Week-long campaign commences for parliamentary elections that will likely highlight rivalry within conservative camp.

More than 3,400 candidates across Iran have launched their campaigns for next week's parliamentary elections, which mark the first test of popularity for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad since his disputed 2009 re-election.The week- ( Read more... )

Israel has accused Iran of being behind three blasts in Bangkok [today] that injured five people and blew off the legs of the alleged bomber - an Iranian national who was fleeing police when the grenade slipped through his hands and detonated next to him.

The blasts came just a day after bombs targeted Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia, and has ( Read more... )

TEHRAN - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to visit Venezuela and Cuba as part of a four-nation Latin America tour in the second week of January 2012, an official said Wednesday ( Read more... )

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Iran brokers behind-the-scenes deal for pro-Tehran government in Iraq

Exclusive: Fears over Iran's influence after secret talks involving Syria, Hezbollah and the highest authorities in Shia Islam

Iran has brokered a critical deal with its regional neighbours that could see a pro-Tehran government installed in Iraq, a move that would ( Read more... )

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - The Iranian President ended a historical two-day visit to Lebanon after meeting with Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah who offered Mahmoud Ahmadinejad an Israeli rifle captured during the 2006 July War as an appreciation for Iran’s support to the Islamic resistance in Lebanon.

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They missed. Instead ended up blowing up a neighbouring car full of journalists. Ahmadinejad is blaming America.

Is it really wrong of me that I find myself wishing the assassin had succeeded? I certainly wish those journalists didn't have to pay for that assassin's mistake.

(Source - ITN video)

The Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv on Wednesday reported that Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu told an audience at Bar Ilan university that the September 11, 2001 terror attacks had been beneficial for Israel.

"We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq," Ma'ariv quoted the ( Read more... )

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