Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is asking lawmakers to withdraw confidence from his deputy after Saleh al-Mutlaq made controversial comments this week over American forces withdrawing from Iraq, state media reported late Saturday.
Iran needs an annual $300 billion in foreign direct investment to meet its objective of 8 percent economic growth by 2015, Tehran Times reported, citing Deputy Economy Minister Behrouz Alishiri.
Iranian authorities have reduced the death sentence of Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian to life in prison, Jalalian's defence attorney reports.
Iran and Syria have signed a free trade agreement in a bid to boost bilateral trade especially in industry, mining and agriculture, the deputy industry, mine and trade minister stated on Sunday.
Recently (9-26 September 2011) the Russians and a few other Caspian regional states conducted a military maneuver in the Caspian Sea and its adjacent areas. Maneuvers by the Russian forces, with or without participation by other Caspian…
Iranian state television on Sunday aired what it described as the confession of an Iranian man detained for spying for the CIA.
Students at Tehran's Abbaspour University protested a recent speech by Hossein Shariatmadari, the director of the state newspaper Kayhan. Iranian media report that Shariatmadari was invited last Sunday by the university's Basij students to…
Iran's Intelligence Ministry said Saturday that its agents have arrested a person of Iranian origin on suspicion of spying for the United States.
Indian companies have begun talks with alternative suppliers to slowly replace Iranian oil, fearing their current mechanism for payments to Tehran for some 350,000 barrels a day (bpd) via Turkey could soon succumb to sanctions, industry…
Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant will double its power generation capacity to 1,000 megawatts in the near future, Iranian Deputy Energy Minister said.
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