By Iran Sport Press Irans Greco-Roman wrestlers Hamid Sourian and Ghasem Rezaei dedicated their gold medals at London Olympics to the victims of the recent earthquakes that struck north-western Iran. Hamid Sourian defeated Azerbaijan's Rovshan Bayramov in the 55kg weight class and won Irans first ever Greco-Roman Olympic gold. Ghasem Rezaei ...

By Fars News Agency TEHRAN (FNA)- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei on Thursday paid a visit to the quake-hit areas in Northwestern Iran where two strong earthquakes killed over 300 people in East Azarbaijan province on Saturday. Ayatollah Khamenei closely visited and sympathized with the survivors of the tragic ...

By Bloomberg Iransaid it is ready to receive foreign aid to assist survivors of two earthquakes in the countrys northwest after earlier declining offers of help. Our country has, on various occasions, provided help to victims of accidents in other countries, Iranian Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi said, according to the state-runMehrnews ...

By BBC The United States has said it will temporarily lift sanctions for US-based non-governmental organisations that want to send financial aid to help Iran's earthquake relief effort. Until now US sanctions allowed food and medicines to be sent to Iran for humanitarian reasons, but not money. Iran initially declined outside aid after two strong ...

By Trend The victims of the earthquake in Iran's East Azerbaijan province were honoured during a football match in Iran. On Friday, a football game was held between the team Fajr-e sepasi (Shiraz) and the Seba (Qum), the Iranian IRNA news agency reported on Saturday. Prior to the match, players and fans observed a minute of silence in memory ...

Byswissinfo.ch Swiss humanitarian aid workers arrived in Iran on Friday and made their first tour of the areas in the north west of the county which were devastated by twin earthquakes last Saturday. Bernhard Huwiler, leader of the four-person Swiss humanitarian team, told swissinfo.ch by telephone from his hotel room that in one village near ...

ByInformation-Analytic Agency NEWS.am YEREVAN. The Government of Armenia has adopted a decision to provide humanitarian assistance to victims of the devastating earthquakethat hit Iran on August 11. Relief equipment worth close to AMD 37 million (approx. $ 89,950) has been allocated for this purpose. Armenias humanitarian assistance to Iran ...

By Al Monitor As the Obama administration continues to weighoptions for aiding earthquake victimsin Iran, an ever more complex web of US sanctions is depriving Iranians with life-threatening conditions of the drugs and other medical products they desperately need, according totwo letters obtained by Al-Monitor one from the Iranian Hemophilia Society ...

By New York Times The deadly double earthquakes inIranover the weekend, the first natural disaster there since the United States imposed onerous financial sanctions on that country because of its disputednuclear program, have raised worries among Iranian-Americans about where to send donations and whether such aid is even legal. American officials ...

By USA Today TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Iran has raised the death toll from Saturday's twin earthquakes to at least 306, a day after rescuers called off the search for survivors. Heath Minister Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi told a session of parliament Monday that the number jumped by about 50 after victims expired in the hospital. More than 3,000 people were ...

By Telegraph Iranian hospitals were struggling to cope with thousands of wounded people yesterday in the aftermath of twin earthquakes that left an estimated 250 people dead. Rescue operations were called off after officials said all survivors had been found following Saturday's 6.4 and 6.3 magnitude earthquakes that flattened villages in the ...

By Reuters (Reuters) - Here is a timeline of some of the major earthquakes inIranin the past four decades: April 10, 1972 - An earthquake measuring 7.1 magnitude struck southern Iran around Ghir Karzin, killing 5,074 people. September 16, 1978 - 15,000 people were killed by an earthquake measuring 7.8 magnitude, which leveled the eastern desert ...

By Business Recorder BERLIN: Germany on Sunday offered condolences and aid to Iran after devastating earthquakes claimed the lives of at least 227 people and reduced scores of villages in the northwest of the country to rubble. Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said in a letter to his Iranian counterpart Ali Akbar Salehi that he was "shocked" ...

By Pakistan Today ISLAMABAD-President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf while expressing grief and shock over the loss of life and property caused by earthquake in the Iranian city of Tabriz said Pakistan's stood with the brotherly country in this hour of trial. In their separate messages of condolence to Iranian President ...

By Fox News Northwestern Iran was struck Saturday by a series of major earthquakes and strong aftershocks, as state TV reported at least 250 dead, 2,000 injured and at least six villages leveled. Images broadcast on the main news channel showed dozens of families of sleeping outdoors in parks, with blankets laid out on the ground. Some were crying,...

By Reuters (Reuters) - Two strong earthquakes struck northwestIranon Saturday,killing 87 people, injuring hundreds and scaring thousands into fleeing their homes as aftershocks continued to hit the area, Iranian state media said. Iran is straddled by several major fault lines and has suffered several devastating earthquakes in recent years, including ...

By Business Recorder TEHRAN: A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 struck on Saturday near the northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz, Tehran University's Seismological Centre said. Iranian news agencies made no immediate mention of casualties or damage, but reports were preliminary. The quake hit at 4:43 pm (1223 GMT) with an epicentre ...