 |
|
|
|
World News
|
|
|
|
|
|
Iran says meeting with IAEA chief postponed
|
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 14 - Iran announced on Sunday that a meeting scheduled to take place on Monday between the head of its nuclear agency and the chief of the United Nations nuclear watchdog has been postponed.
|
|
|
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:00:00 -0000
|
|
|
Two men hanged in northern Iran
|
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 14 ? Authorities have hanged two men in the city of Sari, northern Iran, state media reported.
|
|
|
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:00:00 -0000
|
|
|
Iran Majlis summons three ministers
|
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 14 ? Iran?s hardline-dominated Majlis (Parliament) has summoned three ministers, state television reported on Sunday.
|
|
|
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:00:00 -0000
|
|
|
Iran hangs two members of armed group
|
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 11 ? Iranian authorities have hanged two men in the volatile south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, state media reported on Thursday.
|
|
|
Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:50:00 -0000
|
|
|
Bush: Iran and al-Qaeda are among greatest threats to U.S.
|
 Iran Focus: Washington, DC, Apr. 10 ? United States President George W. Bush warned Iran on Thursday that it had a ?choice? of either living in peace with Iraq or witnessing American action to defend its interests in the war-torn country.
|
|
|
Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:00:00 -0000
|
|
|
Iran to replace interior and finance ministers
|
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 09 ? Iran?s hard-line president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will soon replace Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi and Economy and Finance Minister Davoud Danesh-Jafari.
|
|
|
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:00:00 -0000
|
|
|
Man hanged in northern Iran city
|
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 09 ? Authorities in Semnan Province, northern Iran, hanged a man in prison at dawn on Wednesday, state media reported.
|
|
|
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:40:00 -0000
|
|
|
Iran drops ten places in FIFA rankings - report
|
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 09 - Iran?s national soccer team dropped ten places in the FIFA world rankings in March after poor results against Bahrain and Kuwait, the state-owned news agency Mehr reported on Wednesday.
|
|
|
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:50:00 -0000
|
|
|
Iraqi forces discover ?largest? Iranian EFP cache
|
 Iran Focus: London, Apr. 09 ? Iraqi security forces in the town of al-Qasim have discovered the ?largest explosively-formed penetrator cache found to date?, the U.S. military announced on Tuesday.
|
|
|
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:40:00 -0000
|
|
|
Iran?s Economy Minister may face the sack
|
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 08 - Iran's Economy and Finance Minister Davoud Danesh-Jafari is likely to soon step down, a state-run news agency reported on Monday.
|
|
|
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:00:00 -0000
|
|
|
Iran?s Judiciary Chief in Qatar for talks
|
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 08 - Iran's Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi arrived on Tuesday in Doha to meet and hold talks with Qatari officials, state media reported.
|
|
|
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:00:00 -0000
|
|
|
Paris court dismisses libel case against Iran Focus
|
 Iran Focus: Paris, Apr. 07 - The 17th branch of the Court of Paris ruled last Thursday in favour of Iran Focus in a lawsuit brought against it for allegedly publishing libel about a French national. The libel charges were brought by Alain Chevalérias on 21 February 2008 against the ?Iran Focus? website.
|
|
|
Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:00:00 -0000
|
|
|
Iran vows to reject deal to suspend uranium enrichment
|
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 04 - Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday that Tehran would reject any new incentives offered to it by world powers in return for it to suspend uranium enrichment, a key demand of the United Nations Security Council.
|
|
|
Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:20:00 -0000
|
|
|
Britain urges Iran to limit executions
|
 Iran Focus: London, Apr. 03 ? Britain?s Foreign Office has urged Iran to limit the number of executions it carries out.
|
|
|
Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:00:00 -0000
|
|
|
Iran OKs result of elections in Tehran
|
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 01 - Iran's constitutional watchdog has approved the result of the March 14 Parliamentary election for the Iranian capital Tehran and 35 other districts.
|
|
|
Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:30:00 -0000
|
|
|
4.6 Richter-scale quake jolts south-east Iran
|
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 01 - An earthquake measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale jolted parts of Kerman Province, south-eastern Iran, on Monday.
|
|
|
Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:00:00 -0000
|
|
|
5 die as police chopper crashes in north-west Iran
|
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 29 ? Five people were killed as a helicopter belonging to Iran's State Security Forces (SSF) crashed in north-west Iran, a senior police official said on Saturday.
|
|
|
Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:10:00 -0000
|
|
|
Iran?s FM expected in Damascus to attend summit
|
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 28 - Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki will visit Damascus on Friday to attend the 20th Arab League Summit from March 29-30 and hold talks with senior Syrian officials, state media reported.
|
|
|
Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:20:00 -0000
|
|
|
Iran says will institutionalise moral crackdown
|
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 27 - The chief of Iran's police vowed on Wednesday to institutionalise the current moral crackdown which is targeting mainly young Iranians, in yet another sign of the recent sharp increase in the repressive atmosphere in Iranian society.
|
|
|
Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:00:00 -0000
|
|
|
Iran to hold 2nd round of polls on April 25
|
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 26 - Iran will hold a second round of polling on April 25 for approximately 30 percent of Majlis (Parliament) seats which were not decided in the original poll held on March 14, state media reported on Wednesday.
|
|
|
Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:00:00 -0000
|
|
|
Murder in Spanish capital by Iran?s Intelligence Ministry?
|
 Iran Focus: London, Mar. 25 ? Iran?s ultra-secretive Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) has once again found itself under the limelight after it was accused of involvement in the murder of an Iranian intellectual in Spain.
|
|
|
Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:00:00 -0000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Iran Focus: London, Apr. 09 - Full text of remarks on Tuesday by U.S. General David H. Petraeus, the commander of Coalition forces in Iraq, before the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington DC: 
Iran Focus: London, Apr. 09 - Charts accompanying remarks on Tuesday by U.S. General David H. Petraeus, the commander of Coalition forces in Iraq, before the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington DC: 
Iran Focus: London, Apr. 09 - The following are excerpts of remarks on Tuesday by U.S. General David H. Petraeus, the commander of Coalition forces in Iraq, before the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington DC:
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 08 ? At least three people were injured when a car?s petrol tank exploded at a gas station in northern Iran, state media reported on Tuesday.
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 01 - An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale jolted an island on Iran's southern shores early on Friday.
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 03 - Authorities in the Republic of Azerbaijan on Thursday extradited 17 Iranians back to Iran, local media in Baku reported.
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 01 ? Iran?s official inflation rate is rising ten times as fast as the national growth level.
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 26 - Iran's ambassador to Beirut met and held talks with Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, Iranian state media reported on Wednesday.