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Iran has built up its naval forces in the Gulf and prepared boats that could be used in suicide attacks, but the U.S. Navy can prevent it from blocking the Strait of Hormuz, the commander of U.S. naval forces in the region said on Sunday.

Iran has built up its naval forces in the Gulf and prepared boats that could be used in suicide attacks, but the can prevent it from blocking the Strait of Hormuz, the commander of U.S. naval forces in the region said Sunday.

U.S. lawmakers have approved a Pentagon request for more than $81 million in funding to make improvements to a massive bomb designed to penetrate deeply-buried enemy facilities.

Nuclear fallout can happen a number of ways: 1) Iranians can threaten Europe and Middle Eastern targets when and if they produce weapons for their already able delivery systems; 2) Israel and the US can attack nuclear development sites in Iran and create waste akin to Japan's earthquake tsunami disaster or worse; 3) Europeans and other allies can ... (more)

Visiting Hamas prime minister from Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, gestures as he delivers his speech in front of portraits of late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, left, and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at a rally in Tehran, on Saturday, Feb.

Azerbaijan, a small Eurasian country which shares a border with Iran, is teeming with Mossad agents working to collect intelligence on the happenings within the Islamic Republic, . "Our presence here is quiet, but substantial.

Dec. 8, 2011: A photo by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards purportedly shows a U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel drone that Tehran says its forces downed earlier in the week, as the chief of the aerospace division of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Gen.

TEHRAN, Iran -; An Iranian news agency reports that more than 30 million people in the country have lost access to foreign email services such as Gmail, Yahoo mail and Hotmail.

Photo shows Minister of Energy at the Prime Minister's Office, Pehin Datu Singamanteri Colonel Dato Seri Setia Hj Mohammad Yasmin bin Hj Umar, and Iranian Ambassador Mohammad Reza cutting a cake during a reception to mark the National Day of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

In another display of infighting in the Islamic Republic's political arena, Parliamentary Speaker Ali Larijani has rejected recent statements accusing him of having vested interests in Qom that would disqualify him from running for a seat in the next Parliament.

Iranian lawmakers this week expressed support for a measure that would beat the European Union to the punch by cutting off oil exports before the summer.

Brunei Darussalam and the Islamic Republic of Iran are in the process of finalising several Memoranda of Understandings in cultural, educational and sports cooperation and Iran is quite ready to cooperate with Brunei in the oil and gas sector, as well as new and renewable energy.

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said the Islamic Republic would soon announce "very important" achievements in the nuclear field.

Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb. 11 / Trend S.Isayev, T. Jafarov/

Iranian nation in the past 33 years have had achievements that today can be presented to the humanity and the world, country's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said live, addressing the people at the rally on Tehran's Azadi Square, Press TV reported.

Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb.10 / Trend T.Jafarov /

Thirty-three years after the Islamic revolution Iran achieved outstanding results, Iranian ambassador to Azerbaijan Mohammed Baqir Bahrami said in an interview with Trend on the eve of the 33rd anniversary of the Iranian Islamic revolution.

Iran's First Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi said that his country is a supporter of the Palestinian nation and it will do its best to support the oppressed people of Palestine, IRNA reported.

Senators Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., introduced a resolution Friday calling for the departure of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and calling on the Obama administration to start providing "substantial material and technical support" to the Syrian opposition.

In February 2003, less than a month before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Gen. Eric Shinseki told a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee that "Something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers" would be required to occupy Iraq in order to stabilize it in the wake of an invasion.

Amnesty International Urges Iran to Respect Peaceful Protests on One Year Anniversary February 14 of Demonstrations in Support of Egypt and Tunisia Uprisings NEW YORK - February 10 - Amnesty International is calling on the Iranian authorities to respect freedom of assembly and allow peaceful protests on February 14 amid fears that authorities may ... (more)

An earthquake measuring 3.5 on Richter scale took place near the Kian Shahr city in the Iranian Kerman province today, IRNA news agency reported.