Iranian warships dock at Saudi port
TEHRAN – Iranian naval ships docked on Saturday in the Saudi port city of Jeddah on a mission to project the Islamic republic’s “power on the open seas,” the Fars news agency reported.
The supply ship Kharg and Shaid Qandi, a destroyer, docked in the Red Sea port in line with orders from Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, it quoted navy commander Admiral …
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Oil ban won’t halt nuclear work: Tehran
TEHRAN (RETUERS) – Iran’s oil minister said the Islamic state would not retreat from its nuclear programme even if its crude oil exports grind to a halt, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday. But he also called on the European Union, which accounted for a quarter of Iranian crude oil sales in the third quarter of 2011, to review its decision last week to bank Iranian oil …
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Iran begins new military exercises in south
Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard began military exercises Saturday in the country’s south, the latest show of force after threats to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for tougher Western sanctions. The latest military maneuvers got under way following stern warnings by Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, about any possible U.S. or Israeli attacks against Tehran’s …
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Israel to strike Iran within months: US
WASHINGTON – US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta now believes Israel is poised to attack Iran in the first half of this year to stop Tehran’s nuclear programme, according to media reports.
The prospect of war in the Middle East emerged after Washington Post columnist David Ignatius reported Thursday that the Defence Secretary saw “a strong likelihood” that Israel would strike …
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Tehran will respond to threats: Khamenei
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 time, if necessary,” he said in a televised speech as he led traditional Friday prayers in …
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Iranian leader warns US, Israel against strikes
TEHRAN: Iran’s supreme leader pledged Friday to aid any nation or group that challenges Israel and said any military strikes over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program would damage US interests in the Middle East ”10 times over.” The nationally broadcast comments by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei staked out a hard line in apparent replies to suggestions [...]
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BBC accuses Iran of ‘detaining’ relatives of journalists
The Iranian government has arrested relatives of Persian-language journalists working abroad for the BBC in a bid to silence them, the British broadcaster said Friday.
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Iran warns of retaliation over oil sanctions
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday Iran would retaliate over Western-backed oil sanctions and any threat of attack, after U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was cited as saying he feared a possible Israeli strike as early as April. Khamenei’s defiant speech to mark the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution was the first direct response to tighter sanctions imposed …
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U.S. fears Iran’s links to al Qaeda
U.S. officials say they believe Iran recently gave new freedoms to as many as five top al Qaeda operatives who have been under house arrest, including the option to leave the country, and may have provided some material aid to the terrorist group. The men, who were detained in Iran in 2003, make up al Qaeda’s so-called management council, a group that includes members of the inner circle that …
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Panetta believes Israel may strike Iran this spring
United States Defense Secretary Leon Panetta believes there is a growing possibility Israel will attack Iran as early as April to stop Tehran from building a nuclear bomb, according to reports. The Washington Post first reported that Panetta was concerned about the increased likelihood Israel would launch an attack over the next few months. CNN said it confirmed the report, citing a senior Obama …
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Iran launches observation satellite
Iran has successfully launched an observation satellite, Iranian news networks Press TV reported on Friday.
The domestically-built Navid (Harbinger) satellite is designed to take pictures of the Earth at low altitudes of 250 to 370 kilometers. Press TV hailed it as the “first satellite to be completely designed and built by Iranian experts.”
The head of Iran’s Space Agency, …
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Iran launches observation satellite: media
It was the third domestically made satellite Iran has put above the planet using its Safir rockets.
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Iran has material for four nuclear bombs: Israeli general
JERUSALEM: Iran has enough radioactive material to produce four nuclear bombs, Israel’s chief of military intelligence, General Aviv Kochavi, asserted at a security conference on Thursday. “Today international intelligence agencies are in agreement with Israel that Iran has close to 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of uranium enriched to 20 percent, which is enough to produce [...]
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Asim, Munter have a hot session
ISLAMABAD – In a move adequately connected to building pressure on Pakistan in the wake of Islamabad’s efforts to redefine terms of engagement with the US, the American ambassador has threatened a Pakistani minister to forget continuing with Iran-Pakistan Gas Pipeline or face the music.As if the killings of our 24 soldiers at the hands of Nato aggressors were not plainly enough, the United …
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Iran launches Spanish channel
TEHRAN – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday officially launched Iran’s latest foreign-language news channel, a 24-hour satellite broadcaster aimed at Spanish speakers worldwide. “Viva España, viva America Latina,” he said in Spanish at the end of a televised speech to dignitaries attending the launch ceremony in Tehran. The new channel, HispanTV, has already been …
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Iran keeping option open on nuclear weapon: US spy chief
WASHINGTON: Iran is keeping the option open to develop a nuclear weapon but US intelligence agencies do not know whether it will eventually decided to build one, the US intelligence chief said on Tuesday. New US sanctions imposed over Iran’s nuclear program were likely to have a greater impact than previous ones, but were not [...]
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UN inspectors can visit any N-site, says Iran
TEHRAN, Jan 30: An IAEA delegation visiting Iran can choose to extend its stay beyond the three days originally planned if it wishes, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Monday, according to the official IRNA news agency
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