Iran\’s state news agency IRNA said on Tuesday the country\’s nuclear facilities would remain operational under a deal reached between Tehran and six major powers.
Iran on Tuesday rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\’s speech to the U.S. Congress on Tehran\’s nuclear program as \”boring and repetitive, the state news agency IRNA said.
Iran has told the United States that an Israeli air strike which killed an Iranian general in Syria last week had crossed \”red lines\” and the Islamic Republic will respond, a senior official was quoted as saying by IRNA news agency on Tuesday.
An Iranian defense industry body said two workers were killed in a fire at an explosives factory in an eastern district of Tehran, the official IRNA news agency reported on Monday.
Iran said on Monday it had launched a live monkey into space, seeking to show off missile systems that have alarmed the West because the technology could potentially be used to deliver a nuclear warhead.
Two Iranian warships docked in Sudan on Monday, Iran\’s official IRNA news agency reported, less than a week after Khartoum accused Israel of attacking an arms factory in the Sudanese capital.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad now wants to attend the 2012 London Olympics, despite last year saying that the summer games\’ jagged multi-colored lingo resembled the word Zion and was therefore \”racist.\”
Iranian politicians said on Tuesday they expected the European Union to backtrack on its oil embargo and repeated a threat to close the vital Strait of Hormuz shipping lane if the West succeeds in preventing Tehran from exporting crude.
Iran will close the Strait of Hormuz if its oil exports are subjected to foreign sanctions, the Islamic Republic\’s official news agency reported.
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