Tehran - Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi was safe and there was no need for any international concern over her well-being, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Ghashghavi said Monday.

The spokesman was referring to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon who on Saturday urged Tehran to secure Ebadi's safety after Islamists gathered outside her residence in Tehran last week, accusing her of having sympathy for Israel in the Gaza crisis.

Tehran  - The Iranian Culture Ministry on Wednesday closed down the reformist daily newspaper Kargozaran (Public Servants) over a critical report about the militant Palestinian group Hamas, the off

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Tehran  - The police on Sunday closed and sealed off the office of Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi in Tehran, sources close to Ebadi said.

Tehran (Iran), Dec 21: The restoration of the tomb of the founder of the Persian Empire, Cyrus the Great, has been completed and its metal scaffolding removed.

According to a report by the FARS News Agency, after three stages of restoration, the structure, in Iran, stands strong and will not sustain any further damage.

Hassan Rahsaz, manager of the restoration work, said that the restoration and documentation of the process has been carried out with great precision by 8 archeological experts and modern-day equipment.

The first stage of restoration began in 2000 when metal scaffolding was put around the tomb to allow experts to access every inch of the stone exterior to find, document and restore the damage to its 180 bricks and the 11 slabs of stone that make up its roof.

Tehran - Any pressure on Iran over its nuclear programme would be futile, the official ISNA news agency quoted Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying on Thursday.

"No power in the world could threaten the Iranian nation," Ahmadinejad said in a meeting with clerics during a visit to the south-western province of Khuzestan.

Western nations, led by the United States, accuse the Islamic republic of pursuing a clandestine nuclear weapons programme, a charge Iran denies.