LAHORE - The Iranian Consul General Muhammad Hossain Banni Assadi on Wednesday, while urging Islamabad to start barter trade with Iran in the larger interest of the people in the two countries, observed that India has done $16 billion bilateral trade only last year through a new mechanism of barter ...

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTUNITED NATIONS - Iran has protested Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's recent remarks in a leading US newspaper that Tehran could use the process of UN nuclear talks as cover to build atomic weapons, saying the UN chief's “biased stance” is against international ...

DUBAI (Reuters/AFP) - Iran said on Wednesday it had started installing a new generation of machines for enriching uranium, an announcement likely to annoy the West and complicate efforts to resolve a decade-old dispute over its nuclear program.It came on the day the UN nuclear watchdog began talks ...

TEHRAN (AFP) - Air pollution in Tehran has left 4,460 people dead in a year, an Iranian health official said in reports Sunday, with another sounding the alarm over high dose of carcinogens in domestically-made petrol. Hassan Aqajani, an adviser to the health minister, made the announcement on ...

TEHRAN  - Iran on Saturday hanged an Afghan drug trafficker and four Iranians, three of them convicted of rape, local media reported. The 27-year-old Afghan from Herat, identified only by his initials MM, was sent to the gallows in the northern city of Damghan after being convicted of selling ...

DUBAI - Iran and North Korea are not cooperating on missile and nuclear development, Tehran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.Japan’s Kyodo News agency this month reported, citing a Western diplomatic source, that Iran had stationed defence staff in North Korea since late ...

TEHRAN - Iran has supplied military aid to the Islamist group Hamas in Gaza locked in a conflict with Israel during which it has fired missiles at Tel Aviv for the first time, the parliament speaker said Wednesday. “We are proud to defend the people of Palestine and Hamas ... and that our ...

BAGHDAD - Possible clean-up activities at an Iranian military base where the UN atomic agency wants to probe evidence of suspected nuclear weapons research are "ongoing," the watchdog's head said on Sunday. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Yukiya Amano nevertheless expressed guarded ...

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran on Sunday scoffed at Israel’s air defences as it confirmed Tehran had provided Lebanon’s militant group Hezbollah with the sophisticated drone which overflew the Jewish state earlier this month.Iran’s “capabilities are very high and are at the disposal ...

WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Sunday that Iran would reach the brink of being able to build a nuclear bomb in just six or seven months, adding urgency to his demand that President Obama set a “red line” for Tehran amid the worst ...

TEHRAN - The head of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards on Sunday warned of retaliation against the Gulf's strategic Strait of Hormuz, US bases in the Middle East and Israel if his country was to be attacked.General Mohammad Ali Jafari, speaking in a very rare news conference in Tehran, also said ...

NEW YORK - A bipartisan group of former US diplomats, generals and government officials Thursday cautioned the US and Israel against launching attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities, saying such a move would derail Tehran's programme for four years at most while uniting its citizens and alienating ...

The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) has been called by some analysts a “relic of the cold war” days. It was theoretically conceived at Bandung in 1955 and formally launched at Belgrade in 1961. Sukarno, Nehru, Nasser, Nakruma and Tito were its founding fathers. It emerged as a group of ...

A two-day Non-Aligned Movement summit opened in Tehran on Thursday, gathering the heads of state or government and senior officials from 120 nations in an event Iran hailed as proof it was not internationally isolated. Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was to address the delegations ...

DUBAI - Iran has arrested some of those responsible for assassinations of its nuclear scientists, state media reported on Sunday, in a continued hunt for those it says are working to sabotage its nuclear program.Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi said Iran had shut down two networks inside and ...

TEHRAN  - Iran will close the strategic Strait of Hormuz at the entrance to the oil-rich Gulf only if its crude revenues are seriously threatened, its top military commander said in remarks reported on Saturday."We have plans to close the Strait of Hormuz because military commanders must have ...

TEHRAN - Iran rejects Western pressures over its nuclear activities and will never give up its rights, Tehran's chief nuclear negotiator said Thursday ahead of crunch talks with world powers in Baghdad next week. "If we participate in the negotiations... it is because of our resistance (to Western ...

TEHRAN - Police in Tehran are conducting a new crackdown on women wearing mandatory headscarves improperly or in “vulgar” dress, the city’s police chief said, according to media reports on Saturday. Such operations, which see police screening foot and vehicle traffic at major ...

ISLAMABAD - President of Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, First Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi and Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi have sent messages to their respective Pakistani counterparts to expressing their deep condolences on the tragic air crash.According to press ...

TEHRAN  - Iran on Sunday called Israel’s deadly air strikes on Gaza “war crimes” against “the defenceless Palestinian people,” calling for an international outcry against the attacks.“Iran strongly condemns the savage crimes of the Zionist regime against the ...

JEDDAH – PTI Chairman Imran Khan has again claimed a sweeping victory in next general polls, saying his party provides a choice to the people stuck in the two-party system. “Suddenly, they see a viable third option; so people are coming to us,” Imran Khan told Saudi Gazette in an ...

TEHRAN - Iranian warships entered the Mediterranean after crossing the Suez Canal on Saturday to show Tehran’s “might” to regional states, the navy commander said, at a time of simmering tensions with Israel.In Jerusalem, the foreign ministry said Israel will be watching the ...

TEHRAN  - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to unveil several unspecified nuclear “achievements” on Wednesday, his government’s website said.“Several completed nuclear projects will be unveiled tomorrow in the presence of the president,” the official ...

If Israel really attacks Iran this year, it – and the Americans – will be dottier than their enemies think. True, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not right, but then so is Avigdor Lieberman, who is apparently the Israeli Foreign Minister. Maybe the two want to do each other a favour. But why on ...

TEHRAN  - Iran has its ‘own threats’ to respond to any military attack or sanctions against its oil exports, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday. “In response to threats of oil embargo and war, we have our own threats which will be implemented at the right ...

I rarely learn anything meaningful from reading The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg. In my opinion, his tight relationship with the Israeli government and its lobby here greatly influences his take on both foreign and domestic events. Although he occasionally deviates from the Israeli line, he not only ...

UNITED NATIONS - Iran has called on the United Nations to condemn the  killings of Iranian nuclear scientists, which it said were “cruel, inhumane and criminal acts of terrorism.”In a letter to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon released on Wednesday, Iran’s UN Ambassador Mohammad ...

TEHRAN  - Iran said on Monday that all its nuclear activities are under IAEA watch, including those at a new uranium enrichment bunker at Fordo that one Western diplomat said was already up and running.The UN atomic agency confirmed Monday that Iran has started enriching uranium at a new site ...

TEHRAN - Iran will in the “near future” start enriching uranium deep inside a mountain, a senior official said, a move likely to further antagonise Western powers which suspect Tehran is seeking nuclear weapons capability.A decision by the Islamic Republic to conduct sensitive atomic ...

QUETTA - Pakistan on Tuesday formally protested to Iran against the killing of its citizen and violation of its boundary by Iranian border guards and turned down its request to release them. Iranian side was also told that these officials will face the law of the land.The protest was lodged in a ...