WASHINGTON (AFP) - (AFP) - Iranian HIV doctor Arash Alaei has been released from jail in Tehran after spending more than three years behind bars for allegedly conspiring against the regime, his US-based brother said Monday.
"He got released today," Kamiar Alaei told AFP in an email. "He was among 100 Iranian political prisoners who got a pardon today due to the coming end of the Ramadan religio [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - Iran will no longer negotiate a nuclear fuel swap with some of the world powers, its atomic chief said on Monday, adding however that it is ready for closer cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog.
"We will no longer negotiate a fuel swap and a halt to our production of (nuclear) fuel," Iran Atomic Energy Organisation chief Fereydoun Abbasi Davani said in an interview wi [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - Iran on Saturday inaugurated a plant for producing carbon fiber, which it is banned from importing by international sanctions targeting dual-use materials, the official IRNA news agency reported.
"Today we are witnessing the fulfillment of a strategic project of the Ministry of Defence," Defence Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi said as he inaugurated the production [...]
DAMASCUS (AFP) - (AFP) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces killed two more protesters on Saturday, as close ally Iran said his government should recognise "legitimate" popular demands and warned of an unpredictable regional vacuum if the regime falls.
Meanwhile, an Arab diplomat said Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo on Saturday would tell Syria they will no longer be silent on it [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the visiting Qatari emir the region must resolve issues on its own, saying Western "interference" would complicate the situation, the presidency website reported Friday.
"Regional countries can resolve (their) issues... without the interference of the West," Ahmadinejad said Thursday in a two-hour meeting with Sheikh Hamad bin Kh [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday that the potential recognition of a Palestinian state by the United Nations should only be a "step forward" for the "full liberation" of Palestine.
His strong remarks calling for Israel's "disappearance" came as tens of thousands marched in the capital at a "Quds Day" rally, an annual regime-sanctioned demonstration in sol [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - A top Iranian lawmaker denied Wednesday he had said the oil-rich country had decided to resume petrol imports, after the oil minister said Iran was "self-sufficient."
"I do not confirm the report regarding petrol imports into the country," Nasser Soudani, deputy chairman of parliament's energy commission, was quoted by the state television's website as saying.
"Unfortuna [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - A top UN atomic watchdog official last week toured Iranian nuclear sites, including ones where uranium is being enriched, a senior Iranian official was quoted as saying Tuesday by Fars news agency.
Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency, told Fars that the head of the IAEA's nuclear safeguards division Herman Nackaerts visite [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday welcomed Russia's latest proposals for restarting talks on the Islamic republic's controversial atomic programme that were broken off in January.
"Iran welcomes Russia's step-by-step proposal and is ready to make suggestions to cooperate," he said in a meeting with Russia's visiting National Security Council secretary Nikol [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - Iran's prosecutor general said on Monday that the verdict in the case of three Americans arrested two years ago on espionage charges would be issued "soon," Mehr news agency reported.
"The final verdict will be issued soon," Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeie said.
When asked whether there was a possibility of pardoning the three during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan [...]
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