Iran's Deputy Interior Minister Ali Abdollahi said that no security problem threatens the proposed Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project, the local Tehran Times daily reported Tuesday. Abdollahi said the ministry of oil should follow up for finishing the project and establishing the pipeline as soon ...

ISLAMABAD - Succumbing to the growing US pressure on Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline, Islamabad and Ashkhabad have reached an accord for delivery of 1.3 billion cubic feet a day of Turkmen gas at 69 per cent of crude oil parity price under the $7.6 billion TAPI pipeline project, which would once ...

We take billionaire financier George Soros up on the bet he proffered to CNNs Fareed Zakaria this week that the Iranian regime will not be there in a years time. In fact, we want to up the ante and wager that not only will the Islamic Republic still be Irans government in a years time, but that a ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader has crossed all red lines by praising the social upheaval against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak as an "Islamic liberation movement", Cairo's foreign minister said on Saturday. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei advised the people of Egypt and Tunisia on Friday to ...

BEIJING/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Irans proposal for a tour of its nuclear sites floundered on Thursday after China effectively rejected the invitation and Russia cautioned such a trip could never replace UN inspections or talks between Tehran and world powers. The European Union has turned down Irans ...

TEHRAN (AFP) Twin blasts in Irans capital killed a top nuclear scientist and wounded another Monday, with Tehran swiftly blaming the CIA and Mossad for the attacks apparently carried out by men on motorcycles. Slain scientist Majid Shahriari and Fereydoon Abbasi Davani, who survived the attack, ...

UNITED NATIONS - Forty one members, including Pakistan, were elected on Wednesday to the Executive Board of the newly-created UN agency on gender equality and womens empowerment. The elections, held in the 54-member Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), will enable the new Board to come together ...

The United States on Wednesday officially designated the shadowy Sunni rebel group Jundallah a foreign terrorist organization as it blamed it for a series of attacks in Iran. Since its inception in 2003, Jundallah has engaged in numerous attacks resulting in the death and maiming of scores of ...

Iran's president will likely swagger into New York next week in much the same style as past visits for the annual U.N. General Assembly: ready to take his jabs at America on its home turf. But any outward confidence on the big U.S. stage contrasts sharply with his increasingly public power ...

ISLAMABAD - Chairman Senate Farooq H Naek on Friday apprised the Iranian parliamentary delegation about devastation and damage caused by the recent torrential rains and floods in Pakistan. He also invited Iranian investment and business community to invest in the field of oil exploration adding ...

U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday signed the new Iran sanction bill into law which is described by him as "striking at the heart" of Iranian government' s nuclear ability. The bill, signed in the East Room of the White House, imposes tough new sanctions "striking at the heart of Iranian ...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Irans inflation continued its recent upward trend in March, reaching 10.4 percent year-on-year, the official IRNA news agency said on Monday quoting a central bank report. The official annual rate in the worlds fifth-largest oil exporter has fallen from a peak of nearly 30 ...

Confidential intelligence documents obtained by The Times show that Iran is working on testing a key final component of a nuclear bomb. The notes, from Irans most sensitive military nuclear project, describe a four-year plan to test a neutron initiator, the component of a nuclear bomb that triggers ...

WASHINGTON (AFP/Reuters) - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said pursuing nuclear weapons was not in Irans own interest as she pressed for Tehran to accept a UN-backed deal. Clinton said in a television interview aired late Monday that the United States has many reasons for distrusting Iran, ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US lawmakers vowed Sunday to take up swift and severe sanctions against Iran, as reports emerged the UN nuclear watchdog concluded Tehran has the know-how to build an atomic bomb. A chorus of congressional voices, both Republican and Democratic, urged tough action against Tehran ...

LAHORE - Iran's Malavan Bandar Anzali women team based in Bandar-e Anzali, one of the most important seaports in the Iranian province Gilan, opened their mission in fifth National Women Football Championship at Islamabad's Jinnah Stadium Saturday night with 8-0 win over Balochistan United at ...

Iran's popular former president Mohammad Khatami has called for a nationwide referendum on the legitimacy of the government to end the country's post-election crisis. Mr. Khatami's proposal was reported by several reformist Web sites on Monday. Mr. Khatami also said Iranians have lost their faith ...

WASHINGTON - A much hyped fear of expansion of Irans influence into Latin America, which some in US believed threatened American interests in region, turned out to be without any basis, according to The Washington Post. Despite warnings from US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that Iran was ...

Defeated Iranian candidate Mehdi Karroubi refuses to recognise the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after an electoral watchdog confirmed the results despite fraud allegations, a statement on his party website said on Wednesday.

Iran started a partial recount of the June 12 presidential election on Monday, al-Alam television reported. Iran's Guardian Council, the top legislative body, had agreed to recount a random 10 percent of the votes after the disputed election caused large scale demonstrations in the country.

LAHORE - Pakistan athlete Abdul Rasheed won silver medal in Iran's Fajr International Indoor Athletics Championship. In all three Pakistan athletes participated in 18th edition of the athletics championships scheduled on February 12 and 13 at Tehran, Iran and Abdul Rasheed won the silver medal in ...

Iran's state television says the country's supreme leader has warned visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki about a U.S-Iraq security deal that will allow American troops to stay in Iraq for three more years. The Sunday report quotes Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as saying the United States and its ...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday nominated a close aide as interior minister four days after parliament sacked Ali Kordan for lying about his credentials, Fars news agency reported. Ahmadinejad nominated Sadeq Mahsouli for the post in a letter to the parliament or majlis, the ...

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that Israel was "dying" and that people in the Middle East would destroy it if given the chance. His remarks coincided with the arrival of U.S. President George W. Bush in the Middle East to celebrate Israel's 60th birthday and try to ...

India has backed Iran's "peaceful" nuclear programme and said New Delhi would continue its "significant" engagement with Tehran since the oil-rich nation is an important-role player in the Middle East. Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who is on a three-day ...