Iran

Iran distances itself from Sadat film

Tehran - Iran on Wednesday distanced itself from a documentary film on the assassination of the late Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, saying the film had nothing to do with the Iranian government, the official news agency IRNA reported.

Iran's state television network aired a documentary film called Assassination of the Pharaoh, which glorified Sadat's assassin Khaled al-Islamboli and portrayed him as a martyr who killed a traitor.

"The producers of the film were from the non-governmental and private sector, and the film was in line with freedom of expression in Iran, but the contents of the film have nothing to do with the official stance of Tehran," an unnamed official from the Foreign Ministry told IRNA.

G8 backs negotiating path over Iran nuclear programme

Toyako, Japan - The Group of Eight (G8) leading industrial countries called Wednesday on Iran to suspend its nuclear programme, but again vowed to try and resolve the issue through negotiation.

US targets Iranian officials with more sanctions

Iran - US CrisisWashington - The United States enacted more sanctions Tue

Iran president dismisses possibility of war with US, Israel

Kuala Lumpur - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that the United States and Israel would not go to war with his country despite increasing tensions surrounding Teheran's refusal to suspend its nuclear enrichment programme.

Ahmadinejad said he was confident the US and Israel would not launch a war on Iran, adding that the two nations were instead using "propaganda" as a weapon.

"I assure you that there won't be any war in the future," he told reporters in Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur where he was attending a summit of developing Muslim nations.

Ahmadinejad: Iran not to accept nuclear suspension

Tehran- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reiterated once again that Iran would not accept nuclear suspension and termed the latest demand by world powers in this regard as a "repetitive scenar

Western intelligence claims Iran has resumed working on an atomic bomb

London, July 7 : Intelligence reports provided by Western diplomats reveal that Iran has probably resumed work on constructing atomic weapons.

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