News Archive - 8 July 2013

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's state TV says a site in southern Iran has been selected for a planned new nuclear research reactor.

Latest VideoJuly 9th, 2013     Iranian post and ministry of communication signed contract and inaugurate national email Following agreement between Iranian post  and ministry of communication first phase of national email was inaugurated on Monday 7 July . According to the system , correspondences between users will not be transferred through...

Latest VideoJuly 9th, 2013     How Khamenei office prove the beginning of Ramadan to be different with Islamic world ! The beginning of the religious month of the month of Ramadan in Iran , depend to approval of visibility of the moon crescent by the leadership . In that regard , huge...

Latest VideoJuly 8th, 2013     Female free fall parachutist Fatemeh Akrami in a men ‘s world of Islamic Republic Female free fall parachutist Fatemeh Akrami demonstrate her skills by jumping from a light aircraft in Tehran .

Latest VideoJuly 8th, 2013     Press conference of Egyptian police and army while Muslim brotherhood try to disrupt with slogans Muslim Botherhood supporters tried to disrupt press conference of Egyptian police and army with slogan and intimidation , while Egyptian officials give an account about confrontation with the crowd on...

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's Foreign Ministry on Sunday criticized the Egyptian military's toppling of the nation's Islamist president, calling the move improper in its first official reaction.

>The Malaysian-owned MV Albedo cargo vessel and its crew were hijacked 900 miles off Somalia on Nov. 26, 2010 while sailing from the United Arab Emirates to Kenya."The ship has been gradually sinking for almost a week, but it sank totally last night," the pirate said on Monday by...

>It was unclear whether the move would add to regulations on Internet use imposed by a conservative Islamist leadership wary of secular cultural influences it blames on the West.President-elect Hassan Rouhani, a relative moderate who takes office next month, has called for less state intervention in people's private lives,...

>* China sales surge 32 percent* Peugeot reiterates European market outlook (Adds executive comment, details)By Laurence FrostPARIS, July 8 (Reuters) - PSA Peugeot Citroen said its global vehicle sales fell 9.8 percent in the first half as it lost ground in a shrinking European market, partly offset by gains...

>PARIS (Reuters) - French oil giant Total (TOTF.PA) was acquitted on Monday of corruption charges related to the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq by a Paris criminal court. The court also cleared 18 individuals, including Total CEO Christophe de Margerie who was accused of misusing assets in the...

>The comments from Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Araqchi were more disapproving than his immediate reaction last Thursday, when he merely called for the Egyptian people's "legitimate demands" to be fulfilled.Iran welcomed the popular overthrow of Hosni Mubarak in 2011, calling it an "Islamic awakening" inspired in part by its...

>GAZA (Reuters) - Just a year ago, tens of thousands of Hamas supporters took to the streets of Gaza for a noisy celebration of the election of fellow Islamist Mohamed Mursi as Egypt's president. Stunned silence among Hamas officials in the Palestinian enclave, which shares a border with Egypt's lawless...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A protege of Iran's outgoing president said Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his allies will make a comeback as a future force in Iranian politics, newspapers reported on Tuesday.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran burned at least 100 tons of illicit drugs Wednesday, some in a Tehran ceremony attended by officials and foreign dignitaries, to highlight what it says are its unsupported efforts to stem the flow of narcotics across its territory to Europe.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - An Iranian semi-official news agency is reporting that the country's navy has started an exercise in the Caspian Sea. A Fars story Monday quotes Adm. Khordad Hakimi, chief of the northern naval fleet, as saying that the maneuver in Iran's territorial waters will end Thursday.

>BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian troops fought with rebels in Homs on Monday in a battle seen as crucial to the government's attempts to drive a wedge between opposition-held areas and establish links between the capital and President Bashar al-Assad's coastal strongholds. Assad's forces have been on the offensive in the...

>By Mustafa MahmoudKIRKUK, Iraq, July 8 (Reuters) - The flow of crude from Kirkuk in Iraq to the port of Ceyhan in Turkey will resume in two to three days after being interrupted for weeks due to a pipeline leak, two sources in Iraq's state-run North Oil Company (NOC) said...

>The three-year-old company, which provides cloud-based technology that helps businesses identify computer advanced viruses and combat cyber attacks, had previously raised about $6 million.Seculert is among a growing number of startups founded by security industry veterans who are developing new technologies to challenge the anti-virus software long sold by...

Latest VideoJuly 8th, 2013     Khatami shown again on Iranian TV after Hasan Rohani elected president ! Short footage of former reformist president Mohamad Khatami was shown in morning news bulletin  of Iranian TV on Monday 8 July , after Hasan Rohani was elected president .

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's stock exchange on Sunday climbed for the second continuous day following the surprise election of a reformist-backed president.