Iran Admits Mismanagement Behind Huge Quake Tolls
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Iran admitted on Tuesday that poor enforcement of building regulations had added to the death toll from the country's regular devastating earthquakes.
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Iran on Monday confirmed there was an "incident" between Iranian and U.S. ships but gave no details, an Iranian news agency reported, after Washington said Iranian vessels threatened their ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
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Angry Iranians torched pump stations and hurled abuse at President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government after the world's fourth-largest oil exporter said it was imposing fuel rationing on Wednesday.
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Iran's persistent failure to clear up concerns about its nuclear activities after concealing them for almost 20 years sets it apart from all other nations, the U.N. atomic watchdog chief said on Monday.
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Insurers seek to calm fears that they face huge losses after an earthquake and giant waves killed at least 23,000 people in southern Asia.
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The huge scale of the Asian quake disaster is making it difficult to assess the economic impact, the World Bank says.
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Faulty equipment, poor communications and cumbersome bureaucracy are being blamed for the failure of nations around the Indian Ocean's rim to warn communities about to be hit by one of the world's most devastating natural disasters.
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The toll from a severe earthquake on Indonesia's Sumatra island last week has risen to 17 dead and 88 injured, while more than 13,000 homes were destroyed or damaged, officials said on Saturday.
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A sharp rise in inflation has provoked fierce criticism of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Â not only from his reformist opponents, but also from senior conservatives who helped bring him to power but now say he is mismanaging the economy.
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As a way to draw attention from American shortcomings in Iraq, the U.S. is accusing Iran of trying to destabilize the war-torn country, the Iranian ambassador to Iraq told CNN.
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PARIS: Governments and aid organisations around the world scrambled to offer aid and technical help after the devastating quake and tidal waves that killed thousands of people in Asia on Sunday.
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Thousands gather in Bam to mourn some 30,000 victims of the earthquake that flattened the Iranian city a year ago.
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Survivors of the gigantic undersea earthquake on Sunday that swallowed coastlines from Indonesia to Africa - which officials now describe as one of the
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Iran, responding to comments by senior  U.S. officials, said Sunday any U.S. military attack on the  country would be a strategic mistake and dismissed the U.S.  remarks as "psychological warfare."
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A YEAR after one of the worst earthquakes in modern history, residents of the Iranian city of Bam are to pay their final respects to the 30,000 dead and bring an end to the traditional 12 months of mourning.
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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday U.S. President George W. Bush's Middle East policies had failed and he and others would one day be put on trial for "the tragedies they have created in Iraq".
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The Iranian president said on Wednesday Iran's determination to continue its disputed nuclear work had brought major powers "to their knees".