Iran warned India on Monday that it would stop exporting oil to India from August 1 if a financial dispute over payment was not resolved, the semi-official ‘Fars’ news agency reported.

"Iran might st

Iran on Tuesday successfully test fired 14 missiles during the second phase of a war game.

The test took place at the Great Prophet 6 War Game, IRNA reported.

These included nine Zelzal missiles, tw

The hardline Iranian parliament has slammed the latest fashion of keeping pet dogs by drafting a bill to criminalise the owning of dogs in private apartments or owners being found with them in public

Iranian lawmakers on Wednesday denounced President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad being a caretaker of the oil ministry and sent the report of this "violation" of the constitution to the judiciary, state television website reported.

Iran hopes to resolve a payments impasse with India over oil sales worth about $12 billion a year by Tuesday, the country's envoy to India, Seyed Mahdi Nabizadeh, said on Monday.

A delegation from Ir

Germany summoned the Iranian ambassador on Tuesday after his country briefly closed its airspace to chancellor Angela Merkel's plane, foreign minister Guido Westerwelle said.

Iran on Tuesday blamed a ‘technical problem’ after its airspace was briefly closed to German Chancellor Angela Merkel's plane as she flew to India, delaying her arrival and sparking a diplomatic row.

The lawyer of detained US hikers in Iran told AFP on Thursday that he has sought judiciary permission to meet his clients after their family raised concerns the two men could be on a hunger strike.

Iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi on Saturday called on Egypt to take a "courageous step" towards renewing diplomatic ties with Tehran, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Iran on Thursday hanged four men convicted of murder and rape, Fars news agency reported, saying the executions were carried out in public in the Southern port city of Bandar Abbas.