The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WI) has just published the final version of a report by the Task Force on the Future of U.S.-Israel relations. The title is appealing: How to Deepen U.S...Read More
India has prohibited trade in all arms and related products with Iran and North Korea in compliance with the UN Security Council`s resolution to stop import and export of items which may contribute to..Read More
Iran has sought to be associated with SAARC as an observer, a move welcomed by India. "Iran has applied for Observer status formally," Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said when asked about it.He ..Read More
Iran has started building a 700 kilometre-long concrete wall along its border with Pakistan. Pakistan's neighbour to the west has also increased patrols along the border with Pakistan and has ste..Read More
A North Korean freighter, MV-Omranili, which was on its way to Iran 'found itself' in Indian waters after an 'engine failure' and has been detained in Mumbai. The Coast Guard, the ..Read More
Iran has successfully test-fired three new models of sea missiles in a new show of force to assert its military capacities in the Gulf, Iranian military officials said on Friday.Television showed foot..Read More
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mehdi Safari Tuesday met senior Indian officials, including Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran and National Security adviser M.K. Narayanan here in New Delhi on Tuesday.Iran..Read More
Iran is said to have successfully tested an upgraded, indegenious, guided surface-to-sea missile, media reports confirmed on Saturday The missile was tested at the Persian Gulf and Sea of Oman during ..Read More
Iran said on Sunday it would not suspend uranium enrichment, ruling out the main demand in a nuclear package backed by six world powers that aims to allay Western fears that Tehran is seeking to build..Read More
Iran is ready to strike Tel Aviv with its medium-range missiles if ever attacked, said an influential senior cleric on Tuesday."If they (U.S. and Israel) militarily attack Iran ... They should be afra..Read More
New York: Bombing raids against Iran would not be succesful and will fail to destroy the country's nuclear programme as there was a lack of reliable intelligence, senior officials have war..Read More
Tehran:Iran has denied accusations that it had illegally purchased cruise missiles from Ukraine, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said Sunday.Asefi said Iran had not committe..Read More
Moscow: A Ukrainian firm supplied China and Iran with six long-range cruise missile in 2000-2001, Russia's defense minister said Friday.Sergei Ivanov, who is also a deputy prime minister, ..Read More
Tehran: A pilotless Iranian reconnaissance plane circled for 25 minutes over a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf before returning safely to its base, a senior Iranian official said Tues..Read More
Beijing: China's space giant today opposed US' move to freeze the firm's assets on its soil and denounced as "groundless" Washington's accusations that it aided Iran's ..Read More
Russia has agreed to a British proposal to suspend military exports to Iran but this won’t be for long nor will contracted deals be scrapped.Russian-Iranian defence deals are bilateral and nearly a d..Read More
Iran is shopping for military high-tech weapon systems from three Central Asian nations for the last two months and is paying great sums for them.Iran has sent nine delegations in the past two and hal..Read More
Islamabad: Pakistan has welcomed the statement by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice indicating her country's willingness to talk to Iran on the nuclear issue. Official Associated Pres..Read More
Moscow: Russia would fulfill a contract to supply its sophisticated Tor-M1 air defence systems to Iran, the Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov said Friday. According to the Itar-Tass news a..Read More
Tel Aviv: Iran test-fired a long-range missile, Israeli defence officials said Wednesday, as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and US President George W. Bush were expressing concern over Iran's ..Read More
Russia and China will submit a new proposal to the UN Security Council next week to find a peaceful solution to the ongoing Iranian nuclear crisis and urge the world body to show more patience.Russia ..Read More
Islamabad: Pakistan did not supply Stinger missiles to Iran and only 35 missiles reached Iran that too by mistake, said Lieutenant General (r) Hameed Gul, the former director general of the Int..Read More
Moscow: The major role of the Russian army on the international arena is to prevent a new world war, the chief of the General Staff said Tuesday."It is my personal opinion that the main goal of..Read More
Tehran: The Iranian parliament threatened in a letter to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan today to force the government to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty if the United States ..Read More
China has threatened to veto the draft action plan against Iran to be discussed and adopted by the UN Security Council next week that speaks of sanctions followed by military strikes.Chinese foreign m..Read More
Unitd Nations: The stage is set for a major confrontation between the West and Iran after the IAEA said that the gulf nation has failed to comply with a UN deadline to halt uranium enrichment a..Read More
New Delhi: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday discussed energy cooperation and the need to push forward the tri-nation pipeline with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The telephon..Read More
Russian president Vladimir Putin has warned the EU three, France, Germany and the UK, that he would veto in the UN Security Council unless more time is given to find a peaceful solution to the Iran cr..Read More
Pakistan president General Pervez Musharraf has agreed to a Saudi proposal to facilitate a preemptive attack against Iran if it comes close to making a nuclear device, and in this, the GCC as a whole ..Read More
Moscow: Israel's Eros-B1 satellite that will reportedly monitor Iranian nuclear facilities was successfully launched into orbit from eastern Russia early Wednesday, military officials sai..Read More
New Delhi: The US might be compelled to attack Iran if it continues with its clandestine nuclear programme, but this would have a 'volcanic reaction', former US ambassador to India Ro..Read More
Moscow: The chief of the General Staff said Wednesday that Russia would honor its commitments on supplying military equipment to Iran."We discussed supplies of military equipment to Iran, inclu..Read More
Baku: Iran is not scared by the United States' threats of military force, the Iranian Defence Minister said today. "We are not scared of the US threats," Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar said durin..Read More
Moscow: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov today called on Iran to halt all uranium enrichment activities, saying the international community is demanding "urgent and constructive steps" fr..Read More
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday refuted speculation about India 'succumbing' to US pressure on the Iranian nuclear issue and said Tehran's nuclear weapon ambitio..Read More
Vienna: Iran has expanded its uranium conversion facilities in Isfahan and reinforced its Natanz underground uranium enrichment plant, a U.S. think tank said, amid growing concern over possible..Read More
Tehran: Iran said it could defeat any American military action over its controversial nuclear drive, in one of the Islamic regime's boldest challenges yet to the United States."You can sta..Read More
Britain, France and Germany are almost ready with a draft proposal for UN Security Council economic sanctions against Iran, but a delegation is due in Moscow to convince Russia to go alongwith this.Ir..Read More
Jerusalem: Israel reacted cautiously on Wednesday to news of Iran's successful enrichment of uranium, saying that while a threat to the Jewish state existed, diplomacy remained the best wa..Read More
Tehran: The deputy nuclear chief said on Wednesday that Iran intends to move toward large-scale uranium enrichment involving 54,000 centrifuges, signaling the country's resolve to expand a..Read More
Washington: With concerns over Iran's nuclear ambitions growing and diplomatic discussions yielding precious little so far, the Bush administration has not ruled out the possibility of mil..Read More
India is worried about the Iranian military build up in the Persian Gulf region which could destabilise the economies of many countries, including India.India has been alerted since Iran asked Russia ..Read More
Moscow: The chief of Russia's General Staff said Monday he could neither confirm nor deny reports that Ukraine had sold 250 nuclear warheads to Iran."Russia's General Staff has no inf..Read More
An informal visit by Iran's naval cadet training ships to Kochi port in Kerala emerged as an issue of concern for some members of the US Congress during the debate on changes to US laws to facili..Read More
Washington: The administration of President George W. Bush is studying options for military strikes against Iran as part of a broader strategy of coercive diplomacy to pressure Tehran to abando..Read More
Moscow: Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov today said Iran was not in possession of any Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) ''I would like to reassure the world community..Read More
Tehran: Iran on Tuesday successfully tested its Kowsar short- to medium-range land-to-sea missile, state radio reported.The radio said the Kowsar could evade radar and that its guidance system..Read More
Tehran: Iran on Tuesday successfully tested a "super-modern flying boat", state television said, giving another vague description of military hardware Iranian forces are testing in Gulf wargame..Read More
Tehran: Iran said on Sunday it had test fired what it described as the world's fastest underwater missile during a week of war games in the Gulf, Iranian state television reported."The wor..Read More
Tehran: Iran successfully test-fired a locally made missile with the ability to carry a warhead and avoid radar, the air force chief of the elite Revolutionary Guards said Friday."Today, a rema..Read More
Tehran: Thousands of Iranian troops will on Friday start a week-long military maneuver in the Gulf to ready armed forces for warding off "threats", a senior commander announced on state televis..Read More
Berlin: German customs agents have raided the offices of 41 companies and found extensive evidence for illegal exports to support Iran's nuclear program. Some 250 German agents last week s..Read More
London: Britain is pressing for a U.N. resolution that would pave the way for sanctions or possible force against Iran should it fail to halt its nuclear program. In a confidential government l..Read More
Beijing: China and Russia are united in pushing for more diplomacy to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue, China said on Tuesday, a day after the two deflected Western moves to authorize U.N. Sec..Read More
Iran is using academic institutions as a cover for research and development of its nuclear weapons program, a leading opposition figure said Monday. "Given Tehran's record of lies and deceptions,..Read More
Iran has given enough hints that it may withdraw from the NPT if the UN Security Council (UNSC) moves to impose sanctions against it.Iran briefed its position to Russian leaders, saying it would unila..Read More
Washington: The White House called Iran the greatest threat to the US on Thursday and warned that it will take pre-emptive military action if necessary to protect itself."We may face no greater..Read More
During Russian PM Mikhail Fradkov's visit to India, the government will ask him to convince Iran to reduce tensions with the West since it is robbing it of sympathy and bringing instability to th..Read More
Iran has said it is ready to continue negotiations with Russia on a joint uranium-enrichment venture to end the current impasse around the Mideast country's nuclear program, a Russian diplomatic ..Read More
Washington: As the United Nations Security Council gets ready to hear the Iran nuclear issue this week, American lawmakers have told the Bush administration that while military action against T..Read More
Realising the imminence of economic sanctions by the UN Security Council (UNSC), Iran has changed its strategy to delay the negotiations about its illegal weaponsDiplomats said Iran..Read More
Cochin: Two Iranian naval ships arrived here today for a five-day training session. The ships -- IRIS Bandar Abbas, a fleet supply ship converted as a training ship and IRIS Lavan, an amphibiou..Read More
New Delhi: India and Russia have held talks on the eve of a key meeting of the UN atomic watchdog over the Iran issue. Indian Premier Manmohan Singh "lauded Russia's efforts to address the..Read More
The US and the European Union have warned Iran to accept the Russian offer to enrich its uranium and relocate all its enrichment facility to that country or face tough dealings in the UN Security Coun..Read More
Tehran: Recent political developments will not affect the cooperation between India and Iran over the 150-million dollar deal for the construction of two container piers at Chabahar Port in sou..Read More
Washington: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has urged Iran to take steps to resume talks on its controversial nuclear programme before the IAEA meeting next month and prevent any action that mi..Read More
Vienna: Iran has started putting uranium feedstock gas into centrifuges, defying the West with actual enrichment work on making what can be nuclear reactor fuel or atom bomb material, diplomats..Read More
London: The United States is drawing up plans for bombing raids backed by submarine-launched ballistic missile attacks against Iran's nuclear sites as a 'last resort' to block Te..Read More
Moscow: Amid the escalating crisis around Iran's nuclear programme, Russia said Thursday that it will still arm Tehran with missiles that can secure nuclear facilities from attacks."We con..Read More
The United States has been in an unremitting state of confrontation with Iran ever since 1979 when the Islamic Revolution overthrew the American ally, the Shah of Iran. In United States security perce..Read More
Britain is all set to push for an early sanction against Iran in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to force it to return for unconditional negotiations.Diplomats said that Britain, Germany, t..Read More
Islamabad: With IAEA voting to report the Iran to the UN Security Council over its nuclear programme, Pakistan on Monday opposed the use of force in Tehran's case, saying the country has t..Read More
Tehran: Iran said today it had formally notified the UN nuclear watchdog of its decision to restart sensitive nuclear work at the centre of international concerns the hardline regime could acqu..Read More
Iranian president Mohammad Ahmadinejad is evaluating an all out military response, including closing the Strait of Hormuz, if Iran is attacked by US-led Western powers for its WMD programme.Iran told ..Read More
Vienna: The UN nuclear watchdog on Saturday voted to send Iran to the UN Security Council over concerns that Tehran is developing atomic weapons. Meanwhile, India has voted against Iran in IAEA..Read More
New Delhi: There could be serious risks for India if it supports any vote against Iran at the IAEA, warned a senior Iranian official.Dr Mostafa Zahrani told CNN-IBN in New Delhi that Iran is bo..Read More
India is all set to vote against Iran at the IAEA meeting on Thursday, after Russia and the European troika of the UK, France and Germany signaled failure of diplomacy with Teheran.Officials said on d..Read More
Iranian chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani, who met his Russian counterpart, Igor Ivanov, this week to resolve the vexed enrichment issue, is hinting that full enrichment cannot be shifted to Russi..Read More
Moscow: Iran's nuclear program may turn the country into a "leading player" in the Middle East, Russian experts said Thursday."Iran is striving to take a dominant position in the region, a..Read More
New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs summoned US Ambassador David Mulford to South Block on Thursday and Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran asked him to clarify his remarks linking the succes..Read More
China has activated its diplomacy to persuade Iran to suspend uranium enrichment activities to find a new role for itself in international mediation on sensitive issues and replace Russia as a favoure..Read More
US undersecretary of state Nicholas Burns has told the Indian side that Washington is expecting close cooperation on the Iran issue and that checking WMD proliferation in the region is good for India...Read More
An US bomb just missed the Al-Qaeda number two in NWFP, Ayman al-Jawahiri, but killed civilians, but worse is in store for Pakistan, and General Parvez Musharraf, this time on Iran. Like it had to tur..Read More
Limited military strikes on select secret Iranian nuclear sites are being planned by NATO, the Pentagon and some US allies, after concrete intelligence about Iran's WMD programme was revealed by ..Read More
The 24 November IAEA meeting in Vienna did not refer Iran's case to the Security Council. But, the US has not ruled out military action against Iran. The lack of unanimity in referring Iran to th..Read More
Washington The US-India civilian nuclear cooperation deal could be jeopardised if India fails to back US and European move to refer Iran's controversial nuclear programme to the UN Securit..Read More
Tehran A defiant Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said his country had every right to possess nuclear technology but insisted it was not interested in acquiring nuclear weapons."We hav..Read More
New Delhi Amid deepening Iran nuclear crisis, India and the United States have held consultations on the issue after Europe's big three powers called for UN Security Council action against..Read More
While preparations are underway to denuke Iran, Germany and Britain have suggested to the US, Russia, France, China, India, Canada, Japan and South Korea that a trade embargo should be imposed on it w..Read More
Tehran Iran resumed full atomic fuel research today, the International Atomic Energy Agency announced, adding that "the research will involve small-scale enrichment of uranium, useable in power..Read More
The United States is mulling a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities in 2006 and has informed North Atalantic Treaty Organisation member states to make similar preparations, a report claimed Sunday..Read More
Jerusalem: Israel has warned that Iran will certainly have nuclear capability within one or two years if its programme goes ahead unchecked. The chairman of Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defence ..Read More
The week-long violence in Baluchistan where the Pakistan military has been bombing and fighting rebellious Marri tribesmen is being blamed on Iranian intelligence and their Islamic Revolutionary Guard..Read More
An entire panorama of issues unexpectedly comes into view in the international reaction to recent remarks by Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad, implying that European powers should have salved thei..Read More
Tehran: Iran opened the door today for U.S. Help in building a nuclear power plant a move designed to ease American suspicions that Tehran is using its nuclear program as a cover to build atomi..Read More
Russia intends to sell 29 Tor M-1 anti-missile systems capable of downing cruise missiles and air bombs to Iran, the Vedomosti newspaper wrote with reference to an anonymous manager of a defense enter..Read More
Tehran: Iran on Sunday dismissed fresh U.S. allegations about its atomic ambitions as a bid to blight a crucial meeting of the U.N. nuclear watchdog later this month.U.S. officials said new evi..Read More
Iran has rejected a US and EU-3 proposal to continue with its civilian nuclear programme if Russia enriches its fuel, saying it defeats its national goal to be energy self-reliant.It has agreed to the..Read More
The US special forces will conduct a massive war drill near the Gulf of Oman to apparently convey a message to Iran that blocking the sea routes in the event of hostilities wonThe US defence departmen..Read More
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov has said his country was against Iran obtaining nuclear weapons. "Russia, as a civilised nation, is against the acquisition of nuclear weapons by Iran, or by any..Read More
