News Archive - 8 December 2013

>The increased transparency is the result of a thaw in relations between Iran and the West that culminated in a deal struck last month under which Tehran is to curb its nuclear program in return for some easing of sanctions.It was the first time in more than two years...

>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday urged the United States and other world powers to demand that Iran change what he called its "genocidal" anti-Israel policy as part of negotiations with Tehran on a final nuclear deal. Cautioning the international community to "beware" of Iran's intentions,...

Latest VideoDecember 8th, 2013     Iranian TV director praise sport 90 , for sencor of World Cup draw according to Islam ! Iranian TV director and former hostage taker of American embassy  , Ezatollah Zarghami praised producers of popular sport program 90 for simultaneous censoring the Brazilian beauty Fernando Lima ,...

>KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai agreed on a cooperation pact with Iran on Sunday, an Afghan official said, while continuing to resist signing a long-term security agreement with the United States. Karzai struck the deal with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran in a move that will be...

>(Reuters) - When Mohammad Hamedi Rad arrived in the United States last year, he carried his Iranian passport, a hard-won student visa and a backpack containing $14,000 in hundred dollar bills, because there was no simpler way of getting money into the country. "It was scary," Hamedi Rad, a chemical...

>DUBAI Dec 9 (Reuters) - Here are some factors that may affect Middle East stock markets on Monday. Reuters has not verified the press reports and does not vouch for their accuracy.INTERNATIONAL/REGIONAL* GLOBAL MARKETS-Asian shares advance on China trade, falling yen* Gold clouded by US stimulus doubts; short-covering cushions...

>* Hamas looks for solutions, domestic criticism mutedBy Nidal al-MughrabiGAZA, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Mohammed Al-Telbani, owner of one of Gaza's biggest food factories, is the sort of businessman plucky enough to thrive despite an Israeli blockade of the Palestinian coastal enclave, but even he says he is finally running...

Ibrahim Ramazani and his family are just eight of about 250,000 refugees coming to the United States yearly.

EFE Ambrose may be the first visiting defender ever to look forward to a decent snooze around a game against Barcelona at Camp Nou.

KABUL, Afghanistan - Amid highly public tensions with the United States over a long-term security deal, Afghanistan's president looked to forge closer ties with neighboring Iran, agreeing in principle to start negotiating an economic and security "pact of friendship," Afghan officials said.

Vienna (AFP) - Technical experts from Iran, world powers and the UN atomic watchdog were due to start working out on Monday the nuts and bolts of implementing last month's landmark nuclear deal.

WASHINGTON, Dec 8: US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel will visit Pakistan on Monday for “candid and productive conversations” with Pakistani leaders, the Pentagon announced on Sunday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that any agreement with Iran to halt the Islamic republic's nuclear program must also include a change in its "genocidal policy," and that economic sanctions on the country must continue to the extent that they can. Mr. Netanyahu spoke a day after President ...

US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel. — File photo KABUL: Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel heads to Pakistan on Monday for talks as Washington seeks to defuse tensions over controversial US drone strikes and Islamabad's role in Afghanistan.

Latest VideoDecember 9th, 2013     In memory of lieutenant General Nader Jahanbani Nader Jahanbani who was executed in 1979 by Islamic Republic  , was a brave and first class pilot and sportsman who is still remembered as an hero by the old Iranian generation  . This video is dedicated to that...

Kandahar, Afghanistan (AFP) Dec 08, 2013 US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told American troops on Sunday that he supports a NATO force in Afghanistan after 2014, as Washington and President Hamid Karzai wrangle over a stalled security pact. Hagel travelled to bases in south Afghanistan to meet troops a day...

Tehran, Iran (FNA) Dec 09, 2013 An Iranian aerospace official says the country plans to launch two indigenously designed and manufactured satellites into orbit by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2014). Deputy head of Iran Space Agency (ISA), Hamid Fazeli, said on Wednesday that Sharif...

The Federal Government has said that the agricultural sector now gets four per cent of the total loan portfolio available in the Nigerian banks. The Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, who said this while briefing journalists on the progress that the government had made in the agricultural sector, noted...

The Director General of National Sports Commission Gbenga Elegbeleye has warned the Super Eagles not to treat their Group F World Cup opponents Iran, Bosnia Herzegovina and Argentina with kid gloves. The administrator said at the weekend that in as much as he was happy with the draws which he...

In his disproportionate praise of the six-month agreement with Iran, Barack Obama said: “For the first time in nearly a decade, we have halted the progress of the Iranian nuclear...

TO be the best, you have to beat the best.” That was Efe Ambrose’s reaction to the World Cup draw which will see him and his Nigeria team-mates face Lionel Messi and Argentina in next year’s tournament in Brazil. The other teams in Group F are Bosnia-Herzegovina and Iran,...

Argentina coach Alejandro Sabella has admitted he knows nothing about the Super Eagles after the FIFA World Cup draw puts his team in Group F alongside Nigeria, Iran and Boznia-Herzegovina. It is the fourth time the African champions would be grouped together with the South Americans at this level and...

Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel heads to Pakistan on Monday for talks as Washington seeks to defuse tensions over controversial US drone strikes and Islamabad's role in Afghanistan.        

Obama administration's stance on Iran and Syria could see US lose influence in the Middle East, Bahrain's rulers warn        

As the Lebanese presidential elections draw near, talks have intensified in public and secret meetings to prevent a vacuum.

After President Barack Obama said he would accept a peaceful nuclear program from Iran, including modest uranium enrichment, U.S. congressmen on the Homeland Security and Intelligence committees agreed Sunday that the concession complicates further n...

JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that any agreement to emerge from newly restarted talks with the Palestinians will likely initially result in a "cold peace," and therefore Israel must insist on "iron-clad...

The United States has halted shipment of retrograde cargo from Afghanistan through Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; a decision the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf claims its 'tactical success'.

Celtic defender still on a high after celebrating a new daughter, Nigeria's World Cup draw and a goal against Motherwell.        

Latest VideoDecember 8th, 2013     Interviewed by Israeli Haim Saban , Barack Obama defend US nuclear deal with Iran Barack Obama was interviewed by the director of Saban center , the Amrican – Israeli billionaire Haim Saban on Saturday December 8 , in which the US president  defends the nuclear...

For the past one year the strategy of Bashar Assad’s regime pivoted on the notion of crushing the uprising through the use of force by strengthening the latter’s capabilities by importing arms and forces from Iran, Iraq and Hezbollah.

The debate over the nuclear deal with Iran may obscure an intriguing new reality: Iran approaching a “Gorbachev Moment.” Of course, the skeptics may be right. It could all be a ruse, with Iran pocketing the benefits and biding its time.

KUWAIT (Reuters) - The head of the Syrian National Coalition opposition group said on Sunday a thaw in relations between Washington and Tehran could strengthen President Bashar al-Assad's hand in Syria's civil war.        

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday that his country opposes the presence of foreign forces in Afghanistan and the region, saying their presence generates tension, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Washington (AFP) Dec 08, 2013 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that a "military option" was "necessary" for the success of negotiations aimed at reining in Iran's disputed nuclear program. Netanyahu said the Jewish state shared US President Barack Obama's "preference" to pursue diplomacy "but for diplomacy to succeed,...

President Barack Obama’s trip to South Africa to attend a memorial service for former president Nelson Mandela comes as Congress works to wrap up pressing end-of-year business. Obama will be overseas while lawmakers race to meet a budget deadline and ponder a possible tightening of economic sanctions against Iran. The...

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Sunday offered troops a rare glimmer of hope on the department's financial woes, saying a possible budget agreement back home could ease the automatic spending cuts that have hit the military hard.

NEW DELHI — India’s ruling Congress party took a drubbing Sunday when it was defeated in four state elections, a morale boost for the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party in advance of national elections expected by May.

Our Homeland season 3, episode 11 recap looks back at the high-stakes mission that took place in Sunday’s storyline. General Akbari Last week’s episode concluded with Brody crossing into Iran and meeting with Javadi. Now, Carrie has arrived in Iran … Continue reading → The post ‘Homeland’ season 3, episode...

South Africans have crowded into churches, mosques, temples and synagogues to remember Nelson Mandela.

Washington, Dec. 8 : President Barack Obama has said diplomacy is the best way to solve Iran's nuclear programme as striking a nuke agreement has only partial chances of success.

KIEV, Ukraine — Protesters toppled a monument to Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin on Sunday during the biggest march and rally in central Kiev since President Viktor Yanukovich galvanized his opposition by turning down a trade deal with the European Union.

Iran Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani has stressed the importance of close consultation between Iranian and Chinese political and parliamentary officials on regional and international issues.

While euphoria over the Iran deal has waned sharply, the current account deficit has gone into remission due to a collapse in gold demand

JERUSALEM: Israeli President Shimon Peres said Sunday he would be prepared to meet his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani, even though their two countries consider each other arch-enemies.

With Israel branding itself as a model of environmental sustainability, many overlook the Zionist lobby’s support for extreme fossil fuel extraction in North America, from fracking to offshore drilling.

At least nine explosions tore through predominantly Shiite Muslim areas in and around Baghdad Sunday, hitting crowded market places, commercial districts and car repair shops in a string of bombings that killed at least 33...

Chuck Hagel, US defense secretary, has opened the door to more weapons sales to the Gulf states. The Financial Times reports.

The funeral service of Nelson Mandela could be a "trap" for Iranian President Hassan Rouhani because he could run into US President Barack Obama, a hardline Iranian daily warned Sunday. The Islamic republic has yet to announce who will travel to South Africa for Tuesday's memorial service and next Sunday's...

Fresh from shackling the traditional blocking ability of the Senate's minority party, Democrats are ready to muscle through President Barack Obama's nominees for pivotal judgeships and other top jobs.

The mostly Muslim ex-rebels who control Central African Republic are patrolling neighborhoods across the capital, despite an order to return to their barracks.

>DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani presented his first budget to parliament on Sunday, vowing to bring down inflation and boost growth to lift an economy reeling from sanctions and what he says was mismanagement by predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Inflation has soared for two years and productivity has slumped...

Latest VideoDecember 8th, 2013     Students boo Kayhan editor Hossein Shariatmadari in Sharif University on 16 Azar The notorious  figure of Islamic Republic Hossein Shariatmadari  , editor in chief of newspaper Kayhan which is published under Ayatollah Khamenei supervision ,  and accused of being  responsible for torture and killings  of...