IFP- According to a report by IFP, authorities in the German city of Augsburg have evacuated more than 54,000 people from their homes while a giant 1.8-tonne bomb from World War II is defused. Officials have sealed off the citys medieval cathedral and city hall. The evacuation affects some 32,000 households in the centre and involves some 4,000 ...

Alwaght- In the years after World War II and the beginnings of the Cold War, in order to confront communism and to create a bulwark against the Soviet Union, US shifted its focus to West Asia. In US eyes, this region was a battlefield for capitalism. During the arms race with the Soviet Union, US adopted the policy of establishing military bases ...

The Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran refers to the military invasion of the Imperial State of Iran by the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union between August 25 and September 17, 1941. This operation is known by the code name Operation Countenance. The purpose of the invasion was to secure the oilfields at Abadan to ensure a supply route to the USSR ...

Tehran, May 7, IRNA - Iran's Permanent Ambassador to the United Nations Hossein Dehqani on Wednesday urged international community to take a lesson from the World War II and respect the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of all states. Dehqani made the remarks in a ceremony held to commemorate the seventieth anniversary ...

JERUSALEM -- If you have never heard of the Mosaique religion or of the Djougoutes, an ethnic group including up to 12,000 Iranians, you are not alone. They do not exist. But they helped save thousands from Nazi death camps in World War II, when an Iranian diplomat made them up out of whole cloth in a daring ploy to conceal the real identity of over ...