The Russian foreign minister dismisses sanctions against Iran as ineffective, saying Tehran’s isolation would have regional consequences. “It is obvious that sanctions against Iran won’t be effective,” Sergei Lavrov said in the Moscow State University of Foreign Relations on Wednesday. Lavrov stressed that a compromise should be reached “no matter how hard it may be,” [...]

Hundreds of Afghan people have held took to the streets in the eastern province of Ghazni to protest against the presence of private security firms in the country. Over 500 protesters condemned the killing of two Afghan civilians by mercenaries in the region, a Press TV correspondent reported on Saturday. The demonstrators also chanted anti-US [...]

Thousands of protesters in the Indian-controlled Kashmir have poured into the streets to protest the continuous killing of civilians. Government forces fired warning shots on Thursday to disperse the protesters in Srinagar. Six people are reported to have been injured. The Indian troops also fired tear gas and used batons during a pro-independence rally in [...]

Iran’s president says the government is fully prepared to deal with sanctions, and will turn them into an opportunity for economic boom and self-sufficiency. “The sanctions are aimed at putting pressure on the Iranian nation”, said Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a joint meeting of government and parliament. “If they say they have no intention of pressurizing [...]

Palestinian sources reported yesterday evening that the Zionist forces killed A Palestinian man on the Gaza border. The sources added that the Zionist soldiers opened fire on a group of Palestinians east of Khanyounis city in southern Gaza, killing one Palestinian. The medical crews identified the Palestinian man as Bassem Barham Al-Dagna. The army claimed [...]

Iran’s Foreign Ministry slams US accusation of Iranian meddling in Iraq, saying Washington is used to blaming other countries to protect the identity of the original culprits. US Ambassador to Iraq Christopher R. Hill on Monday accused Iran of interfering in Iraq’s domestic affairs. Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Wednesday that making untrue statements [...]

Palestinian sources reported yesterday evening that the Zionist forces killed A Palestinian man on the Gaza border. The sources added that the Zionist soldiers opened fire on a group of Palestinians east of Khanyounis city in southern Gaza, killing one Palestinian, The medical crews identified the Palestinian man as Bassem Barham Al-Dagna. The army claimed [...]

Russia says it has stationed the advanced S-300 air defense missile system in Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia, amid concerns expressed by Tbilisi over the move. “We have deployed the S-300 system on the territory of Abkhazia,” Russia’s Air Force Commander-In-Chief General Alexander Zelin said in a statement carried by Russian media on Wednesday. “Its [...]

The Israeli army released Tuesday morning the body of Palestinian martyr Mashour Talab al-Arouri to his family after holding him for 35 years in the Arqam (numbers) cemetery, Palestinian sources in Ramallah said. The body was wrapped in a Palestinian flag and taken to the Ramallah Hospital after it was taken by the Israeli army [...]

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki says the International Atomic Energy Agency chief will soon set the date for the Vienna Group-Iran nuclear talks. “IAEA Director-General Yukiya Amano is preparing a letter to set a date for talks with the Vienna Group,” Mottaki said in a joint press conference with his visiting Lebanese counterpart Ali al-Shami [...]

Masked Israeli settlers have violently attacked two international peace activists near al-Khalil (Hebron) and absconded with some of their possessions and documents. Witnesses said three masked settlers harshly beat up Canadian national Peter Cunliffe, 26, and Danish national Koba Soernesen, 23, in the Al-Buweira neighborhood on Friday. They were transferred to the Al-Ahli Hospital in [...]

Angry protesters in Turkey have staged a demonstration against the presence of an Israeli team at a volleyball tournament in their country. Large numbers of people gathered near the sports hall in the capital Ankara on Saturday, calling on the government to expel the Israeli team, which is in Ankara for a women’s European Volleyball [...]

Israeli navy is on high alert as a Libyan aid ship heads for the Gaza Strip to break Israel’s naval blockade on the impoverished coastal sliver. The navy is tracking the ship and has put forces on standby in case it needs to board the vessel, The Jerusalem Post cited Israeli defense ministry sources as [...]

Iraq has begun an operation to arrest 38 members of the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) and hand them over to judiciary officials. “We have received a letter from Iraq’s Supreme Criminal Court which contains the names of 38 senior members of the MKO,” Fars News Agency quoted Iraqi Deputy Interior Minister Ayden Khalid Qader [...]

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Leader has communicated the macro-policies of an initiative he announced in late March to reform the consumption pattern in the country. In his instructions to heads of the three branches of government, Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei underlined the need to promote frugality and avoid extravagance, adding consumerism should be discouraged, the Leader’s [...]

Iran’s interior minister says fighting international crime requires cooperation by all countries and organizations across the globe. “Today, criminals can get away with murder, robbery kidnapping and the like, using modern facilities and equipment to get thousands of miles away from the crime scene in a matter of hours”, Mostafa Mohammd Najjar was quoted by [...]

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) burnt ten dunums of Palestinian cultivated land while quelling a peaceful anti wall demonstration in Irak Burin village, Nablus district, on Saturday. Local sources said that the IOF troops attacked the march only minutes after it started heading to the Palestinian land threatened with confiscation. They said that the excessive use [...]

As a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Iran has once again highlighted its indisputable right to peaceful nuclear knowhow. “Iran will not compromise on its inalienable rights under the NPT and the IAEA’s Articles of Association”, Iranian Ambassador to the IAEA Ali Asghar Soltanieh said in a speech to the agency’s Board of [...]

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has demanded that Israel lift the blockade of the Gaza Strip immediately in the wake of the deadly attack on the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla. After his return from visits to Brazil, Malawi, and Uganda, on Wednesday Ban told reporters that the underlying problem behind Monday’s events was the long-running, crippling [...]

Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili says Israel’s deadly attack on the Gaza-bound aid Flotilla has turned the regime into a global threat. “The Zionist regime’s folly shows that this regime is a threat to the independent world, just as defending Palestine and Gaza is protecting liberty,” Jalili was quoted as saying [...]