AFP: The UN refugee agency on Wednesday expressed concern about tens of thousands of Afghan refugees who risk expulsion from an Iranian frontier province. UN voices concern over Afghans in Iran border province
AFP: The UN refugee agency on Wednesday expressed concern about tens of thousands of Afghan refugees who risk expulsion from an Iranian frontier province. Iran agents ‘sabotaging’ anti-Qaeda groups: Iraq intel chief
AFP: Iranian secret service agents are working to “sabotage” the operations of groups fighting Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Baghdad’s intelligence chief said on Wednesday. Qatari PM in Iran as U.S. pushes for isolation
Reuters: Qatar’s prime minister began talks in Iran on Tuesday, the second visit in 10 days by a Gulf Arab premier at a time when the United States is pressing countries in the region to isolate the Islamic Republic. Russia ready to support sanctions against Iran: envoy
AFP: Russia is ready to support new UN sanctions against Iran if Tehran does not change tack on its nuclear programme, Russia’s envoy to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, told journalists on Wednesday. Russia warns Iran: stop enrichment or face sanctions
Reuters: Russia warned Iran on Wednesday that unless it ceases uranium enrichment within days Moscow will support new United Nations sanctions being prepared by the West against the Islamic Republic. Iran built space rocket in just months
AP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that the research rocket Iran recently launched was built in just nine months without using any foreign models. Man hanged in Iran for allegedly committing crime aged 16
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 27 Authorities hanged a young man on Tuesday in a prison in central Iran for a crime allegedly committed when he was 16 years old, state media and human rights activists said on Wednesday. Man hanged in Iran for allegedly committing crime aged 16
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 27 Authorities hanged a young man on Tuesday in a prison in central Iran for a crime allegedly committed when he was 16 years old, state media and human rights activists said on Wednesday. Iran ruled responsible for ’92 Israeli embassy bombing
New York Sun: An American judge has ruled for the first time that Iran was responsible for the 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Argentina. Judge Ellen Huvelle, who sits in Washington, ruled Monday that Tehran must pay about $63 million to the family of an Israeli diplomat who was one of 29 killed in the Buenos Aires attack. She said the bombing was carried out by Hezbollah and could not have taken place without assistance from Iran. Iran, China gas deal signing delayed
Reuters: The signing of a contract with China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) to develop Iran’s northern Pars gas field has been postponed to the “near future”, an Iranian official said on Wednesday.