Vingt ressortissants afghans illégaux sont morts et dix autres ont été blessés dans l'accident entre un minibus et un camion sur la route entre Téhéran et Qom (centre), a rapporté dimanche la télévision d'Etat iranienne.
Cet accident meurtrier (...)
Vingt ressortissants afghans illégaux sont morts et dix autres ont été blessés dans l'accident entre un minibus et un camion sur la route entre Téhéran et Qom (centre), a rapporté dimanche la télévision d'Etat iranienne.
Cet accident meurtrier (...)
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
received here today Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed
Al Nahyan.
Sheikh Abdullah conveyed the best wishes of UAE President Sheikh Khalifa
bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Vice (...)
The first batch of the Iranian pilgrims left here today for The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
At Muherbad International airport in Teheran a farewell ceremony was organized for the pilgrims and it was attended by head of Iranian Hajj mission Mohammedi (...)
Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadi-Nejad left here today for Manama, Bahrain, to conduct talks with officials on bilateral relations.
During the visit, a number of Memorandum of Understanding (MOUs) are scheduled to be signed between Iran and (...)
Speaker of Iranian Shoura Ghulam Ali Haddad Adel left here today for Geneva to participate in the 117th session of the international parliamentary federation.
The meeting, due to be attended by parliamentarians from more than 120 countries, will (...)
There are no members of the al-Qaeda terrorist
network in Iran any more, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman
Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said Sunday, according to dpa.
The spokesman reiterated in his weekly press briefing Iran's
condemnation of (...)
IRAN HAS REJECTED STATEMENTS SPELLED OUT BY SOME US OFFICIALS WHICH SAY THAT IRAN HAS VIOLATED THE RESOLUTION PERTAINING TO BANNING SALE OF WEAPONS TO LEBANON.
SPOKESMAN OF THE IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY MOHAMMED ALI HUSSEINI SAID IN A STATEMENT (...)
Iran on Tuesday said its was investigating the detainment of Iraqi custom officials, the news agency ISNA reported.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Assefi declined to give more details until the issue was "thoroughly investigated".
An Iraqi (...)
Iran on Thursday categorically denied accusations by London of being behind the marked increase in violence against British troops in southern Iraq, which has claimed the lives of eight British soldiers this year, DPA reported.
"Britain's scandals (...)
Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari arrived in Teheran Saturday for a three-day visit.
The visit is the first by an Iraqi head of government to Iran since the 1958 overthrow of the monarchy system in Iraq.
Jaafari told Iranian state television (...)
The death toll in a cholera outbreak sweeping Iran has risen to ten, with 764 people infected, the ISNA news agency reported Sunday.
The health ministry has warned people not to drink tap water and to be cautious when eating fruit and (...)
The death toll in a cholera outbreak sweeping Iran has risen to ten, with 764 people infected, the ISNA news agency reported Sunday.
The health ministry has warned people not to drink tap water and to be cautious when eating fruit and (...)
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has appointed Ali Saaidlu as the country's new oil minister, DPA reported.
Saaidlu was born 1952 in Tabriz in northwest Iran. He studied geology in Tabriz but later obtained a masters degree and Ph.D. in (...)
The death toll in a cholera outbreak sweeping Iran has risen to ten, with 764 people infected, the ISNA news agency reported Sunday.
The health ministry has warned people not to drink tap water and to be cautious when eating fruit and (...)
The death toll in a cholera outbreak sweeping Iran has risen to ten, with 764 people infected, the ISNA news agency reported Sunday.
The health ministry has warned people not to drink tap water and to be cautious when eating fruit and (...)
An U.S. passenger plane made an emergency landing Sunday in Teheran due to technical problems, the first time in decades a U.S. aircraft has landed on Iranian soil, dpa reported.
The DC-10 plane, belonging to Northwest Airlines, was en route from (...)
Another explosion rocked the city of Zahedan in south-east Iran on Wednesday, just two days before the presidential elections, ISNA news agency reported.
The Interior Ministry in Teheran confirmed the explosion but could give no furher details, dpa (...)
Two earthquakes measuring 4.7 and 3.9 on the Richter scale jolted the town of Bahabad in central Iranian province of Yazd early Tuesday, the official news agency IRNA reported.
The quakes occurred at 6:44 a.m. and 7:14 a.m. (0214 and 0244 GMT (...)
An armed man who took about 100 students and teachers hostage Thursday at a school in north Teheran surrendered and his captives were released without injury, official news agency IRNA reported.
The man surrendered to police forces at the Razi (...)
Heavy rain and snow has hampered the emergency effort in the southeastern Iranian areas affected by the country's recent earthquake, state media reported Wednesday.
Speaking on the television news network Khabar, Interior Minister Abdolvahed (...)
An Iranian nuclear spokesman on Thursday said accusations by the European Union of non-compliance regarding Teheran's enriched uranium programme were "baseless".
"The E.U. claim over the underground tunnel at the Isfahan uranium plant is baseless (...)
Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani on Friday called on Europe and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to stop bullying Iran over the nuclear dispute.
"This is no way to treat a country like Iran and such an approach would (...)
The death toll from the earthquake that struck Tuesday near Zarand has risen to 612 people, state-television network IRIB reported Saturday.
Interior ministry officials said about 8,000 homes in 40 villages were damaged or destroyed. Fourteen (...)
Russia's atomic energy chief, Alexander Rumyantsev, arrived Friday in Teheran for a two-day visit expected to produce a signed agreement to deliver Russian nuclear fuel to Iran.
Rumyantsev and his Iranian counterpart, Gholam-Reza Aqazadeh, will (...)