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To seriously disrupt an Israeli air strike against Iran's nuclear facilities, Iran is urging Russia to hand over SA-20 air defence missile as soon as possible. Moscow missed its initial deadline to deliver the SA-20s, which could defend Iranian nuclear...

UN passed the resolution with a majority to stop Tehran from building nuclear bomb. Though Iran’s nuclear dimension may have built the nuclear technologies to meet the demand of the hour. With exceptional Russian and Chinese support, the vote has...

“IAEA’s anti-Iran resolution is political and non-technical”, says Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, preacher of Eid al-Adha prayers in Tehran. Ahmad Khatami, spoke at a Tehran University prayer .He warned world powers that Iran will not be frightened by threats or influenced...

Gordon Brown led calls for new sanctions against Iran after the UN's nuclear watchdog issued the country with its first official rebuke in almost four years. Delegates at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna overwhelmingly backed a resolution...

He called on the West to lean towards cooperation rather than confrontation. Friday called upon Iran to freeze uranium enrichment, and to suspend work immediately on its recently revealed Fordo nuclear enrichment facility located inside a mountain near the city...

It's all a matter of legalese now," Narayanan said Saturday when asked why the reprocessing pact could not be signed during the four-day visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Washington that ended Thursday. "It will take a week or...

Last updated on Friday, Nov. 27, 2009 9:46PM EST I f you take an evening stroll around the southern fringes of Tehran, where the mountains plunge into the desert and the apartment blocks descend into haphazard neighbourhoods of self-built structures,...

The department’s conclusion, laid out in a recently disclosed five-page memorandum from David Barron, the acting assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel, adds a new wrinkle to a sharp political debate over the antipoverty group’s activities and...

Friday condemning Iran for secretly building a uranium enrichment plant and demanded the Islamic republic freeze construction of the facility...Twenty-five nations on the 35-member board voted for the censure, which was the first against Iran since February 2006.

Norway's foreign ministry said on Thursday that Ebadi's gold Nobel medal and her award diploma had been removed from her bank box and that her bank account, where the prize money was deposited, had been frozen. Ramin Mehmanparast, an Iranian...