz is considered one of the most, if not the most strategic strait of water on the planet. Oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz account for roughly 40% of all world traded oil, and the 17 MMBD or more of oil that normally are shipped through   Read More ...