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ایران نے پائلٹ کے بغیر چلنے والاڈرون طیارہ بنالیا، امریکی اخبار

ایران نے پائلٹ کے بغیر چلنے والاڈرون طیارہ بنالیا، امریکی اخبار

واشنگٹن…ایران نے پائلٹ کے بغیر چلنے والے ڈرون طیارے کی پیداوار شروع کردی ہے۔ایک امریکی اخبار نے ایران کے سرکاری ٹیلی وژن کے حوالے سے بتایا ہے کہ وزیر دفاع جنرل احمد واحدی نے کہا ہے کہ یہ طیارہ نگرانی کے علاوہ حملہ کرنے کی صلاحیت بھی رکھتا ہے اور ایک ہزار کلو میٹر تک [...]

Iran tests radar-evading aircraft in its latest technological advances

Iran tests radar-evading aircraft in its latest technological advances

TEHRAN: Iran has successfully tested a radar-evading aircraft, a commander said on Sunday, in the country’s latest announcement of technological advances as it marks the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution, reports Reuters. The semi-official Fars News Agency, citing senior air force official Aziz Nasirzadeh, said the prototype of a radar-evading aircraft had been test-flown. [...]

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad orders Iran’s atomic chief to enrich uranium to 20pc

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad orders Iran’s atomic chief to enrich uranium to 20pc

TEHRAN: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered Iran’s atomic chief on Sunday to enrich uranium to 20 percent, in a fresh challenge to Western powers bidding to rein in Tehran’s galloping nuclear drive.

3 Iranians arrested in Malaysia for drugs smuggling worth four million dollars

3 Iranians arrested in Malaysia for drugs smuggling worth four million dollars

KUALA LUMPUR: Three Iranians have been arrested attempting to smuggle drugs worth nearly four million dollars into Malaysia, where trafficking carries a mandatory death sentence, a customs official said Sunday. Customs deputy director Mohamad Subri Awang said the two women and one man were arrested on Friday with 13.6 million ringgit (4.0 million dollars) worth [...]

Iran successfully launches a home-built satellite-carrier rocket named Kavoshgar-3

Iran successfully launches a home-built satellite-carrier rocket named Kavoshgar-3

TEHRAN: Iran test-fired a domestically made satellite-carrier rocket on Wednesday, Iranian media said, a move that may worry Western powers who fear Tehran is seeking to build a nuclear bomb and missile delivery systems. Western nations are concerned that the long-range ballistic technology used to put satellites into orbit can also be used to launch [...]

Iran leaders `sowing seeds’ of own destruction: US Vice President Joe Biden

Iran leaders `sowing seeds’ of own destruction: US Vice President Joe Biden

WASHINGTON: Iran’s leaders are “sowing the seeds of their own destruction” with a brutal crackdown on protesters, US Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday. In an interview with MSNBC television, he said the United States should continue to extend a hand to Iran “as we move toward serious sanctions against the Iranian government.” “But, look, [...]

Iran will “soon execute” nine protesters for seeking to topple the Islamic regime

Iran will “soon execute” nine protesters for seeking to topple the Islamic regime

TEHRAN: Iran will “soon execute” nine people arrested during anti-government protests for seeking to topple the Islamic regime, Fars news agency reported on Tuesday quoting a senior judiciary official. “The two people executed and another nine who will soon be executed were definitely arrested in recent riots and each were linked with counter-revolutionary movements,” deputy [...]

US anti-missile sales to its Arab allies raise tensions in the Gulf region

US anti-missile sales to its Arab allies raise tensions in the Gulf region

NEW YORK: Tensions in the Gulf between the US and Iran are set to rise further after it emerged that American-made anti-missile systems are to be deployed to Washington’s Arab allies in the region. The Obama Administration said yesterday that it was speeding up arms sales to a number of states and that it had [...]

Iran puts 16 anti-government protesters including two women on trial

Iran puts 16 anti-government protesters including two women on trial

TEHRAN: Iran put on trial on Saturday 16 anti-government protesters, including two women, who were arrested on the Shiite mourning day of Ashura, a local news agency reported. Five of the defendants are accused of being mohareb (enemies of God) and corrupt on earth, both crimes punishable by death under the Iranian legal system, which [...]

Iran denies rejecting UN-brokered offer to exchange enriched nuclear fuel

Iran denies rejecting UN-brokered offer to exchange enriched nuclear fuel

TEHRAN: Iran has not rejected a UN-brokered offer to exchange enriched nuclear fuel but it wants a staged swap rather than a wholesale handover of most of its stockpile, foreign ministry officials said in comments published Thursday. “Iran did not reject the principle of the exchange (of nuclear fuel),” Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki was quoted [...]

ایران، ترکی میں تجارتی کاروان ، پاکستان بھی شرکت کریگا،ٹی ڈی اے

ایران، ترکی میں تجارتی کاروان ، پاکستان بھی شرکت کریگا،ٹی ڈی اے

کراچی…ٹریڈ ڈویلپمنٹ اتھارٹی کے سربراہ محب اللہ شاہ نے کہا ہے کہ ایران اور ترکی میں ہونے والے تجارتی کاروان میں پاکستان بھی شرکت کرے گا۔ٹی ڈی اے پی کراچی میں ایران کے تجارتی وفد سے خصوصی بات چیت میں سید محب اللہ شاہ نے بتایا گیا کہ تجارتی کاروان زمینی راستے سے ایران اور [...]

Tehran boosts security for nuke experts; Key powers fail to reach a deal on Iran

Tehran boosts security for nuke experts; Key powers fail to reach a deal on Iran

NEW YORK/TEHRAN: Diplomats from six key powers focused on possible new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme at a meeting Saturday, but reached no agreement. Robert Cooper, the European Union’s political director who chaired the meeting, said the US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany concluded “that Iran has failed to follow up” on [...]

Tripartite commission for local solution to the Afghan conflict

Tripartite commission for local solution to the Afghan conflict

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran agreed Saturday that there can be no foreign solution to the Afghan conflict. A tripartite commission of the three countries said it will present a common agenda at the upcoming conference on Afghanistan in London. The commission’s meeting was held at the Foreign Office in Islamabad and foreign ministers of [...]

Senior Iranian envoy quits in disgust over regime’s brutalities

Senior Iranian envoy quits in disgust over regime’s brutalities

OSLO: A veteran Iranian diplomat based in Norway has resigned his post, denounced his government and urged colleagues around the world to do the same after the regime’s brutal suppression of huge opposition demonstrations last month. Mohammed-Reza Heydari, Iran’s consul in Oslo, is the first Iranian diplomat to publicly quit and condemn the regime. He [...]

Larijani blames US, Israel for assassination of Iran’s nuclear physics scientist

Larijani blames US, Israel for assassination of Iran’s nuclear physics scientist

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani took the US and the Zionist regime responsible for the Tuesday terrorist attack on a nuclear physics scientist and university lecturer. “We received some explicit information several days ago that Israel’s Intelligence Agency (Mossad), in collaboration with CIA, was seeking to stage a terrorist attack in Tehran,” Larijani said at [...]

Bomb blast kills Iranian nuclear scientist Massoud Ali Mohammadi in Tehran

Bomb blast kills Iranian nuclear scientist Massoud Ali Mohammadi in Tehran

TEHRAN: A bomb attached to a motorcycle killed an Iranian professor of nuclear physics outside his home in northern Tehran on Tuesday, the state-run Press TV broadcaster reported on its Web site. State-run media blamed Iran’s western adversaries for the killing, but there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast. The authorities called [...]

Rebellious Iranians deface bank notes in subversive protest

Rebellious Iranians deface bank notes in subversive protest

TEHRAN: Banknotes defaced with opposition slogans are banned in Iran from this week, but they remain a symbol of the Green Movement as it refuses to succumb to crackdowns. The anger of the protesters emerged in scribbled words such as “dictator” and “executioner” on banknotes. Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic who appears [...]

Iran’s opposition leader Mehdi Karoubi escapes mob bullets

Iran’s opposition leader Mehdi Karoubi escapes mob bullets

TEHRAN: In yet another sign of escalating tensions in Iran, Iran’s most outspoken opposition leader has had a narrow escape after his car was hit by bullets as he fled from a mob of government supporters. Mehdi Karroubi’s armoured car was hit at least twice as it pulled away from the angry crowd, breaking the [...]

Hackers attack Iran’s President Ahmadinejad’s website

Hackers attack Iran’s President Ahmadinejad’s website

On Monday night in San Francisco an information technology consultant named Austin Heap reported on his blog that the official Web site of Iran’s president, Ahmadinejad.ir, had been attacked by hackers. Mr. Heap, who has been active in the effort to provide Iranians with tools to circumvent Internet censorship this year, wrote that “someone seems [...]

Iran to try five persons in connection with opposition’s protests last month

Iran to try five persons in connection with opposition’s protests last month

TEHRAN: Iran will try five people arrested in connection with protests last month, the biggest in the Islamic Republic since the aftermath of the presidential election in June, the official news agency said on Thursday. The agency, citing a statement by Tehran’s revolutionary court, did not identify the detainees or the date of their trials [...]

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