Iran’s announcement that it is to start enriching uranium to close to 20 per cent, under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency, to produce radioisotopes for its medical reactor in Tehran has triggered a fresh outbreak of hysteria. There have been renewed calls for sanctions to force it to close down its nuclear programme.

But the more Iran is threatened, the more defiant it be ...

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IRI President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad condemned on Sunday the recent terrorist attacks in Pakistan and stressed that Pakistani nation and government should be aware of US plots.

Speaking at the cabinet session, President Ahmadinejad reaffirmed that the Islamic Republic of Iran has called for the region's security and tranquility.

Referring to the US plans to intensify the clashes in Afghanistan and Pakistan, he added there is no doubt that Americans are responsible for the brutal explosions in Pakistan.
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Berlin, Jan 5, IRNA -- German Defense Minister Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg is to summon the head of the German Protestant church Margot Kaessmann in the wake of her comments against the German military mission in Afghanistan, the daily Leipziger Volkszeitung said Tuesday.
Guttenberg urged Kaessmann to clarify her viewpoints on the German military mission in the war-stricken country when they meet on Monday.
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Iranian authorities are holding several family members of Osama bin Laden, according to Abdul Rahman bin Laden, the... ...