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  • No soldiers sent to Syria Iranian defence minister

    Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi denied Saturday that Iran has dispatched any military forces to Syria, reported Xinhua citing the semi-official Fars news agency. "The Islamic republic of Iran has not sent and will not dispatch any military forces to Syria," Vahidi said, adding that Tehran only supports consolidation of peace and tranquillity in Syria and in the ...

  • France rules out Iran joining in Syria peace talks

    ABU DHABI - France's foreign minister on Saturday ruled out Iran taking part in a proposed Syria peace conference, saying Tehran was involved in the conflict and had no desire for peace.Laurent Fabius will host Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry at a dinner on Monday to discuss how to nudge Syrian President Bashar Assad and the Syrian opposition ...

  • Iranian student at Chicago film school wins Cannes short film prize

    Anahita Ghazvinizadeh won $19,500 for her work on the 21-minute movie "Needle," about a sixth-grade girl torn between her divorcing parents, the Chicago Tribune reported Saturday. "Piano" director Jane Campion served as the jury president of the Cinefondation short film competition. Ghazvinizadeh had previously directed the short film "When the Kid Was a Kid" ...

  • Iran says never sent military forces to Syria

    View Photo AFP/Hemmat Khahi - Iranian Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi stands next to the new Iranian-made drone "Epic" during a ceremony in Tehran on May 9, 2013. Vahidi insisted on Saturday that the country has never ...

  • Iran at the height of his power military commander says

    Tehran, May 25 (Prensa Latina) Iran is now at the zenith of its power, said today the Guard Corps Deputy Commander of the Islamic Revolution (IRGC), General Hossein Salami. The enemies fail in various policy scenarios, said in a meeting with the Basij military chief, who reiterated that his country has achieved self-sufficiency in military industries and defense. The IRGC and Basij (Persian) is ...

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  • Saudi Foreign Minister calls Irans nuclear program danger to regions security

    RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal has warned against the danger of Iran's nuclear program to the region's security and said Iran should not threaten its neighbours since countries in the region harbour no ill-intentions to the Islamic Republic. "We stress the danger of the Iranian nuclear program to the security of the whole region," Prince ...

  • Iran denies it has forces fighting in Syria

    FILE - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Jordan's Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh in Amman, Jordan, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Jordan is hosting 10 other nations Wednesday for a "Friends of Syria" conference in Amman. (AP Photo/Jim Young, ...

  • Iranian director facing jail appears in Cannes

    Director Mohammad Rasoulof poses for photographers during a photo call for the film Manuscripts don't Burn at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Friday, May 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Lionel ...

  • Senegal breaks with Iran over arms smuggle

    Senegal today has broken all ties with Iran, following the January seizure of an arms shipments destined to its Casamance rebels. The move could spell a large setback for Iran all over ...

  • Report US traces cyber attack wave to Iran

    May 25, 2013 American officials and corporate security experts examining a new wave of potentially destructive computer attacks striking American corporations, especially energy firms, say they have tracked the attacks back to Iran, the New York Times reported on Friday. According to the report, the targets have included several American oil, gas and electricity companies, which government ...

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