Iran may move its nuclear facilities to safer locations if it becomes necessary, reflecting Iran’s worries of a possible strike against the sites.
Iran’s summer fashion offensive has become more ominous — no mullets or "un-Islamic" jewelry for men and women aren’t allowed to show any leg.
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/ 7 December 2009
Government opponents shouted ”Allahu Akbar” and ”Death to the Dictator” from Tehran’s rooftops in the pouring rain on the eve of demonstrations.
A jailed American journalist charged by Iran with espionage stood trial behind closed doors, Iran’s judiciary spokesperson said on Tuesday.
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/ 7 November 2007
Iran has achieved a landmark in its controversial uranium-enrichment programme, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday, suggesting that the country now has 3 000 centrifuges fully operating. ”We have now reached 3 000 machines,” Ahmadinejad told thousands of Iranians gathered in Birjand, eastern Iran.
Iran announced a dramatic expansion of uranium enrichment on Monday, saying it has begun operating 3 000 centrifuges — nearly 10 times the previously known number — in defiance of United Nations demands it halt the programme or face increased sanctions. Experts say 3 000 centrifuges are in theory enough to produce a nuclear weapon.
Iran on Saturday insisted that 15 British sailors it seized had illegally entered Iranian waters, denouncing what it called a ”blatant aggression”. The Britons were being taken to the capital for questioning, Iranian media reported. Iran’s tough comments came after Britain demanded the return of the sailors and denied they had strayed into Iranian waters.
Three strong earthquakes followed by several aftershocks have jolted western Iran, killing at least 66 people and injuring at least 988, state media reported on Friday. The epicentre was in the mountainous villages south of Boroujerd and north of Doroud in western Iran.
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/ 24 January 2006
Bombs killed six people and wounded several others in the south-western city of Ahvaz on Tuesday, Iranian state television reported. Fire engines and ambulances rushed to the site of the explosions, a state environmental agency building and a bank in Ahvaz, the capital of oil-rich Khuzestan province.
A defiant Iran resumed full operations at its uranium conversion plant as Europe and the United States struggled to find a way to stop the Islamic republic from pushing ahead with a nuclear programme they fear will lead to weapons of mass destruction.