Iran
February 4, 2013
Saeed Jalil, the senior Iranian official visiting Damascus, tells reporters that Assad has their full support.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will become the first Iranian president to travel to Egypt in over 30 years when he visits Cairo next week to take part in a summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Reuters reported.
February 3, 2013
At least 30 people are reported dead after a suicide bomber and a gunmen attack police headquarters in Kirkuk.
February 2, 2013
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton issued a parting warning Thursday about Syria’s civil war, accusing Iran of playing an increasingly prominent role in directing the violence.
February 1, 2013
"Argo" continues to shake up the Oscar race by taking the top honour at the Producers Guild Awards on Saturday.
January 31, 2013
Iran has called for international help to recover a $40 million gas rig from the Gulf seabed, Mehr news agency reported.
January 30, 2013
Iran said it could move to sue BP over an oil spill last year at the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli oil platform it operates after oil from the spill washed up on Iranian beaches
January 29, 2013
The U.S. Navy assisted Yemeni forces in capturing the vessel bound for insurgents in Yemen.
An explosion has rocked Iran’s Fordo Nuclear plant, according to Israeli and Western media reports, but Tehran’s Fars news agency quoted the deputy chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces denying the reports as propaganda.
January 28, 2013
Iran is cutting off oil and natural gas exports to European countries until further notice, a spokesman for the Iranian Oil Ministry said.
A former Iranian official has said there was an explosion at an nuclear facility in the country, a claim that the Islamic Republic strongly denies.
Authorities in the Persian state arrest local members of the press accused of cooperating with Persian-language foreign media agencies.
January 27, 2013
Islamic republic warns the West against striking Damascus.
January 23, 2013
China's crude oil imports from Iran reached 2.5 million tons in December 2012, up 43 percent from November, official data showed, in spite of Western sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
January 22, 2013
New paramilitary force evolved from local defense committees.