Iran

Gilani tells Iran that India can join IPI pipeline project whenever it desires

Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline projectIslamabad, Oct. 10 : Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has told Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki that India can join the multi-billion-dollar Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) pipeline project whenever it desires to.

EU, US suspect Iran getting nuke aid from Russia

Iran, Tehran, NuclearParis, Oct. 10 : International nuclear inspectors are investigating whether a Russian scientist helped Iran conduct complex experiments on how to detonate a nuclear weapon, The Telegraph quotes European and American officials, as saying.

Pakistan, Iran may go ahead with gas project without India

Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline projectIslamabad- Pakistan and Iran said Friday they would undertake bilaterally a proposed 7.5-billion-dollar cross-border gas pipeline if India delayed joining the project.

Russia denies plans to sell high-grade missiles to Iran

Russia denies plans to sell high-grade missiles to Iran Moscow  - Russia denied it has plans to sell state-of-the-art missile systems to Iran, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday, in response to questions about Israeli security concerns.

"We have repeatedly declared at the highest political level that we are not going to deliver those kinds of arms into the countries which are in, to put it mildly, unstable areas," Andrei Nesterenko told journalists at a briefing in Moscow Thursday.

Iran bombs cross-border areas in Iraq

IraqBaghdad  - Iran has bombed Kurdish rebel positions in villages along the Iraq-Iran border on Thursday, a senior Iraqi official has said.

"Heavy shelling began at midnight and continued for an hour," the director of Sulaymanyah Zarawa district, Ezad Wasso, told the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency.

The bombing targeted the areas of Razka, Mardo, Shanawa, and Arka, some 15 kilometres from the Iraq-Iran border, Wasso explained, adding that no casualties were reported.

Ex-US official reveals Iran gave America key aid in countering Qaeda after 9/11

Washington, Oct 8: Even though the Bush administration was “not interested” (in its help), after the 9/11 air attacks, Iran had provided it with key assistance in identifying hundreds of Arabs to counter terrorist organization Al Qaeda, by sending copies of passports of around 300 passports, revealed a former US administration official.

With the objective of having a broader relationship with the US, Iran also denied sanctuary to suspected al Qaeda operatives, added the former US official.

On the basis of the copies of passports, the US investigators interrogated these Arab nationals and even expelled many.

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