28 Mar 2024
Monday 29 April 2013 - 21:17
Story Code : 26369

Iran hosts "Islamic Awakening Conference”

Iran news headlines on Monday include conference of ‘Scholars and Islamic Awakening’ in Tehran; Iran's Rafsanjani expressing soft stance on Israel; exploration an underground natural gas reservoir in southern Iran; Iranian Foreign Ministry rejection of US report on Iran’s human rights and Germany accusing 4 of US embargo violation.
 
‘Scholars and Islamic Awakening’ conference opens in Tehran
An international conference, dubbed ‘Scholars and Islamic Awakening,’ has opened in Iran’s capital, Tehran, with a speech by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei. Addressing the conference on Monday, Ayatollah Khamenei said the Islamic Awakening is the main issue of the Muslim world and Islamic Ulmah.

 
Iran’s ex-president softens stance toward Israel
Iran’s influential former president has expressed a softer stance toward the country’s archenemy Israel in sharp contrast to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’ typical anti-Israel remarks. Several Iranian newspapers, including the pro-reform Shargh daily, on Monday quoted Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani as saying: “We are not at war with Israel.”

 
‘Gas reservoir explored in S Iran’
National Iranian Oil Company’s exploration director, Hormuz Ghalavand says the country has explored an underground natural gas reservoir in the southern Iran Fars province. “It is predicted that the vast natural gas reservoir starts from Borazjan (the capital of Dashtestan county, Bushehr province) and stretches into Minab fault line and Persian Gulf coastline,” the senior official said on Sunday.


 
Spokesman raps US report on Iran’s human rights
The Iranian Foreign Ministry rejected Washington’s claims about the violation of human rights in Iran, stressing that the US is a major violator of human rights and is, thus, not qualified to judge on Iran.

 
Germany charges 4 with sending Iran reactor parts
Federal prosecutors say they have charged three German-Iranian dual nationals and a German man with breaking export laws for allegedly supplying Iran with parts needed to build a nuclear reactor in violation of the country’s trade embargo.

 

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