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WASHINGTON: At the heart of President Obama’s new nuclear strategy lies a central gamble: that an aging, oversize, increasingly outmoded nuclear arsenal can be turned to the new purpose of adding leverage to the faltering effort to force Iran and North Korea to rethink the value of their nuclear programs. The 50-page “Nuclear Posture Review” [...]
India has rejected a call from the US to shun participation in gas talks with Iran, saying “energy security” is a priority for New Delhi.
TEHRAN: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that world pressure on Iran, including talk of new sanctions, makes the Islamic republic more determined than ever to pursue its nuclear programme. His defiance came after US President Barack Obama vowed to ratchet up global pressure on Tehran to abandon its controversial atomic programme which he said [...]
BEIJING: China said Thursday it still preferred diplomacy to sanctions in resolving the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program, a day after Britain’s U.N. ambassador said China had agreed for the first time to discuss new measures against Tehran. China, which relies on Iran for much of its energy, traditionally opposes sanctions, although it went along [...]
MOSCOW: The United States and Russia clashed over Iran’s first nuclear plant which Russia is helping build after strongman Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the station would come online this summer. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in Moscow hoping to secure Russia’s support for a tougher line on Iran, said such a move would [...]
TEHRAN: Iran has busted what it says was a US-funded cyber network group linked to an exiled opposition movement that collected data on its nuclear scientists, state media reported on Saturday. Thirty members of the network with links to the outlawed People’s Mujahedeen and monarchists have been arrested, Fars news agency said, quoting a statement [...]
OCCUPIED-AL-QUDS: US Vice President Joe Biden began a visit to Israel and the West Bank , assuring Israelis in a newspaper interview that Washington would close ranks with them against any threat from a nuclear-armed Iran. Biden, the most senior US official to visit Israel since President Barack Obama took office in January 2009, is [...]
TEHRAN: Iran’s President Mahmud Ahmadinejad on Saturday dismissed the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States as a “big lie,” state media reported. Ahmadinejad has on several occasions questioned the accepted version of the terror strikes on New York and Washington carried out by Al-Qaeda militants, which killed nearly 3,000 people. “September 11 was [...]
UNITED NATIONS: A Western proposal for fresh UN sanctions on Iran includes a call for restricting new Iranian banks abroad and urges “vigilance” against the Islamic Republic’s central bank, diplomats said on Friday. Speaking on condition of anonymity, Western diplomats familiar with negotiations on the draft proposal — which Washington worked on with Britain, France [...]
ISLAMABAD: The recovery of a Pakistani Computerised National Identity Card from the possession of Abdolmalek Rigi, an Iranian terrorist and head of Jundallah group, has put a question mark on the NADRA’s “self-proclaimed secure” registration system. The card was recovered by Iranian security personnel when Rigi was arrested while travelling on a flight heading to [...]
TEHRAN: Iran has arrested top Sunni militant leader Abdolmalek Rigi who has been accused of masterminding a series of deadly bombings and killings, local media reported on Tuesday. Tehran based Arabic news channel Al-Alam said that he has been arrested in the “east of the country”, while the Fars news agency is quoting the Iranian [...]
TEL AVIV/TEHRAN: Israel’s Air Force on Sunday introduced a fleet of huge pilotless planes that can remain in the air for a full day and fly as far as the Persian Gulf, putting Iran within their range. The new aircraft, called the Heron TP, has a wingspan of 86 feet, making it the size of [...]
JERUSALEM: Israel may lack the military means for successful pre-emptive strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities, its former top general said on Saturday. While endorsing international efforts to pressure Tehran into curbing sensitive nuclear technologies, Israel has hinted it could resort to force. But some analysts say Israeli jets would be stymied by the distance to [...]
PARIS: Reza Pahlavi, whose father, the shah of Iran, was toppled from power 31 years ago, said the international community must step up its support for Iran’s opposition movement and stop focusing on the country’s nuclear program. In an interview with The Associated Press, Pahlavi said nations such as the United States should not ”even [...]
BERLIN: German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle threatened new sanctions against Iran, saying that Tehran has the right to make peaceful use of nuclear power, but must refrain from any nuclear armament. If Iran continues to refuse talks, then talks at the United Nations is inevitable, and we’ll have to talk about new measures, said Westerwelle. [...]
AMSTERDAM: An image of women shouting from the rooftops in protest at Iran’s presidential election last June won the top World Press Photo prize for news photography on Friday. Described by judges as “the beginning of something, the beginning of a huge story”, the photo is part of a series that Italian Pietro Masturzo shot [...]
TEHRAN: The Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that Iran is now capable of enriching Uranium above 80 percent level. Addressing a rally Ahmadinejad said that Iran has no intentions of making a nuclear bomb but if it does it would do that candidly. Ahmadinejad said that the first consignment of 20 percent enriched Uranium and [...]
TEHRAN: In recent weeks, security officials have unleashed an epidemic of arrests across Iran in an effort to neutralize the political opposition, silence critical voices and head off widespread protests when the nation observes the anniversary of the revolution on Thursday, Iran analysts inside and outside the country said. Though the government has refrained from [...]
PARIS: Officials from the United States, France and Russia called Monday for stronger measures against Tehran after Iran told the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency that it would begin enriching its stockpile of uranium for a medical reactor in Tehran as early as Tuesday. In Paris, the visiting United States defense secretary, Robert M. Gates, [...]
لاہور…لاہور میں متعین ایران کے قونصل جنرل سعید خرازی نے کہا ہے کہ ایرانی حکومت نے جند اللہ کے حوالے سے ثبوت پاکستان کے حوالے کر دیئے ہیں اور پاکستان سے مطالبہ کیا ہے کہ وہ جند اللہ کی کارروائیوں کو کنٹرول کرے۔لاہور میں ایران کے اسلامی انقلاب کے31ویں سالگرہ کے موقع پر ایک پریس [...]
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