Feb
28

Iran News – Ahmadinejad says Iran ready to help Iraq develop (Deepika)

Ahmadinejad says Iran ready to help Iraq develop (Deepika)
TEHRAN, Feb 27 (Reuters) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today the Islamic state wanted to help neighbouring Iraq to accelerate its development, state television reported.

Iranian leader: U.S. should speed up pullout – Navy News, opinions, editorials, news from Iraq, photos, reports – Navy … (Navy Times)
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s supreme leader told the visiting Iraqi president Saturday that the U.S. should withdraw from Iraq more quickly than planned because any delay is harmful to the country.

Iran wants apology from H’wood team (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
TEHRAN, Iran – The art advisor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged a visiting Hollywood delegation to apologize for “insults and slanders” about Iranians in films, the ISNA news agency reported on Saturday.

Iran warns Iraq over prolonged presence of US forces (EARTHtimes.org)
Tehran – Iran’s supreme leader on Saturday warned Iraq over the prolonged presence of US forces in that country, the Iranian media reported. The occupiers are preparing grounds for a long and enduring presence in Iraq and this is a big danger of whi…

‘Iran can launch n-power plant without Russian help’ (Central Chronicle)
Agencies Tehran, Feb 28: Iran would be able to put its Bushehr nuclear power plant into operation on its own if Russia refused to do so, a former Iranian president said.

Iran-Syria relations ‘growing and exemplary’: VP (mehrnews.com)
TEHRAN, Feb. 28 (MNA) – Iranian First Vice President Parviz Davoudi stated in a meeting with Syrian Prime Minister Muhammad Naji Al-Utri in Tehran on Saturday that Iran-Syria relations are growing and exemplary.

Iran and Iraq get closer (Sunday Observer)
The Presidents of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Iraq, Jalal Talaban, advocated for the improvement of their bilateral relations Friday, in a clear rupture with a past that faced them each other for almost 10 years.

Mending U.S.-Iran relations could be Obama’s key task, scholar says (Kitchener – Waterloo Record)
WATERLOO (Feb 28, 2009) — Barack Obama brings hope of nurturing a new U.S. relationship with Iran after decades of hostility, says a prominent Iranian-Canadian academic and author.

Iran can run Bushehr nuclear plant without Russian help: Rafsanjani – Tehran Times
“Russia and other countries should be aware that even if they do not come, we ourselves can complete the Bushehr nuclear plant,” he said. In the test run of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, which began on Wednesday, non-nuclear fuel was used …