AFP: Iran is ready to restore full diplomatic relations with Egypt by reopening its embassy in Cairo the “very day” the Egyptian government agrees, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday.
Iran says ready for full diplomatic ties with Egypt
Iran making progress in enriching uranium: diplomats
AFP: Iran has made progress in enriching uranium despite UN sanctions against this strategic work, UN nuclear inspectors have learned, diplomats told AFP Tuesday.
Keep up pressure on Iran, US says
AFP: International pressure must be kept on Iran to halt its suspect nuclear program, the US said Tuesday, amid reports that Tehran has made progress enriching uranium in defiance of UN sanctions.
U.S.-Iran “parliament friendship” idea draws fire
Reuters: A senior Iranian lawmaker hit out on Tuesday at a proposal by some fellow MPs to set up a “parliamentary friendship group” with the United States, the Islamic Republic’s arch-foe.
Rice calls on Iran to release jailed US-Iranian scholar
AFP: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called on Iran Tuesday to release immediately a US-Iranian scholar jailed in Tehran on charges of acting against Iran’s national security.
Iran leader brushes off nuclear sanctions
AFP: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed UN sanctions as “nothing new” on Tuesday as a new Security Council deadline loomed for Tehran to freeze its controversial nuclear work.
Iran journalist sentenced to three years jail
AFP: An Iranian journalist arrested last year after returning from a conference abroad has been sentenced to three years in jail, the judiciary spokesman said on Tuesday.
Iran amputates mans hand in public
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 15 Authorities have chopped off the hand of a man in public in the western city of Kermanshah, a state-run daily reported on Tuesday.
Iran amputates mans hand in public
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 15 Authorities have chopped off the hand of a man in public in the western city of Kermanshah, a state-run daily reported on Tuesday.
Irans Larijani, EUs Solana to meet on May 31
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 15 Irans chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani will meet EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana on May 31 to discuss the standoff over Tehrans controversial nuclear program, the official news agency IRNA reported on Tuesday.
