Ahmadinejad said in a television address today that With this launch the Islamic Republic of Iran has officially achieved a presence in space. (ibtimes.com)
Intellectual movements in Iran involve the Iranian experience of modernity and its associated art, science, literature, poetry, and political structures that have been changing since the 19th century. (wikipedia.org)
Ahmadinejad said he hopes Iranian-Belarusian ties will be expanded in the future and said he is looking forward to Lukashenka visiting Iran. (rferl.org)
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iranian students have staged a rare demonstration against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, setting off firecrackers and burning pictures of him as he delivered a speech at Tehran university, reports said. (cnn.com)
Finally, it is possible that the Israelis were bringing up the issue for another reason: They may have been trying to use the issue as a way to pressure the Russians into supporting harsh sanctions against Iran, as Felgenhauer wrote, and to test the Russian reaction "to a possible Israeli military strike on Iranian nuclear installations. (prospect.org)
DAVOS, Switzerland - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday it is likely that some of the billions of dollars in sanctions relief granted to Iran under a landmark nuclear deal will go to groups deemed terrorists. (pbs.org)
Since 1995, a joint Iran/Pakistan team undertakes a ground survey every April for two weeks in Baluchistan, Pakistan and two weeks in southwest Iran. (fao.org)
2 The plant is located in southern Iran, about 17 kilometers south of the Persian Gulf port of Bushehr. (rferl.org)
3 The Bushehr nuclear power plant, April 2007 (Fars) - The Bushehr plant was the brainchild of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who believed Iran had to prepare for the time when it's oil and natural-gas reserves were exhausted. (rferl.org)
7 The Bushehr nuclear power plant, April 2007 (Fars) - The idle Bushehr facility was damaged by repeated Iraqi air strikes during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War. (rferl.org)
8 The Bushehr nuclear power plant, April 2007 (Fars) - After the war, Iran once again sought foreign partners for its nuclear program and for Bushehr in particular. (rferl.org)
9 The Bushehr nuclear power plant, April 2007 (Fars) - The United States has charged that Iran could use know-how developed at Bushehr as part of an alleged secret nuclear-weapons program. (rferl.org)
12 The Bushehr nuclear power plant, April 2007 (Fars) - Moscow announced that it did not deliver the fuel because Iran had failed to make payments due under the Bushehr agreements. (rferl.org)
Iran maintained that it would not ratify 93 + 2 due to it being denied civilian nuclear technology for Bushehr, despite its positive record with the IAEA. (globalsecurity.org)
Iran had also been considering the construction of three to five additional reactor facilities, which might or might not be located at Bushehr, for an estimated cost of $3.2 billion. (globalsecurity.org)
The Obama administration is tightening travel restrictions on Europeans and others who have visited Iran, Iraq, Syria or Sudan in the last five years. (pbs.org)
In fact, Tehran has already lifted a ban on movements by armed elements of the Kurdish Workers' Party, which fights for an independent Kurdish state in southeastern Turkey and operates the mountainous area at the intersection of the borders of Turkey, Iran and Iraq. (nypost.com)
Reacting to the sham vote, the president-elect of the opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran, Maryam Rajavi, said, "The next parliament will serve as a conduit for intensifying the regime's drive to obtain nuclear weapons, to step up its meddling in Iraq and Lebanon and to crack down further at home. (washingtontimes.com)
Iran was a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), though it had not ratified two additional protocols to the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) Program 93 + 2, which was designed to prevent states from developing nuclear weapons covertly, despite IAEA inspections, as Iraq was able to do prior to the Gulf War. (globalsecurity.org)
And it looks as if the White House is preparing options to mitigate a failure in Iraq and contain Iran. (nypost.com)
In April 2008, Iran expressed interest in the People's Republic of China's participation in the project. (wikipedia.org)
The admiral also understands China's junkie-frantic oil dependency and its consequent taste for geopolitical street-crime: During a U.S. operation against Iran, Beijing would need its fix guaranteed. (nypost.com)
As part of what Iran states is a step toward launching its own manned mission to space, the country claims to have sent a monkey into space on a rocket, and recovered it alive after it returned to Earth. (extremetech.com)
RFE/RL turned to four Iran-watchers for their thoughts on the course the country may follow. (rferl.org)
The Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline , also known as the Peace pipeline , or IP Gas , is an under-construction 2,775-kilometre (1,724 mi) pipeline to deliver natural gas from Iran to Pakistan . (wikipedia.org)
In February 2007, India and Pakistan agreed to pay Iran US$4.93 per million British thermal units (US$4.67/GJ) but some details relating to price adjustment remained open to further negotiation. (wikipedia.org)
On 11 March 2013, inauguration of the construction works on the Pakistani section of the pipeline were inaugurated by president of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari and president of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . (wikipedia.org)
Iran has kept Syria's moribund economy alive with frequent cash injection and investments thought to be worth $20 billion, and also gives Syria "gifts," including weapons worth $150 million a year. (nypost.com)
Iran has opened 14 cultural offices across Syria, largely to propagate its brand of Shiite Islam. (nypost.com)
Those targeting Syria are, in fact, targeting the Islamic Revolution in Iran. (nypost.com)
also known as Zolā ) is a village in Chahriq Rural District , Kuhsar District , Salmas County , West Azerbaijan Province , Iran . (wikipedia.org)
گاو , also Romanized as Gāv ) is a village in Kaghazkonan-e Markazi Rural District , Kaghazkonan District , Meyaneh County , East Azerbaijan Province , Iran . (wikipedia.org)
But, beyond the need for a Navy man at the helm should we have to take on Iran, there's yet another reason for sending Fallon to his new assignment: The Army's leadership has failed us at the strategic level. (nypost.com)
Israel's prime minister has given the Kremlin "a list of Russian scientists believed by the Israelis to be helping Iran to develop a nuclear warhead," and in the past day or so the Russian press has picked up on the news. (prospect.org)
Iran sends a monkey into space and recovers it alive: Should we worry? (extremetech.com)
Iran said on Tuesday it has launched its first locally-built satellite into orbit highlighting the region's progress in space technology. (ibtimes.com)
In order to encourage and persuade private sector to invest in renewable energy power plants, a definite amount in accordance to every 1KWh electricity generated by such power plants will be paid by Iran Department of Enviroment from the fund for plan No.40404002 in annual budjets and by Iran management and programing organization's approval due to not spreading emissions of pollutants to the enviroment. (iea.org)
On 26 July 2002 the Russian government indicated that it planned to continue building new nuclear reactors in Iran as part of a draft plan outlining potential areas of economic, industrial and scientific cooperation with Iran over the coming decade. (globalsecurity.org)
The project was conceptualized in 1989 by Rajendra K. Pachauri in partnership with Ali Shams Ardekani and Sarwar Shar, former Deputy Foreign Minister of Iran. (wikipedia.org)
In August 2010, Iran invited Bangladesh to join the project. (wikipedia.org)
And they want to speak about social issues, about relations between man and woman, about temporary marriage, about prostitution, about all of that because [the regime] just wants to show a society where everybody is happy that Islam is ruling Iran. (rferl.org)
Robert Levinson, the former FBI agent who vanished in Iran in 2007, was not included in the weekend's prisoner swap because he is not believed to be in Iran, said Brett McGurk, the administration's point person on the swap. (pbs.org)
So the message is clear coming from him: 'Don't expect me to turn Iran into a liberal United Kingdom or a liberal United States, it's not going to happen on my watch. (rferl.org)