Iran's hardline president will honor an American scholar's request to be buried in a historic Iranian city when he dies, the state broadcasting company said Thursday.
China could overtake Germany as the leading exporter of goods to Iran as early as this year, according to western diplomats and Iranian businessmen. The shift reflects Tehran's attempts to redirect its trade in the face of pressure over its nuclear programme.
Washington may want to label it a global terrorist organization. But in Iran the concern is over the military group's growing economic clout
Western countries on Thursday voiced concern at the rising number of executions in Iran as well as the "treatment of women as second class citizens" there.
A fatal attack launched two days ago against the headquarters garrison of the American military in Iraq was carried out using a 240 mm rocket a type of weapon provided to Shiite extremists by Iran, a U.S. general said Thursday. And the most prominent figure in a revolt of Sunni sheiks against al-Qaeda in Iraq was killed Thursday in an explosion near his home in Anbar province, Iraqi police said.
A fatal attack launched two days ago against the headquarters garrison of the American military in Iraq was carried out using a 240 mm rocket — a type of weapon provided to Shiite extremists by Iran, a U.S. general said Thursday.
A fatal attack launched two days ago against the sprawling headquarters base of the American military in Iraq was carried out with a 240 mm rocket - a type of weapon provided to Shiite extremists by Iran
In an interview with U.S. News, Nicholas Burns, the under secretary of state for political affairs, defended the Bush administration's continued pursuit of diplomacy at the United Nations Security Council on Iran's nuclear programs, despite earlier hopes by administration officials that a third, tougher sanctions resolution on Iran would have been adopted by now.
A fatal attack launched two days ago against the sprawling headquarters base of the American military in Iraq was carried out with a 240 mm rocket — a type of weapon provided to Shiite extremists by Iran, a U.S. general said Thursday.
China welcomed Iran's nuclear transparency deal with U.N. inspectors on Thursday, despite Western fears that it could be a recipe for delay.