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  • Iranian Wrestlers Abruptly Leave US Early

    The U.S. State Department has denied Iranian media reports that the United States deported the Iranian wrestling team ahead of a Sunday meet in Los Angeles. A State Department official tells VOA's Persian News Network that U.S. authorities had nothing to do with their departure. The wrestlers abruptly returned home after beating the American team in an exhibition Wednesday at Grand ...

  • Iran proposes to hold meeting of friends of Syria in Tehran

    MOSCOW, May 18 (Itar-Tass) - Iran proposes to hold an alternative meeting of friends of Syria in Tehran, Iranian Ambassador to Russia Reza Sajjadi said on ...

  • Iran ready to let IAEA observers in Parchin after protocol signed

    MOSCOW, May 18 (Itar-Tass) - Iran is ready to let IAEA observers in Parchin only after a special protocol is signed, Iranian Ambassador to Russia Reza Sajjadi said on ...

  • President of Iran to visit Moscow from Jul 1-2

    MOSCOW, May 18 (Itar-Tass) - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit Moscow from July 1-2, Iranian Ambassador to Russia Reza Sajjadi said on ...

  • Iranian President Could Attend Russia’s Gas Forum in July

    MOSCOW, May 18 (RIA Novosti) – Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad is expected to visit Russia in July to attend the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), a spokesman for Iran’s Embassy in Moscow said on Saturday. The Iranian leader has accepted Russia’s invitation to attend the event. "Now we are working on this visit, but the final decision has yet to be made," ...

Movie Review

One Night at McCool's

In One Night at McCool's, Liv Tyler plays Jewel, a curvaceous bombshell scam artist who wraps a trio of idiotic men around her finger, proving what seems to be the movie's only point: Men think with the wrong head. Despite being at various stations in life, none of the men here are strong enough to resist Jewel's wiles, even when it becomes plainly obvious that she is bad news in every way ... ...

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  • Iran Wants More Money From You

    gasoline in 2012 than in any other yearever. Meanwhile, here in 2013, retail gasoline prices spiked to $3.60 a gallon on average -- $3.94 on the West Coast -- the sharpest rise in prices seen in the past three months. And Iran is happy to hear it. In fact, if the Islamic Republic has anything to say about it, Americans could wind up paying even more for gas than we already do. Right now, a ...

  • The Iranian threat isn’t nuclear – it’s political

    During the eight years of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's presidency, Iran has become an increasingly dangerous place. That danger, however, is not posed by nuclear weapons - which remain an uncertain and, at worst, long-term threat - but more urgently from Iran's own self-imposed collapse.Far worse than Mr. Ahmadinejad's comic-book sabre-rattling at Israel and the West, worse than his ...

  • MFA controls situation with Azerbaijani citizens detention in Iran

    The Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs is controlling the issue regarding the detained Azerbaijani citizens in Iran. This was announced Deputy Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Khalaf Khalafov, Gun.Az reports. "We are still in contact with the relevant authorities of Iran. The Azerbaijani Embassy in Tehran and the Consulate General in Tabriz keep this issue under control," said ...

  • Women cannot contest Iran presidential election

    (MENAFN - Arab News) Women can not contest Iran's June 14 presidential election, a member of the Islamic state's electoral watchdog said in media reports yesterday, dashing the hopes of some 30 female candidates."The law prohibits women from being president," said hard-line cleric and former judiciary chief Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, quoted by the Mehr news agency.Yazdi is a ...

  • Brazil president says asylum offer to adulterous Iran woman is humanitarian gesture

    The decision to give refuge to a convicted Iranian woman should be seen as a humanitarian act without political motives, said Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. "I made the offer for humanitarianism, instead of politics," Xinhua quoted da Silva, as saying while referring to the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, 43, who has been convicted of adultery and sentenced to ...

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