The country's nuclear power plant is built near tectonic plates, and reports show it may not be safe in the eventof a major seismic event. On April 16, a massive 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit southeast Iran, sending tremors across the region and causing casualties that are expected to reach into the hundreds.According to an Iranian official, it ...

Lebanese Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour has offered his condolences to the Iranian government and nation over the recent earthquake that hit the southeastern Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchestan. Mansour expressed his deep condolences over the quake in a message to Irans Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi on Thursday. According to the Iranian ...

After a major earthquake on April 16 that damaged hundreds of homes and killed at least 41 people, Iranian authorities have not issued a statement about accepting international aid on their territory. Turkish officials from the Prime Ministrys Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate (AFAD) told theHrriyet Daily Newsthat they had told Iranian ...

Hundreds of Pakistani soldiers deployed for relief effort as official says morethan 3,000 homes were destroyed and 19,000 are without shelter Thousands of people are homeless and desperate for aid in south-westernPakistanfollowing a deadly earthquake in neighbouringIrantoppled scores of mud brick homes and killed at least 36 people, officials said ...

[caption id="attachment_25112" align="alignright" width="300"] A photo showing damages sustained in Irans southeastern city of Saravan following an earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale, April 16, 2013[/caption] Leader of the Catholic Church Pope Francis has expressed his condolences over the recent earthquake that jolted Irans southeastern ...

MOSCOW, April 17 Russia is ready to offer assistance to Iran over quake aftermath, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday. Putin extended condolences to his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over the loss of lives caused by a powerful earthquake on Tuesday, the Kremlin press service said. Russia shares the pain and the grief of those who ...

AFP -A huge earthquake that struck Iran's rural southeast region killed one woman and injured more than two dozen other people, media reports Wednesday cited officials as saying. "A woman was killed by a mountain landslide following the quake," Alireza Shahraki, governor of Khash city, was quoted by ISNA news agency as saying. According to other ...

Turkish foreign minister Davutoglu said Turkey would help Iran if asked Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said that Turkey would help its neighbor and friend Iran if it needed any relief after the earthquake. An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter Scale hit Iran's Zahedan city on Tuesday. The earthquake took place at 15.14 hours local ...

WASHINGTON - The United States on Tuesday offered condolences to the Pakistani victims of the deadly earthquake that jolted the Iran-Pakistan border region, and said it was ready to provide humanitarian aid to them. We have seen the reports of the earthquake near Khashkhail on the Iran-Pakistan border, and we're monitoring the situation. We offer ...

US Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday offered condolences to the families of those who were killed in Tuesdays earthquake in southeastern Iran and western Pakistan. The United States sends our deepest condolences for those lost in the earthquake in southeastern Iran and western Pakistan today. Our thoughts are with the families of those who ...

MOSCOW, April 17 (RIA Novosti) An aftershock was registered early on Wednesday on the Iran-Pakistan border, the day after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake killed at least 40 in the same area. The magnitude of Wednesday's quake was 5.7, the US Geological Survey reported on Wednesday. Its epicenter was located some 202 kilometers (125 miles) from the Iranian ...

(Reuters) - A powerful earthquake struck a border area of southeast Iran on Tuesday killing at least 35 people in neighboring Pakistan, destroying hundreds of houses and shaking buildings as far away as India and Gulf Arab states. Communications with the sparsely-populated desert and mountain region were largely cut off, making it difficult to assess ...

(Reuters) - The number of deaths in a powerful earthquake that hitIranon Tuesday was "not high", an Iranian lawmaker from the region told the Mehr news agency. "From what we have heard from people in the stricken areas, we have learned that the number of deaths is not high," Hamid Reza Pashang said. "I have talked to the people of Zabul, Saravan,...

Iran news headlines on Tuesday include7.8 magnitudequakestrike near Iran-Pakistan border; Iran test-firing land-to-sea ballistic missile in PG;IDF Chief of Staff remarks over Israel capability in striking Iran on its own; Iran president visitinguranium-producing Niger and Iran oil minister statements onTehran Oil Show as a sign of failure of international ...

(Reuters) - Power and communications systems were down in most of the southeastern Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchistan following a major 7.8 magnitude earthquake on Tuesday, Iranian state television reported. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake hit at 1044 GMT at a depth of 15.2 km (9.4 miles). The epicentre was in southeastIranin an ...

(Reuters) - Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant was not damaged by the major earthquake that struck on Tuesday, an official at the Russian company that built the plant said. The official at Atomstroyexport, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said he had spoken to a colleague at the plant after the quake and that no damage was reported. Bushehr,...

At least 40 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale struck Iran's southeastern Sistan and Baluchestan Province, the Iranian Seismological Center (IRSC) says. The IRSC reported that the epicenter of the quake was situated 81 kilometers north of the city of Saravan. According to the United States Geographical ...