New Delhi: US secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s crack of the whip vis a vis India’s oil imports from sanction-hit Iran appears to have worked. Keen on making up the for the likely drop in the import of Iranian crude, India is now cozying up to United Arab Emirates (UAE), Iraq as well as Saudi [...]
Iranian authorities killed Makwan Mouloudzadeh on December 5, 2007. Six months earlier, a court had convicted Mouloudzadeh — a youth of Kurdish descent from near Kermanshah — of raping others three boys when he was 13. However, his accusers retracted their claims; no evidence against him remained. In November, Iran’s chief justice had overturned the death [...]
CAIRO: Reporters Without Borders condemns the raid carried out by the Egyptian police two days ago on the Iranian Arabic-language satellite TV station Al-Alam. “The Egyptian authorities seized the station’s equipment and issued a warrant for the arrest of the bureau’s director, Ahmed Sioufi, on the grounds that Al-Alam did not have the necessary operating [...]
CAIRO: The UAE said Thursday that its strategic oil pipeline for bypassing the Strait of Hormuz is complete and exports are expected to start within three months, UAE Oil Minister Mohammed al-Hamli, said in a press conference in Paris. “The pipeline is complete and now it’s being tested,” Hamli said. “It’s filled with crude now [...]
SANA’A: Al-Islah members, Yemen’s Islamic political faction accused former President Ali Abdullah Saleh of having brokered an alliance with Teheran to throw the revolution out of balance and permit al-Houthis, a Shia rebel group which wants to revert to the ancestral rule of the Imams, to spread chaos throughout Yemen’s northern provinces. According to some [...]
CAIRO: Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr said that there are non-stop talks between Egypt and Qatar to enhance their economic ties, and to reach more collaboration in many areas of investment in the upcoming period; according to Qatar news agency. Amr added on Wednesday that there will be a tremendous leap in business section [...]
NEW DELHI: The United States said that it would not undermine India’s security and that the country’s continued use of Iranian oil despite pending sanctions, is not causing a rift between the countries. US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, in New Delhi on Monday, said “media reports” arguing there were problems in [...]
SANA’A: During a visit to Saudi Arabia, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Prince Faisal, the Saudi Foreign Minister that the White House was standing ready to assist Yemen in its power-transfer, promising that it would assist the country’s financial reconstruction and fight against terror. Clinton asserted that the ultra-conservative Gulf Kingdom and the [...]
NEW DELHI: India will ask Iran for access to a few of its citizens who may hold the key to the February blast in Goa, which injured an Israeli diplomat’s wife, union home minister P Chidambaram said on Saturday. Addressing a press conference in New Delhi Chidambaram also said that Indian authorities are in touch [...]
London (dpa) – There has been an “alarming” rise in executions in countries that still have the death penalty, with Middle Eastern states seeing a 50 percent increase in recorded executions in 2011, according to Amnesty International. The sharp increase in the Middle East was due to four countries. There were at least 360 executions [...]
Seoul (dpa) – The leaders of 53 nations and four international organizations were expected to issue a statement Tuesday at the conclusion of the two-day Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul. Official discussions focused on how best to secure nuclear material and facilities against terrorists. One of the key pledges was expected to be a reduction [...]
Berlin (dpa) – Israel would be “totally crazy” to launch military strikes against Iran as this would make the Islamic republic determined to acquire a nuclear arsenal, Mohammed ElBaradei, the former chief of the UN nuclear watchdog, told dpa. Asked during an interview in Berlin if an Israeli strike was imminent, the former head of [...]
Seoul (dpa) – US President Barack Obama told Iran Monday that time was short in reaching a diplomatic solution to the international dispute over its nuclear program and warned that it faced a different world, which wouldn’t tolerate nuclear proliferation. “Iran must act with the seriousness and sense of urgency that this moment demands,” Obama [...]
Tel Aviv (dpa) – Hundreds of anti-war campaigners marched through central Tel Aviv late Saturday to protest against a possible strike against Iran by Israel. Up to 1,000 people attended the demonstration, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said Sunday. “Bibi and Barak, war is not a game,” they chanted, using Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s nickname [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia said on Saturday that it will end all imports of crude oil from Iran, Prime Minister Najib Razak was reported as saying by state media. The move comes as the US threatens sanctions against country who import oil from Iran. “It’s (oil import from Iran) only a small amount,” official news agency [...]
Tehran (dpa) – Former Iran and Bayern Munich striker Ali Daei was in hospital with a head injury following a car accident Saturday, Fars news agency reported in Iran. Daei, 42, who is coach of Rah Ahan Tehran, was in his own car on the way to Tehran after an away match at Isfahan in [...]
New Delhi (dpa) – Indian police on Saturday identified three Iranian suspects in last month’s bomb attack on an Israeli diplomat’s wife in New Delhi, officials said Saturday. Arrest warrants were issued for the suspects who were allegedly helped by an Indian, Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi, already under arrest. Tal Yehoshua Koren, wife of an [...]
JOHANNESBURG (dpa): South Africa’s top arms control committee said on Thursday it was investigating allegations that front companies in the country are involved in exporting military equipment to Iran. The allegations, made by the Sunday Times newspaper, say a Canadian company would buy helicopters from a US-based firm. The goods would then be shipped to [...]
NEW YORK: Seven works by six Iranian artists from three generations comprise the installation Contemporary Iranian Art from the Permanent Collection, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art through September 3, 2012. Of the six artists—Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Parviz Tanavoli, Y. Z. Kami, Shirin Neshat, Afruz Amighi, and Ali Banisadr—four live and work in [...]
TEHRAN (dpa) – Iran’s supreme leader on Wednesday ordered the creation of a special cyber center led by top political and military figures to control the country’s Internet use, Fars news agency reported. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wrote in a letter to local authorities that the National Center for Cyber Space would help create new opportunities [...]
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