News Archive - 18 August 2013

>* Refining capacity to fall to around 4 mln bpd in 2014* To import less crude from Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait and Qatar* Japan may import oil products during peak demandBy Florence Tan and James TophamSINGAPORE/TOKYO, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Japanese oil refiners will cut their capacity to the lowest...

A group of residents of Arak in central Iran held a gathering to protest the dangerously high levels of pollution in the city. According to a report by Arakna News Agency, Arak has been suffering from high pollution for the last 83 days. People are blaming high rate of cancer...

Former head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Fereydoun Abbasi says the Islamic Republic has a total of 18,000 centrifuges, ten thousand of which are currently running.

Iranian President Hassan Rohani held first meeting with his cabinet members in Tehran on Saturday. Rohani once again thanked the Iranian people for their vote to his government of "prudence and hope" and vowed that the government will make every effort to improve the people's lives.

Iran has 18,000 Uranium centrifuges, according to the country's outgoing nuclear chief, Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani.

Despite U.S. and European appeals for restraint, the Egyptian military slaughtered supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi, an atrocity rationalized by claims of combating Islamic “terrorism.”

Representative of the families of Lebanese pilgrims being held hostage in Syria called the arrest of three of their relatives politically motivated Sunday, as the ISF rejected reports the detained were being physically abused.

U.S. regional allies such as Saudi Arabia and Turkey are backing opposite sides in the violent power struggle in Egypt, complicating U.S. diplomacy as the most populous Arab nation is torn by conflict.

Internet scholar Ethan Zuckerman challenges us to find, become "bridge figures."        

The U.S. military is heavily dependent on Egypt to move personnel and equipment to Afghanistan and around volatile parts of the Middle East, complicating U.S. efforts to place pressure on the Egyptian military in the wake of its violent crackdown on protesters.

>BEIRUT (Reuters) - As the army ruthlessly crushes the Muslim Brotherhood on the streets of Cairo, having swept away its elected president, Egypt is being painted as the graveyard of the Arab Spring and of Islamist hopes of shaping the region's future. This week's bloody drama has sent shockwaves out...

>Security officers had confronted a "terrorist group" in the village of Dair, north of the capital Manama, when the homemade device exploded, state news agency BNA quoted an Interior Ministry statement as saying.All the officers were in a stable condition, BNA said.Majority Shi'ite Muslims have been demanding more...

Latest VideoAugust 18th, 2013     Islamic Republic invented hexagonal water melon for export ! A group of Imam Khomeini agricultural learning center have invented Hexagonal water melon for export !...

Latest VideoAugust 18th, 2013     Hojatoleslam bird registered in Guiness book of record intone incantations from Islamic holly books A bird from the zoo of province of Mazanderan which according to his owner  is recorded in Guiness book of records is able to intone incantations written in Islamic holly books.