Tehran - Tehran on Wednesday categorically denied a meeting between officials of Iran and the United States occurred at a UN conference in the Netherlands, the Mehr news agency reported.
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had said the US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, met briefly Tuesday with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mehdi Akhunzadeh at the conference on Afghanistan in The Hague.
Sana'a, Yemen - A Yemeni state security court on Tuesday convicted two Yemenis of spying for Iran and sentenced them to death. The court acquitted a third defendant.
Abdul-Kareem Lalji, 33, and Hani Muhammed Deen, 31, were found guilty of the charges of "illegal contact with a foreign state, and the transmission of military information to it."
Presiding judge Muhssien Alwan said the court acquitted the third defendant Iskandar Abdullah Yusuf, 57, for the lack of evidence.
Tehran - Ali Daei was dismissed as Iran coach after a 2-1 home defeat against Saudi Arabia in a World Cup qualifier, ISNA news agency reported on Sunday.
Other news agencies also confirmed Daei's dismissal, including official news agency IRNA.
ISNA had earlier Sunday quoted Iranian Football Federation (FFI) president Ali Kafashian as saying that an emergency FFI session was held in this regard.
Washington - A US court on Friday ordered Iran to pay 25 million dollars plus interest to the family of an Israeli soldier kidnapped and killed by Hamas 15 years ago.
Nachshon Wachsman, a 19-year-old soldier with both US and Israeli citizenship, was kidnapped by four members of Hamas in 1994, while waiting for a ride on a street in Lod, Israel.
He was held captive for six days before being executed by his captors as the Israeli military staged a rescue operation to free him oustide Jerusalem.
Tehran - Iran had no hostility toward the United States but requires signs of amity to put an end to three decades of diplomatic estrangement, ex-president Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani said at a Friday prayer ceremony in Tehran.
"We have no hostility with the American nation, but there should be some signs of goodwill to change the status quo," said Rafsanjani, who still plays an influential role in the Iranian political scene as head of the Experts Assembly, a powerful religious body.
Washington, Mar. 27 : The chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee John Kerry has said the United States may seek cooperation from India, China, and Iran to stabilize Afghanistan.
"We also need to reach out to Afghanistan's other neighbours, including India, China, and Iran," the Dawn quoted Kerry, as saying at the confirmation hearing for the new US ambassador to Afghanistan.
Tehran - Tehran on Wednesday categorically denied a meeting between officials of Iran and the United States occurred at a UN conference in the Netherlands, the Mehr news agency reported.
Sana'a, Yemen - A Yemeni state security court on Tuesday convicted two Yemenis of spying for Iran and sentenced them to death. The court acquitted a third defendant.
Tehran - Ali Daei was dismissed as Iran coach after a 2-1 home defeat against Saudi Arabia in a World Cup qualifier, ISNA news agency reported on Sunday.
Washington - A US court on Friday ordered Iran to pay 25 million dollars plus interest to the family of an Israeli soldier kidnapped and killed by Hamas 15 years ago.
Tehran - Iran had no hostility toward the United States but requires signs of amity to put an end to three decades of diplomatic estrangement, ex-president Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani said at a Friday prayer ceremony in Tehran.
Washington, Mar. 27 : The chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee John Kerry has said the United States may seek cooperation from India, China, and Iran to stabilize Afghanistan.
