Tehran, April 30, IRNA
A seven-member parliamentary delegation left Tehran for Havana Monday for an official visit.
Iranian Head of Iran-Cuba Parliamentary Friendship Group and an MP from central city of Shahreza Avaz Heidarpour heads the delegation.
The Iranian delegation is scheduled to hold talks with senior political and parliamentary officials.
The two sides are to explore avenues for […]
Hosseini made the statement at his weekly press briefing in response to a question about the invitation of Iranian athletes by the US National Olympic Committee to participate in the warm-up camps in the US.
The spokesman underlined that Iran has no problem in this regard, provided Iranian sportsmen are treated properly and respectfully.
Meanwhile, he […]
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday highlighted the significant status of labor in the country’s economic development.
In a meeting with several thousand workers in Tehran on the eve of Labor day, May 1, the Supreme Leader said that the government should draw up a suitable program to clarify relations between […]
An Afghan tribesman with an uncanny resemblance to Osama bin Laden has now been arrested twice, both times following reported sightings and massive manhunts for the al Qaeda leader, Pakistani intelligence officials tell ABC News.
Over six feet tall and with the same angular nose as bin Laden, Sher Akbar comes from an Afghan village, Bagh […]
The woman charged in a federal indictment with running a high-class Washington, D.C. call girl service says she plans to call her prominent clients to testify at her trial.
Jeane Palfrey, dubbed the D.C. Madam, says among those she will call to testify are Randall Tobias, who resigned Friday as deputy secretary of state after confirming […]
(CBS/AP) A British jury found five men guilty Monday of plotting to use a massive fertilizer bomb to attack a London nightclub, power plants or a shopping mall.
The yearlong trial was Britain’s longest-ever terror case. Details that were kept secret to ensure a fair trial have now been revealed, showing ties between the five and […]
(CBS/AP) The mildly toxic chemical melamine is commonly added to animal feed in China, a manager of a feed company and one of the chemical’s producers said Monday, a process that boosts the feed’s sales value but risks introducing the chemical into meat eaten by humans.
Customers either don’t know or aren’t concerned about the practice, […]
(CBS/AP) Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency following the collapse of one of the San Francisco Bay area’s most traveled sections of freeway, as workers began clearing debris from a fiery accident that destroyed an important commuter link.
An elevated section of highway that carried motorists from the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to a […]
LONDON, England (CNN) — Five Britons have been jailed for life after being found guilty of plotting to carry out al Qaeda-inspired bomb attacks across Britain on targets ranging from a nightclub to a shopping mall.
The gang planned to use 600 kg (1,300 lb) of fertilizer to make explosives to be used in bombings in […]
Late at night, a system administrator performed a routine check of a crashed server, one of 48 systems comprising a major online infrastructure that generated about $4 million per month in revenue. He was a bit surprised that the system had gone down, as it had been humming for months without any indication of being […]
