Tehran, May 17 : A team of archaeologists from the Yazd Cultural Heritage Center (YCHC) in Iran has discovered the Achaemenid era predecessor of the city of...

Tehran, May 16 (RIA Novosti) Iran Friday said it has submitted a package of proposals on nuclear non-proliferation, other international security issues to Russian and Chinese foreign...

February 23, 2008 Tehran - Iran's Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said that Tehran would back a plan to cut oil production at next month's OPEC meeting. "Iran will support the policy of a...

Spokesman Government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad welcomes free flow of information as it has currently become a public demand, government spokesman, Gholam-Hossein Elham said on Saturday. He...

"During our meetings in Tehran representatives of the six could give their preliminary reaction to Iran's proposals."The US reiterated it would not send a representative with Solana to deliver the...

Forum Oil Minister Gholam-Hossein Nozari invited foreign companies on Saturday to make investments in the upstream and downstream projects of the country's petrochemical industry. Nozari made the...

Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain traded furious foreign policy barbs, in a three-way row over how to deal with US foe Iran originally sparked by President George W Bush. Senator...

Tehran: Iran on Saturday said it will not increase oil output and dismissed Saudi Arabia's decision to boost oil output as a "political move", an Iranian news agency said. Oil Minister...

Afghanistan The Pentagon is moving forward with plans to build a new, 40-acre detention complex on the main American military base in Afghanistan, officials said, in a stark acknowledgment that the...

Strike Hundreds of thousands of French teachers and civil servants staged a one-day strike throughout the country Thursday to protest government plans to cut jobs in the public sector. While the...

Amnesty Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki on Friday offered amnesty to Sunni Arab militants in the northern city of Mosul and financial compensation for their surrendered weapons. The offer comes as...

Attack Iran has denounced terror attacks on Iranian diplomats at Iranian Embassy in Baghdad and held the US responsible for violating diplomatic immunity in Iraq. Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki...

Prices Oil prices have hit a record high approaching $128 a barrel on speculation that China will need to import more fuel, stretching supplies. With more energy needed to rebuild areas devastated by...

Press The following headlines appeared in major Tehran dailies on Saturday: ** TEHRAN TIMES - Pakistan, Iran pipeline talks on May 26 ** KAYHAN INTERNATIONAL - US plot to nail Iran fails ** IRAN NEWS...

Talabani President of Iraq Jalal Talabani Friday evening ruled out the US allegations against Iran and alleged involvement in sending weapons to Iraq. Speaking in a televised interview with the...

Pakistan Secretary of Guardian Council met with Pakistani Ulema and religious dignitaries at Iranian Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Friday evening. Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati addressed the meting in...

Fire At least 100 people were killed and scores injured when fuel from a pipeline ruptured by a bulldozer caught fire and exploded in a village , the Red Cross has said. The fireball engulfed homes...

Forum The eighth session of Iran's Petrochemical Forum was inaugurated here Saturday morning in the presence of Oil Minister Gholam-Hossein Nozari. The two-day gathering is participated by senior...

WATERTOWN, South Dakota (Reuters) - Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama said on Friday President George W. Bush's "failed policies" had strengthened U.S. enemies like Iran and...

The U.S. State Department said Friday major world powers have completed work on a new package of incentives aimed at getting Iran to stop uranium enrichment. But the United States will not be part of...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Iran has been a part of today's talks between President Bush and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah. The two leaders both condemned the recent violence in Lebanon, where...

The United States has warned Beijing over reported use of Chinese weapons by insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the Asian giant's continued sale of arms to Iran, Deputy Secretary of State...

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iran angrily blamed the United States on Friday after at least three of its diplomats were wounded in a Baghdad shooting, saying the Americans are encouraging attacks on Iranians in...

Washington: Bank Melli, Iran's biggest commercial bank, is set to be banned from operating in the European Union under proposals in the final stages of discussion in Brussels. At present, the bank...

BAGHDAD — Gunmen ambushed an Iranian Embassy convoy in Baghdad, wounding three Iranians, including two diplomats, and an Iraqi, a spokesman said Friday. The convoy was en route to a revered...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iran angrily blamed the United States on Friday after at least three of its diplomats were wounded in a Baghdad shooting, saying the Americans are encouraging attacks on Iranians...

Baghdad: An Iranian Embassy convoy came under fire in Baghdad, wounding two Iranian diplomats and two other embassy staff, a spokesman said on Friday. Tehran issued an angry response blaming the...

TEHRAN - Turkish Public Works & Housing Minister Faruk Nafiz Ozak met on Wednesday with his Iranian and Syrian counterparts in Iran where he attended a conference on urbanization. Ozak, who attended...

UAE Iranian car maker company "Iran-Khodro" is to open its permanent exhibition in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, on May 20, 2008. The company's sales representative in the UAE, Ali Reza Aminifar...

Pakistan Secretary of Guardian Council (GC) Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati arrived in Islamabad on Friday afternoon. Ayatollah Jannati scheduled to meet with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, as well as...

Iran A German parliamentary delegation from Federal Assembly( Bundestag) is due to arrive in Tehran in coming days. According to the report of Christian Social Union (CSU) party's public relations...

Tajikistan An exhibition of Iran's construction industry and home appliances kicked off its work here Friday. In the exhibition, 18 Iranian companies have presented their products such as cement,...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Friday it hoped the six nations negotiating with Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment programme could meet in Tehran soon to offer the Islamic...

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon complaining that it was "illegal" for the Security Council to impose sanctions against the country for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment.In the letter, which...

ElBaradei International Atomic Energy Agency's Chief Mohammed ElBaradei will present his Iran report probably next weekend or earlier the week following it. An informed source told IRNA in Vienna on...

Defense Minister Minister of Defense and Logistics of Armed Forces Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said the Zionist regime is too weak and vulnerable to plan an attack on Iran. The general told IRNA in...

BAGHDAD -- Four Iranian Embassy employees were shot and wounded, two of them seriously, as they drove in northwest Baghdad on Thursday night, Iranian and Iraqi officials said.The reason for the...

Mottaki Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki arrived here on Friday at the head of a delegation to condole senior Kuwaiti officials on passing away of former Kuwaiti Emir Saad al-Abdullah al-Salim...

LONDON, May 16 (IranMania) - President George W Bush heads for Saudi Arabia on Friday to renew his appeal to help tame record oil prices and try to shore up Arab support for containing Iran's growing...

LONDON, May 16 (IranMania) - Former Russian President Vladimir Putin's last-minute decision to fulfill UN Security Council Resolution 1803 on Iran before handing over power to his successor,...

LONDON, May 16 (IranMania) - A meeting of tourism ministers from the Developing 8 countries (D8) has kicked off at the Saadabad Cultural Complex in Tehran, PressTV reported. The event was attended by...

LONDON, May 16 (IranMania) - Iran's Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar has said that the US and the Zionist regime are to blame for the Middle East crisis, PressTV reported. He noted that the...

LONDON, May 16 (IranMania) - The annual Annecy International Animated Film Festival is scheduled to screen an animated film by Iranian director Mashallah Mohammadi, PressTV reported. Other Being by...

LONDON, May 16 (IranMania) - The Central Bank of Iran says it cannot implement its decision to cut interest rates until several of the plan's problems are addressed, PressTV reported. "One part of...

Mansouri Iran's Ambassador to China Javad Mansouri said Friday that Iran will remain supporter of Palestine under any condition. "Palestine belongs to whole the world of Islam. Muslim nations defend...

LONDON, May 16 (IranMania) - The head of Iran's central bank is at loggerheads with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over interest rates, the local press reported, the latest criticism of his economic...

Caretaker President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad issued a decree on Wednesday appointing Mehdi Hashemi as the caretaker of the Interior Ministry, a daily reported on Thursday. Hashemi will succeed Mostafa...

LONDON, May 16 (IranMania) - By putting into operation of three steel plans, some 4 million will be added to the capacity of Khorasan Razavi steel production, deputy industry and mines minister said,...

LONDON, May 15 (IranMania) - Iran delivered to UN chief Ban Ki-moon a package of proposals aimed at solving global challenges, including the nuclear issue, state media reported, according to Agence...

LONDON, May 16 (IranMania) - Governor of this provincial city in northwestern Iran, Ebrahim Mohammadlou, discussed promotion of bilateral ties with his counterpart from Turkish province of Van,...