An army parade in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz has come under attack. Journalists and children are among those shot in an assault that has reportedly left over 20 people dead and more than 50 injured. Gunmen opened fire from behind the stands during a military parade in Ahvaz on Saturday. The event was attended by members of the local elite, including the Ahvaz governor as well as high-ranking... 

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... 

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... 

Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi says Tehran will announce good news on nuclear energy in near future. “We have messages about new nuclear achievements which will be announced within the next few months,” IRNA quoted Salehi as saying on Wednesday. According to the Iranian official,... 

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday called the September 11 attacks on the United States a “big fabrication” that was used to justify the U.S. war on terrorism, the official IRNA news agency reported. Ahmadinejad, who often rails against the West and Israel, made the comment in a meeting with Intelligence Ministry personnel. It came amid escalating tension in the long-running... 

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday said that the U.S. and Israel were behind the anti-government protests on Ashura. Describing the deadly events on Ashura as a “”nauseating play,”” President Ahmadinejad said “”Americans and Zionists are the sole audience of a play they have commissioned and sold out.”” “”The... 

Iran warned Switzerland on Saturday of “consequences” over a referendum banning the building of new mosque minarets and urged Bern not to enforce the ban, the official IRNA news agency reported. The vote went “against the prestige of a country which claims to be an advocate of democracy and human rights,” Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told Swiss counterpart Micheline...