• US, Israel in weak position: Iran
    • Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast says plots hatched by the US and Israel against Iran have failed to yield the intended effect, stressing Washington and its allies are in a weak position.
    • UN to probe Sarkozy anti-Iran remark
    • A UN spokesman has reportedly said the world body will probe the recent remarks by French President Nicolas Sarkozy against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
    • Iran producing monoclonal cancer drugs
    • Iranian Health Minister Marzieh Vahid-Dastjerdi says the country is currently producing more than a dozen types of monoclonal antibodies, a new generation of drugs to treat cancer.
    • Iran Rassad sat mission accomplished
    • Head of Iran Space Agency (ISA) Hamid Fazeli says the country’s Rassad (Observation) satellite has successfully completed its mission following its launch in mid-June.
    • Imam Moussa Sadr alive, in Libyan jail
    • A former Iranian lawmaker says influential Lebanese cleric Imam Moussa Sadr, who went missing in Libya over three decades ago, is alive and being held in Libyan prisons.
    • Moussa Sadr abduction, US-Zionist plot
    • A member of Lebanese Amal Movement has described the abduction of Lebanon’s Shia cleric Imam Moussa al-Sadr as a deliberate ploy by the United States and international Zionism.
    • Iran, France seek closer cooperation
    • Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for the expansion of ties between Iran and France, noting that there are no major differences between Tehran and Paris.
    • Leader: West propaganda targets Islam
    • Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Western powers try to tarnish the image of Muslims through propaganda and distortion of realities. “An example of Western propaganda [happened] in the recent crimes [committed] in ...
    • UK must change behavior toward Iran
    • Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has called on the British government to seriously “reconsider” its diplomatic behavior toward the Islamic Republic of Iran.
    • Iran’s biggest solar plant inaugurated
    • Iranian First Vice President Muhammad Reza Rahimi has inaugurated Iran’s largest tracking solar power plant in northeast of the country. The solar power plant, designed and built by ...
    • Iran cleric hails MENA revolutionaries
    • A senior Iranian cleric has hailed the resistance of Muslim revolutionaries against their foreign-backed rulers and slammed the West’s disregard for human rights. “Bravo to the insight of Egyptians, who do not ...
    • Israel frightened of its own shadow
    • Iran’s Majlis (parliament) Speaker Ali Larijani says the Zionist regime [of Israel] is under dangerous illusions with respect to its existence and is scared of its own shadow.
    • IRCS 1st relief aid convoy sent to Yemen
    • The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) has dispatched its first convoy of humanitarian relief to Yemeni people injured in anti-government protests.The convoy was sent from ...
    • Iran downs US spy drone near N-site
    • Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has shot down a US spy drone which was flying over the central Iranian province of Qom, a lawmaker says.
    • Iran compiling encyclopedia on Nowruz
    • TEHRAN, ECO Cultural Institute (ECI) in collaboration with the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO) are working on compilation of an encyclopedia on Nowruz.
    • Armenia awards Iranian family drama
    • Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi’s Nader and Semin, A Separation has topped the 2011 edition of the Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival.
    • Iran vows to root out PJAK terrorist cell
    • A senior Iranian military commander says the Islamic Republic will continue efforts to completely weed out the Party for Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) terrorist cell. Iran’ s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) clashed with PJAK terrorists and ...
    • Canada, Germany to screen Iranian film
    • Veteran Iranian director Masoud Kimiai’s feature length movie Crime is slated to be screened in movie theaters across Canada and Germany in the near future. The movie is scheduled to be screened in Canada in ...
    • Iran will foil US-Israeli ploys: VP
    • Iran’ s Vice President for parliamentary affairs Muhammad Reza Mirtajeddini has lauded the country’ s resistance against the West’ s excessive desires in the region, stressing Tehran will strongly counter US-Israeli plots.
    • Ahamdinejad opens Ardebil power plant
    • Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has inaugurated the second phase of the Ardebil combined cycle gas plant in northwestern Iran aimed at increasing the electricity capacity of the project. The new phase of the plant has been set up at the cost of ...
    • Iran warns of US blame-game bid
    • Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi warns of a new blame-game scheme by Americans against the Islamic Republic, saying the US seeks to ...
    • Iran FM in Algeria ahead of D8 meeting
    • Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi arrives in Algeria on a brief visit while en route to the Nigerian capital of Abuja to attend the Group of Eight Developing Countries (D8) meeting.
    • Ahmadinejad launches 4 major projects
    • Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has inaugurated four major projects worth about 420 million dollars in West Azarbaijan Province. The Maragheh-Miandoab railway opened to ...
    • Jalili: Region wary of Western claims
    • The Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili says the peoples of the region are distrustful of the US and Western powers claims of advocacy of democracy.
    • Iran, Turkmenistan eye stronger ties
    • Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Muhammad-Najjar has called for stronger relations between the Islamic Republic and Turkmenistan. Muhammad-Najjar made the remarks in a meeting with Turkmen President ...
    • Iran’s highest concrete dam launched
    • Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has inaugurated the country’s highest concrete dam in the western Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province. The Karoun 4 Dam has been built by ...
    • Iran’s Navy provides security in region
    • Iran’s Navy commander says improving the naval capabilities of the Islamic Republic is aimed at establishing security in international waters. “Improving the capabilities of [Iran’s] Armed Forces, particularly the Navy, is not ...
    • Bulgaria to stage Iranian puppet show
    • Bulgaria’s Golden Dolphin International Puppet Festival is set to stage Iranian director Maryam Moini’s Moon Pieces are Raining like Feathers in Varna.The puppet show is based on ...
    • STL, US plan to suppress ME revolts
    • A senior Iranian lawmaker says the Washington-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) was set up by the US with the purpose of weakening the resistance of freedom-seeking movements in the Middle East.
    • Ahmadinejad opens plant in SE Iran
    • Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has inaugurated a 318-megawatt combined cycle power plant in Iran’s southeastern city of Chabahar. The power plant was constructed with ...
    • Iranian weightlifter 3rd at worlds
    • Iranian weightlifter Jaber Behrouzi has stood third at the World Junior Weightlifting Championships which is currently underway in Malaysia. Behrouzi won the gold medal in the clean and jerk, but ...