Iran
May 17, 2000
A lawyer representing the defense team for the Iranian Jews accused of spying for Israel said the penalty for espionage was a long prison term, not de
May 16, 2000
Iranian judicial authorities have assured a French lawyer that none of the 13 Jews currently on trial for allegedly spying for Israel will be sentence
May 15, 2000
Saudi Arabia welcomed Monday the announcement by Iran that it had stopped all drilling at the Dorra offshore gas field which Riyadh, Kuwait and Tehran
Iranian supervisory council said Sunday it would announce the results of its recount this week, AP reported. The Guardian Council "decided to anno
Iranian President Mohammed Khatami suffered a mild heart problem last week and spent several hours at a Tehran clinic, a hospital source familiar with
Iran recently announced its aim to export $100 million worth of carpets to the USA per year, following the removal of the US ban on Iranian carpets imports adopted last March. Nasrallah Zada, th
May 14, 2000
The US market has the capacity to take in up to $100 million worth of Iranian carpets annually, Iranian news agency (IRNA) said in a report Sunday, so
Morteza has just about everything at his ladies' shoe shop in fashionable north Tehran, from calf-length leather boots to open-toe sandals to clunky b
Iran's armed exiled opposition, the People's Mujahedeen, claimed responsibility for the explosions Saturday in the Iranian town of Kermanshah that inj
May 13, 2000
Amnesty International, has called for the trial in Iran of 13 Iranian Jews accused of spying for Israel to be held in public, the BBC reported Friday.
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday lashed out at reformists, accusing them of undermining his position and the country's Islamic s
May 12, 2000
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak told an enthusiastic rally of Jews from the former Soviet Union Thursday he hoped another million Jews from their pr
A member of Iran's armed exiled opposition, the People's Mujahedeen, and two Iraqi bandits were arrested overnight Wednesday on the border with Iraq,
May 11, 2000
More than 200 Iranian clergymen have come out in support of reforms by President Mohammad Khatami, which are under increasing attack by hard-line cler
May 10, 2000
The Iranian parliament has approved an emergency aid package worth over $180m for farmers hit by the serious drought in central and eastern parts of t