WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States on Thursday hit Iran's police, Revolutionary Guard and the Basij militia with sanctions for "serious" rights abuses, ratcheting up pressure on the regime amid upheaval in the Islamic world.
Slapping sanctions on three key pillars of the Islamic Republic's security apparatus, as well as the head of the nation's police force, Secretary of State Hil [...]
VIENNA (AFP) - World powers expressed "deeper concern" Thursday about the intention behind Iran's controversial atomic drive in face of its refusal to answer questions about possible military dimensions to the work.
A day after Iran announced it was expanding uranium enrichment -- the most senstive part of its nuclear programme -- Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the Unit [...]
PARIS (AFP) - A renowned blogger with Iranian and Canadian citizenship has lost an appeal against a 19-year jail term imposed after he visited Israel, a French magazine said Wednesday, citing his family.
Hossein Derakhshan, a 35-year-old known as the father of the Iranian blogging movement, has been imprisoned in Iran since 2008 and was convicted last year of "aiding enemy states an [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - Tehran announced plans on Wednesday to triple its capacity to enrich uranium to 20 percent level when it transfers the work to the secretive Fordo plant later this year, a move Washington dubbed provocative.
"We will transfer the 20 percent enrichment from (the central city of) Natanz to the Fordo site this year, under the supervision of the (International Atomic Ener [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday vowed to remain "silent" despite the ruling conservatives' criticism of his inner circle, asking them to let his government carry out its duties.
"Our stance has always been to stay silent. A silence that is to inspire unity," Ahmadinejad told a news conference in response to attacks against his entourage, including his [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran is ready to resume nuclear talks with the world powers but will press ahead with its atomic activities including uranium enrichment, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday.
"They want to negotiate again. Let's negotiate for understanding and cooperation... but until they change their arrogant approach to one of cooperation, verbal clashes via the media wil [...]
VIENNA (AFP) - UN atomic watchdog chief Yukiya Amano turned up the heat on Syria and Iran -- both accused of illicit nuclear activity -- as the body's policy-making board of governors began meeting here Monday.
Tehran and Damascus are both accused of actively blocking the International Atomic Energy Agency's long-running investigations into illegal nuclear activity.
At the end of M [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran will lodge a formal complaint to the world football body after its women's team were barred from playing in an Olympic qualifier for wearing the traditional Islamic headscarf, media reports said Monday.
"We will file a complaint against the match's FIFA organiser to the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA)," Ali Kafashian head of Iran's Footbal [...]
VIENNA (AFP) - The UN atomic watchdog opens a week-long meeting Monday, with the United States and its western allies looking to pass a resolution against Syria over its alleged illicit nuclear activity.
The traditional June session of the International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-member board of governors has a heavy agenda, ranging from the upcoming two-year budget to the nuclear di [...]
VIENNA (AFP) - UN atomic watchdog chief Yukiya Amano turned up the heat on Syria and Iran -- both accused of illicit nuclear activity -- as the body's policy-making board of governors began a meeting in Vienna on Monday.
Tehran and Damascus are both accused of actively blocking the International Atomic Energy Agency's long-running investigations into illegal nuclear activity.
At th [...]
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