Iran
June 21, 2000
Iran's military justice department ordered Wednesday the arrest of a former head of a Tehran riot squad in connection with investigations into last Ju
A consortium of European banks, led by Deutsche Bank, has provided a 550-million-dollar loan to finance various petrochemical projects in Iran, the pr
The newly opened Shahriar watchmaking factory recently become operational, constituting the largest manufacturing plant in the watch sector in the entire Middle East. The Managing-director of the pla
June 20, 2000
Lawyers defending Iranian Jews accused of spying for Israel are worried by the delay in winding up the trial and announcing a verdict in the southern
June 19, 2000
Iranian President Mohammad Khatami will make a state visit to Germany, Iran's leading trade partner, at the beginning of July, an official said Monday
Senior Israeli analysts warn that the sharp rise in international oil prices in the last few months will allow Iran to intensify its nuclear weapons a
The Iranian judiciary chief, Ayatollah Mahmoud Shahroudi, rejected Sunday the reports by the International Amnesty, saying they had been publicized un
Iranian car major, the Iran-Khodro Company, intends to manufacture 15,000 Peugeot 206 sports utility model cars during the next Iranian year from March 2001 to March 2002, the company's Deputy Directo
June 18, 2000
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has previously denied Israel's right to exist, envisaged for the first time Sunday the possibility o
Iran's reformist parliament passed Sunday a motion calling for urgent changes to restrictive legislation on the press approved by its conservative-dom
June 17, 2000
Iran has asked to join the G-15 group of developing nations, whose tenth summit opens in Cairo on Monday, and is counting on the support of Malaysia,
Iran's president Mohammad Khatami has appointed reformist minister of post, telegraph and telephones, Mohammad Reza Aref, head the newly formed Planni
Former Iranian president and current head of the state expediency council, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, characterized satellite communication as a necess
June 15, 2000
Thousands of Iranians are fleeing their country for political or religious reasons, passing through Turkey in the search for refuge in the West. Ahmad
Courtroom proceedings in the trial of 13 Iranian Jews accused of spying for Israel have ended, and the defense has completed its work, reported The As