May 23 2013 - 17:27
Iran's constitutional watchdog on Tuesday banned former president and opposition-backed Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani from running in next month’s elections, a move expected to undermine the credibility of the poll. The Guardian Council, which vets all potential candidates for loyalty to the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the regime, also banned Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaei, an ally of President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, from participating in the poll, the Financial Times reported.
May 23 2013 - 10:49
Azerbaijan has no problems in relations with Russia, Azerbaijani Foreign minister Elmar Mammadyarov says. The two states have 182 bilateral documents signed and 39 planned for signing.
May 23 2013 - 08:04
Spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry Abbas Arakchi denied connections with the 10 spies detained in Saudi Arabia and suspected of working for Iran, News Azerbaijan reports.
May 22 2013 - 15:33
Bahrain has detected an Iranian drone in its air space, the kingdom's interior minister Sheikh Rashid bin Abdullah bin Ahmed Al Khalifa says on Wednesday.
May 22 2013 - 07:52
US senators Mark Kirk and John Cornyn have presented sanctions to ban purchases of any goods and services of Iranian governmental companies, ITAR-TASS reports.The initiatives will also hit companies cooperating with the governmental ones.
May 21 2013 - 19:14
8 people will take part in the Iranian presidential elections scheduled for June 14th. The ballot will not include former president Hashemi Rafsanjani, who is known as one of the major opponents of incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
May 21 2013 - 09:07
Spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry Abbas Aragchi told Azerbaijan today that Khalida Khalid, a scientist of the Azerbaijani Academy of Sciences, and her assistant Shamkhal Guseynov will be released in the near future. Iran will inform Azerbaijan about the reasons for detaining the two.
May 20 2013 - 13:23
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said on Facebook that Vanuatu no longer recognized independence of Abkhazia. Only five countries recognize its independence.Saakashvili noted that the main goal of Georgia in countries of the Pacific Ocean and Africa was to block Russian policy of getting more countries recognize independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.The Georgian president is in Thailand where he met the prime ministers of Bangladesh and Laos, vice presidents of Burma, Papua New Guinea and Iran.
