Kavoshgar 4 (Explorer 4) satellite carrier. Head of Iran Space Agency (ISA) Hamid Fazeli says the country plans to send a live monkey into space onboard the country’s domestically-made Kavoshgar 5 (Explorer 5) satellite carrier. “Kavoshgar 5, with a weight of 285 kg, will blast off into space with a living creature (a monkey) in the next Iranian calendar month (that begins on July 23),” IRNA... 

The Summit Conference Hall in the Iranian capital, Tehran. The second day of the International Conference on the Global Fight against Terrorism has kicked off in the Iranian capital, Tehran. The anti-terrorism conference, headed by Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, commenced in Tehran’s Summit Conference Hall on Saturday with a message by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah... 

US Special Forces units based at Fort Hood, Texas, have been told to prepare for deployment to Libya no later than July, according to a US military source. The Special Forces would then be followed in September or October by heavy armored units of the First Cavalry Division, currently located in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with other components of the US III Corps. This report was broadcast today... 

The Islamic Republic of Iran successfully launches its second satellite christened Rassad (Observation) into the earth’s orbit. The satellite, which is the country’s first such imaging device, was launched by the Safir-e-Rassad satellite carrier on Wednesday thanks to Iranian aerospace scientists and experts’ endeavor, IRNA reported. Despite its 15.3-kilogram weight, which puts it... 

Twitter protesters in their green "uniforms". The U.S. government funded the creation of wireless networks to facilitate secret communications for opposition groups to avoid the control of authorities in nations such as Iran, Syria and Libya. According to The New York Times, the State Department and the Pentagon spent about $50 million to also create an independent network of mobile telephones... 

SIPRI says Russia had 11,000 nuclear warheads while the United States had 8,500 as of January 2011. A Swedish think-tank reports the possession of over 20,500 nuclear weapons by eight nuclear states, including Israel, with 5,000 of them all ready for instant use. “More than 5,000 nuclear weapons are deployed and ready for use, including nearly 2,000 that are kept in a high state of alert,”... 

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro. Venezuela has severed its relations with the US after Washington imposed sanctions against Venezuela’s state-owned oil company for supplying gasoline to Iran. According to examiner.com, Venezuela officially “froze” relations with the United States on Sunday, a top diplomat from President Hugo Chavez’s government said. Venezuelan Foreign Minister... 

Iranian nuclear experts at the research centre of the uranium conversion plant in the Isfahan. The country is only a matter of months from creating a nuclear weapon. Iran is only a matter of months from being able to create a nuclear weapon, according to experts. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, 54, has long been pushing his country’s nuclear capabilities, and at the current rate of uranium enrichment... 

The former Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a new published report that he had not seen “a shred of evidence” that Iran was “building nuclear-weapons facilities and using enriched materials.” Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel Peace Prize recipient who spent 12 years at the IAEA, told investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, “I don’t believe Iran is a... 

Two defectors from Iran’s intelligence service have testified that Iranian officials knew in advance about the attacks of September 11, 2001, says a US court filing that seeks damages for Iran’s ”direct support for, and sponsorship of, the most deadly act of terrorism in American history”. One of the defectors also claimed that Iran was involved in designing the attacks, the... 

The Paraguana Peninsula is located in the north of Venezuela. There are fears there will soon be a second world missile crisis after it was reported that Iran, who are fierce enemies of Israel, are due to build a mid-range rocket base in Venezuela. According to German paper Die Welt Iran have bought launch pads on the Paraguana Peninsula, and the Middle East country’s engineers visited the site... 

The Bushehr nuclear power plant, located in southern Iran. According to Russia, the first reactor at Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant has gone into operation, as reported by AP. A spokesperson for the Atomstroyexport company, the Russian contractor of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, says the activities at the plant is progressing well and on schedule. Olga Tysleva told IRNA on Friday... 

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak Israeli officials have criticized ex-Mossad chief Meir Dagan for calling a possible attack on Iran “a stupid idea,” saying he should not share his personal views with others. In his first public appearance since leaving office in early January, Dagan publicly argued against an airstrike against Iran’s nuclear facilities. Addressing the Hebrew University... 

Iran's Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi. Iran’s intelligence minister says the country has reliable information that former head of the al-Qaeda terrorist group Osama bin Laden died of disease some time ago. “We have accurate information that bin Laden died of illness some time ago,” Heidar Moslehi told reporters on the sidelines of a Cabinet meeting on Sunday. He questioned Washington’s... 

Not long ago, Iranian authorities have banned all advertisements for pets, pet food and other pet products but now it seems that they want to take it even further, as far as bannings dogs from society. Dogs are “unclean” and should be banned from society. That is what 39 Iranian legislators have proposed to the country’s 290-member parliament, known as the Majlis. Iran’s official Islamic Republic...