National Deputy Elisa Carrio spoke to a Buenos Aires radio station on Luis D’Elia and his trip to Tehran to meet with Mohsen Rabbani, one of the main suspects on the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that left 85 people dead.

Iran plans to build power plants in Ecuador, first vice president Mohammad Reza Rahimi was reported as saying.

Iran violated transparency rules by failing to alert U.N. inspectors in time to escalated nuclear activity and faces harsher sanctions because of provocative and defiant behaviour, the European Union said on Wednesday.

Iran’s air force will soon test a new version of a 2000-pound guided-bomb.

The UN’s nuclear watchdog has expressed concern that Iran may currently be trying to develop a nuclear warhead for a missile.

Russia has joined America and France in open rejection of Iran’s nuclear programme as China came under pressure not to block a move to tighten UN sanctions on the Islamic Republic.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claimed Iran was heading towards a military dictatorship and warned it poses an international threat.

The World Press Photo Award 2009 was for the Italian photographer, Pietro Masturzo, who is the author of an image that has caught the demonstrations against the Iranian president’s reelection. (SEE IMAGES)

Thursday 11 February marks the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution, the day which brought Ayatollah Khomeini and clerical rule to power. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

Iran has announced it will expand its nuclear programme, in a move that fuels tension with the West. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

Rocket launch carrying mouse, two turtles and worms shows country can soon begin manned-space travel, says Ahmadinejad. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

Angela Merkel, German chancellor, met in the city of Berlin with the Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu in the frame of the first visit by an Israeli head of government to the city that was the capital of Nazism.

Police officers in Iran opened fire into crowds of protesters on Sunday, killing at least 15 people, witnesses and opposition Web sites said.

Iranian state television reported that “The regime of the ayatollahs has launched a new missile capable of hitting Israel or U.S. bases in the Persian Gulf.” The test, according to the same source, was a ’success’.

The national students’ day celebrated in Iran on 7 December, is an annual event to commemorate the death of three students in Tehran in 1953. Suppressive forces were stationed in force inside universities and various places across the country. They tried to prevent a nationwide upheaval in any way possible.

Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, spoke in Berlin today about his recent bilateral meeting with Iranian Prime Minister Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sayi that “all conversations are more effective and cheaper than using pressure and war.”

In the city of El Alto, Bolivia, there is a controversy over the hospital funded by the Irani government, since women who were recruited were photographed wearing a headscarf.

Some two million Muslims headed to Muzdalifa on Thursday after spending the day at the plain of Arafat to prepare to cast stones at the devil in the most dangerous part of the annual hajj pilgrimage.

Luis Inacio Lula da Silva plans to sign a deal with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad involving the entry (in Brazil and therefore to Latin America) of Iranian citizens without visa requirements.

U.S. President Obama delivered a stern message on Thursday to North Korea and Iran that they risk further sanctions and isolation if they do not rein in their nuclear ambitions. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)