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  Last Update:  07 February 2012 21:33  GMT                                      Volume. 11363

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Interests of Iran, Persian Gulf Arab states are linked: IRGC Navy chief

Political Desk - Tuesday, 07 February 2012

TEHRAN – Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Naval Force Commander Ali Fadavi has said that the interests of Iran and the Arab states lying on the...

Persian Press Headlines - February 07

Political Desk - Tuesday, 07 February 2012

JAM-E JAM: 10,000 Mehr housing units inaugurated in Qazvin Province TEHRAN-E EMROOZ: Leaders of pyramid scheme firms arrested HAMSHAHRI: Majlis...

Iran mulling ban of imports from hostile countries

Political Desk - Tuesday, 07 February 2012

TEHRAN - The text of the Iranian parliament’s plan calling for a halt to the country’s oil exports to the European Union states that voted for...

Iran sanctions to harm Spain more than other EU states: ambassador

Political Desk - Tuesday, 07 February 2012

TEHRAN – New Spanish Ambassador to Tehran Pedro Antonio Villena Perez has said that sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic will take their toll on...

‘Administration critics have no plan to ally with reformists’

Political Desk - Tuesday, 07 February 2012

TEHRAN – MP Ali Motahhari has dismissed the speculation that the “critics of administration’ may form an alliance with reformists for the March 2...

U.S. will not find Iran’s response to sanctions pleasant: Mehmanparast

Elham Pourmohammadi - Tuesday, 07 February 2012

TEHRAN – Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ramin Mehmanparast has said that the countries that impose sanctions on Iran will not find the Iranian nation’s...

Tehran holds no value for U.S. belligerent or conciliatory policy: IRGC general

Political Desk - Tuesday, 07 February 2012

TEHRAN – Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri has said that the United States’ attitude toward the Islamic republic of...

Excluded principlist candidates establish new bloc

Political Desk - Tuesday, 07 February 2012

TEHRAN – A number of principlist candidates, who have not been included in the list of the United Front of Principlists for the March 2 parliamentary...

EU imports from Iranian crude oil up 7% in Q3, 2011

Economic Desk - Tuesday, 07 February 2012

EU figures show imports of Iranian crude were up about 7 percent in the third quarter of 2011 compared to the second quarter. The EU says it imported about 700,000...

Iran’s handmade carpet exports hit $439 million

Economic Desk - Tuesday, 07 February 2012

Iran exported some $439 million worth of handmade carpets in the first ten months of the current calendar year, which began on March 21, 2011, the vice president of...

Leader advises literati to write poems to boost Islamic Awakening

Art Desk - Tuesday, 07 February 2012

TEHRAN -- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has emphasized the significant role of literature in the uprising of Islamic...


Veteran Iranian animator Esfandiar Ahmadieh dies at 83

Art Desk - Tuesday, 07 February 2012

TEHRAN -- Veteran animator Esfandiar Ahmadieh, who is considered as the father of Iranian animation cinema, died of a blood disease on Tuesday morning at Tehran’s...


Sepasi delivers shocker to Persepolis

Sports Desk - Tuesday, 07 February 2012

TEHRAN – Persepolis football team crashed to a 3-2 defeat against second-bottom Fajr-e Sepasi at Tehran’s Azadi Stadium on Tuesday. The Reds, who had defeated...

Iranian judoka withdraws from Olympics in protest

Sports Desk - Tuesday, 07 February 2012

TEHRAN – Iran’s super heavyweight judoka Mohammad-Reza Rudaki withdrew from the Olympics in protest against the federation’s situation. Rudaki, who qualified for...

Russian FM in Syria for talks with Assad

Staff & Agencies - Tuesday, 07 February 2012

Thousands of Syrians turned up in Damascus on Tuesday to welcome Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. On February 4,...

Report says Mubarak threatens to commit suicide

Middle East Desk - Tuesday, 07 February 2012

Ousted Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak has reportedly threatened to commit suicide if he is transferred to a prison hospital...

‘Freedom for Peltier and justice for all aboriginal communities’

World Desk - Tuesday, 07 February 2012

TORONTO – The struggle for freedom for American Indian activist Leonard Peltier, wrongly extradited from Canada to the U.S....

Fidel Castro warns of bleak future

World Desk - Tuesday, 07 February 2012

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro painted a bleak picture of the future, saying the world was in its...

What amount of global warming is human-caused?

Kaitlin Alexander - Tuesday, 07 February 2012

A growing body of research is showing that humans are likely causing more than 100% of global warming: without our influences...

iPhone leaps to third place in mobile market

Tech Desk - Tuesday, 07 February 2012

An outbreak of iPhone fever made Apple the third hottest mobile phone maker worldwide at the end of 2011, according to the...