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Read detail news Britain has joined the United States and France in sending a flotilla of warships through the sensitive Strait of Hormuz in a pointed message to the Iranian regime. The Ministry of Defence confirmed that a Royal Navy Type 23 frigate, HMS Argyll, was part of the US-led carrier group to pass through the waterway, as tensions continued to escalate over Tehran’s nuclear [...]

Read detail news Enlarge Image EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton speak with journalists prior to a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the EU Council building in Brussels on Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. EU foreign ministers are expected on Monday to agree to new economic sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo) BRUSSELS – [...]

Read detail news WASHINGTON—Amid heightened tensions with Iran, an American aircraft carrier has sailed through the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian Gulf. The Navy says it’s a routine maneuver. Cmdr. Amy Derrick-Frost said the USS Abraham Lincoln entered the Gulf on Sunday without incident to conduct scheduled maritime security operations. Derrick-Frost is a spokeswoman for the Navy’s [...]

Read detail news Indian Muslims want the Jaipur Literary Festival to withdraw an invitation to Salman Rushdie, a writer who has angered many fellow Muslims. The vice chancellor of Darul Uloom seminary in Deoband, India, said many Muslims have been “hurt” by Rushdie’s novel, “The Satanic Verses,” The Daily Telegraph of London reported. Rushdie spent several [...]

Read detail news Iran Seizes Barbie Dolls and Bans Topless Actress [PHOTO/VIDEO]; Iran Fight Against Western Culture. Iran is enforcing a ban on Barbie dolls, shutting down dozens of toy shops in Iran as part of a rule made in 1996 by religious leaders and Actress Golshifteh Farahani admits that the government of Iran has banned her homecoming due to her decision to pose nude in France’s [...]

Read detail news War Architects Have Written a New Script- This Time with Azerbaijan in the Lead Actor Role The imperial establishment’s desperation to militarily go after and take over the last ‘real’ domino – Iran, has truly reached a peak, and with that desperation comes a new farfetched and fantastical scenario. Last time the script of their scenario was written based on a [...]

Read detail news KABUL — More Afghans fled the country and sought asylum abroad in 2011 than in any other year since the start of the decade-long war, suggesting that many are looking for their own exit strategy as international troops prepare to withdraw. From January to November, more than 30,000 Afghans applied for political asylum worldwide, a 25 percent increase over the same period [...]

Read detail news TEHRAN, Iran—Seventeen people have died after a storm capsized a passenger boat off of Iran’s southern coast, the official IRNA news agency reported on Sunday. The boat sank Saturday evening while sailing between Hormuz Island and the port city of Bandar Abbas on the mainland, the report said. Rescue teams saved five passengers. The report says the boat began [...]

Read detail news TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s national currency fell by 11 per cent Saturday amid the government’s refusal to sign off on a move to raise bank interest rates, state news agencies reported. The semiofficial Fars news agency said the the country’s currency, the rial, was trading at nearly 20,000 to the U.S. dollar on Saturday on the black market, compared to [...]

Read detail news NASSER KARIMI Associated Press= TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A semiofficial Iranian news agency is quoting a senior military officer as saying that Tehran is preparing to “punish” whoever orchestrated the assassination of a nuclear scientist. Iran has blamed the U.S., Israel, and to a lesser extent Britain for the Wednesday killing of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan. Spokesman [...]