On February 14th, 2002 after a popular radio station in Los Angeles, Radio Sedaye Iran, briefly mentioned our site , we had an enormous amount of hits simultaneously downloading numerous files from our site. This caused an excessive resource consumption which caused an extreme spike in the server load. ... more

Tehran -A hardline Iranian cleric yesterday called for the deaths of the Israeli Prime Minister, Mr Ariel Sharon, and President Bush. 'If it be through the death of Sharon or the death of Bush, please brighten-up our hearts, O Lord,' Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati told worshippers in a sermon broadcast on state radio. ... more

Despite high political tension and the frozen diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Iran, some sophisticated American security and police equipment found its way to display at a rare exhibition in Tehran late last month. Iranian businessmen introducing themselves as representatives of U.S. companies, brought the police and security equipment to the first International Police and Security Equipment Fair in the Iranian capital, to be the first exhibition of its kind held in the country. ... more

Kaveh Gohari, another prominent Iranian writer, has banned an official seminar organized by the Islamic republic regime. This meeting is supposed to take place in order to "cheer" the Iranian writers in the frame of the controversial offcial policy named "Dialogue among civilizations". ... more

TEHRAN, March 1 (AFP) - Iranian state radio on Friday rejected a Saudi peace initiative for the Middle East, saying it brought nothing new, echoing remarks by Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi to a German newspaper this week. The proposals which Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz intends to present to an Arab summit in Beirut March 27-28 is like "back-stabbing the Palestinian uprising," radio commentator and Middle East expert Mohamed Sajedi said. ... more

TEHRAN, March 2 (Reuters) - Iran intends to purchase 10 new Airbus(EAD) passenger aircraft and phase out around 30 Tupolev and Yak airliners leased from former Soviet states, a Transport Ministry spokesman told Reuters on Saturday. "Our first priority is to buy 10 new Airbus(aircraft)," Transport Ministry spokesman Mohammad Aryanfar told Reuters. ... more

TORONTO - An Internet company pulled the plug yesterday on the Toronto-based Web site of a Taliban-like Islamic militant group that has threatened "relentless" attacks against the United States. Web site of the Iranian radical group Ansar-e-Hizbollah was taken down ... ... more

Two teachers have been confirmed as dead following the bloody crackdown, which happened last month during the Teacher's demonstration in the Capital. These 2 teachers, Akhtar Ghassem-Zadeh-Moin 37 years old and Mohammad-Ebrahim Ahmad-Nia 46 years old, were hospitalized due to their injuries, without any right of familial visit, at the Khatam-Ol-Anbia Hospital which is under the management of the Pasdaran Corp. ... more

(CBS) A leading Iraqi opposition group is looking at a 5,000-foot mountain just inside Iraq's border with Iran as a potential site for a U.S.-backed radio transmitter to beam anti-Saddam Hussein broadcasts. Ahmad Chalabi, leader of the opposition Iraqi National Congress, said Thursday the mountain is in the largely autonomous Kurdish area of Iraq, about 100 miles northeast of Baghdad. Part of the mountain is in Iran. ... more

Vienna/Tehran: Iran is keenly interested in an intensive security policy dialogue with Vienna - and even sees Austria as a possible door opener for respective talks with the entire EU: the representative for strategic studies in the Defence Ministry, section chief Erich Reiter, returned with this impression from his latest trip to Iran. ... more

GENEVA, March 1 (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights investigator for Iran denounced on Friday an increase in public stonings, floggings and executions in the country and a "sweeping suppression" of the press. Maurice Copithorne, a Canadian jurist who has served in the independent U.N. post since 1995, accused the judiciary and its conservative backers of being the principal obstacle to reform. ... more

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A panel of experts on Iraq's presumed weapons of mass destruction program expressed skepticism Friday that any new team of international inspectors would be able to disarm the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. "There is no alternative to the replacement of Saddam," said David Kay, a former senior United Nations arms inspector and an advocate of prompt military action against Iraq. ... more

During the years following the victory of the Islamic revolution, we have often witnessed fluctuations in relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and other governments - especially major industrial powers. Relations often turn into hostility; then hostility escalates quickly only to subside as abruptly as it had escalated. ... more

Kharrazi added that the European Union does not accept the US stances and does not consider them in the interests of the global security and peace. ... more