TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran successfully launched its Rassad-1 satellite into space on Wednesday, the country's Arabic-language television channel Al-Alam said.
"It was launched by the Safir rocket and put into orbit 260 kilometres (163 miles) above the Earth," the television said. "It is capable of photographing the Earth."
The report said Rassad-1 (Observation-1) can revolve 15 times aro [...]
MADRID (AFP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday his country's Bushehr nuclear plant has taken every security precaution and relies on more modern technology than Japan's.
Spain's public television asked the Iranian leader in an interview in Tehran whether Iran could handle a similar event to the massive earthquake and tsunami that triggered the Japanese nuclear accident.
"We [...]
BEIRUT (AFP) - Lebanon's caretaker minister of telecommunications said Wednesday he had ignored a request for information by a UN court probing the murder of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri on legal grounds.
Charbel Nahas told AFP that the Netherlands-based Special Tribunal for Lebanon had sought documents relating to the phone records of Lebanese citizens in the past seven years.
He said he had [...]
BRUSSELS (AFP) - European Union lawmakers sought to pressure the bloc's chief diplomat Tuesday to step up sanctions against Iran after failed talks over its disputed nuclear drive.
After EU High Representative Catherine Ashton "left Istanbul empty-handed last weekend," Scottish Conservative Struan Stevenson called for the European Union "to impose tougher sanctions on the clerical regime for its [...]
KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - Iran is ready to negotiate its nuclear programme with Western powers, but will refuse to make any concessions, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Wednesday.
"We support talks, negotiations and dialogue," Mottaki told a news conference in Kuwait City when asked about the resumption of talks on Tehran's sensitive nuclear programme.
"But this does not mean that [...]
BRUSSELS (AFP) - Negotiations between Iran and Western powers on Tehran's controversial nuclear drive will resume next week in Geneva, more than a year after they ground to a halt with sanctions having multiplied.
After months of cat-and-mouse offers and counter-bids, the talks will finally restart in Switzerland, on December 6 and 7, the office of the European Union's chief diplomat Cath [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran denied on Tuesday claims that its sensitive uranium enrichment work has been hit by technical problems and said its nuclear programme has not been harmed by the Stuxnet computer worm.
Atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi also rejected allegations by Western powers that Iran lacks the know-how to make nuclear fuel plates and was adamant it would be producing fuel for a researc [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran denied on Tuesday claims that its sensitive uranium enrichment work has been hit by technical problems and said its nuclear programme has not been harmed by the Stuxnet computer worm.
Atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi also rejected allegations by Western powers that Iran lacks the know-how to make nuclear fuel plates and was adamant it would be producing fuel for a researc [...]
STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi on Monday accused Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson of aiding monitoring in Iran, and encouraged members of the Iranian diaspora in Sweden to protest to the company.
"I am urging you Iranians in Sweden to please email Ericsson and object and say, 'Why are you selling the Iranian government software with which it can control its people'," the law [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - The Iranian capital is equipped with air defences against cruise missiles, a top military official said on Friday, warning against any attack on Iran over its controversial nuclear programme.
"Tehran is one the rare capitals of the world which has been equipped with a defence system against advanced cruise missiles," said Amir-Ali Hajizadeh, the Revolutionary Guards aerospa [...]
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