Iran News

Officials in Washington are claiming that Iranian hackers have stepped up attacks on the cyber networks of U.S. multinational corporations, focusing their attention on energy companies.

Teheran - According to Iran's defence minister, the country has built a new drone capable of evading radars, as well being able to fire onto targets.

Designed to be able to penetrate and destroy underground nuclear facilities in Iran and/or North Korea, the latest US massive ordinance penetrator (MOP) is nicknamed the 'Mother of All Bombs'. Twenty of these non-nuclear weapons are ready to be deployed.

Appearing on NBC's 'Meet The Press,' Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) openly suggested that Syria does not appear to be protected by Russian-made air defense systems, giving a further green light for more Israeli air-strikes.

Ottawa - The UN will be probing Canada's human rights record, with particular emphasis on First Nations and women. The Harper government has agreed to the probe, but has some serious questions regarding some members of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC)

While US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is in Israel today, offering refueling tankers as part of a large arms deal, Israel's National Security Council head Yaakov Amidror is in Turkey to discuss stationing Israeli fighter jets in an airbase near Ankara.

A report issued by the Iran Project has criticized the US for its sanctions policy against the Iranian regime concluding that they have "contributed to an increase in repression and corruption in Iran" and may be alienating the Iranian people.

A new resolution passed by a United States Senate committee states the United States will be committed to preventing the emergence of a nuclear Iran and fully back Israel if that state believes military action against Iran is necessary.

Tehran - The supreme leader of Iran, Grand Ayatollah Khamenei, condemned the recent bomb blasts that took place in Boston, while speaking to military leaders.

A major earthquake with a magnitude 7.8 Richter hit south-east Iran, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reports. The tremors were felt as far as New Delhi, India.