Zahra Hosseinian | Reuters ARABNEWS Sunday 12 August 2012 DUBAI: Two powerful earthquakes killed 220 people and injured around 1,500 in northwest Iran where rescue workers frantically combed the rubble of dozens of villages throughout the night and into Sunday as medical staff desperately tried to save lives. Thousands huddled […]
RT: Two strong quakes have shaken Iran’s northwest, leaving 180 people dead and more than 1,300 injured, Iranian officials say. The quakes have also disrupted communications, complicating rescue efforts. The quakes, measuring 6.4 and 6.3 on the Richter scale, struck near the towns of Tabriz and Ahar in the East […]
By Dave Clark (AFP) – WASHINGTON — The United States warned Friday that Syria’s allies Iran and Hezbollah could be planning attacks in Europe, as Washington boosted sanctions against the […]
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page In the month of Ramadan Muslims around the world struggle to deal with the Miraj – the accession to heaven by the Holy Prophet of Islam that to us Ahmadi Muslim is pretty clear was […]
By Richard Javad Heydarian Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest writers to have their say. Please click here if you are interested in contributing. As hopes for a speedy resolution of the Iranian nuclear crisis fade, potentially postponed until the conclusion of upcoming American presidential […]
Credit: Asia Times. As hopes for a speedy resolution of the Iranian nuclear crisis fade, potentially postponed until the conclusion of upcoming American presidential elections, pundits and policy-makers are scratching their heads in search of a culprit. More:
RT: Tehran plans to remove its key ministries and state bodies from the Internet next month, calling the worldwide web “untrustworthy.” The action is the first phase in a planned Iranian project to replace the Internet with a domestic intranet. The country’s key ministries will be unplugged from the global […]
Credit: Asia Times. Where’s the great Christopher Walken when we need him? “I’ve got a fever! [1] And the only prescription is … Bomb Iran!” That’s the story, at least in Israel. Fever pitch will rule at least for the next six months. This past weekend, the Israel Hayom newspaper […]
Russian TV: Reports are surfacing of a US-Israeli plan to attack Iran’s ballistic missile batteries, giving Israel extra space to tackle Syria and Hezbollah. While no talks have been confirmed, […]
Iranian experts have completed the feasibility studies of Iran’s national plan to build 150-passenger airplanes and the project has entered the designing and manufacturing phase, an Iranian official says. In […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Sunday 5 August 2012 Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah yesterday sent an invitation to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to attend the emergency Islamic summit […]
Source: Bangkok Post Forty-eight Iranian pilgrims were kidnapped from a bus in the Syrian capital on Saturday, their embassy’s consular chief in Damascus told Iran’s state television. “Armed terrorist groups […]
Note by the editor: This is my headline. See last paragraph of the article. Mango Mania By HUMA YUSUF KARACHI — Summers in the city — and across much of […]
Credit: Asia Times. t took Reuters quite a while to be allowed to report that US President Barack Obama had approved an intelligence finding [1] letting the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) loose in its support for the weaponized “rebels” fighting for regime change in Syria. By now even fishermen in […]
Credit: Asia Times Sacrificing the queen So the question to be asked of the EU could be whether they are prepared to join a Eurasian framework for political and economic co-operation largely based upon energy and trade, or would prefer to cling to a failing and dysfunctional deficit-based economic framework […]
Pakistan’s New Spy Chief Visits Washington at a Time of Frayed Relations By DECLAN WALSH and MARK MAZZETTI Published: July 31, 2012 S ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — As befits any newly installed spymaster, a vague air of mystery surrounds Lt. Gen. Zahir ul-Islam, the head of Pakistan’s powerful Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, who is visiting Washington in […]
When Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip fatally shot the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, archduke Franz Ferdinand, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914, the assassination is seen as the event that […]
RT: Israeli officials are denying reports that the White House has provided them with a contingency plan in case of a showdown with Iran. Nevertheless, the head of America’s Defense Department is gearing up for a week of talks in the Middle East. US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is overseas […]
Tel Aviv denies briefing from Washington but Romney stresses Tehran’s nuclear programme threat By Layelle Saad, GCC GULF NEWS Dubai: A top US security official has briefed Israel on plans for a possible attack on Iran, according to a report published in the Haaretz daily. According to the Israeli newspaper, […]
A political analyst says the US, the UK, Israel and NATO are stoking up violence in Syria to justify direct military involvement there and an eventual aggression against the Islamic Republic, Press TV reports. “The stage is being set [in Syria] for another version of what happened in Libya with […]