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Iran won the 2013 Freestyle Wrestling World Cup on Friday, by beating Russia 6-1 in Tehran.

Also, in the bronze medal match which was held before the final on the same day, the United States overpowered Belarus 6-1.

Iranian wrestlers beat their Russian rivals in the 55-, 60-, 74-, 84-, 96-, and 120-kilogram weight classes.

Iran’s Hassan Rahimi in 55 kg and Masoud Esmailpour in 60 kg both dominated and gave Iran the early 2-0 lead.

Then Mehdi Taghavi lost in the 66 kg category. Sadegh Goudarzi made a great come back to win in 74 kg. The most important battle was Ehsan Lashgari who sealed the win for Iran in the 84 kg. » Read more

He stated that what prevents Iran from seeking a nuclear weapon is not the fear from America, but the religious and Islamic belief which prohibits producing, using, or threatening by these weapons, and rather calls for removing them.

“We believe that nuclear weapons (in the world) must be obliterated, and we do not intend to make nuclear weapons. But if we had decided to possess nuclear weapons, no power could have prevented us.”

He considered that the contradiction in the US statements and acts is an indication to its irrationality, indicating that US President Barack Obama’s speech on preventing Iran from possessing a nuclear weapon is a forgery. » Read more

For the first time, Iran has unveiled a production line of Scan Eagle drones.

According to Fars news Agency, Iran has released the first images of production line of U.S-origin drones.

Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy Rear-Admiral Ali Fadavi had said previously that Iran has launched the production line of Scan Eagle drones.

Fadavi announced on December 4 that a US Scan Eagle drone had been captured by Iranian forces over the Persian Gulf upon the aircraft’s intrusion into the Iranian airspace. » Read more

Iran released a video obtained from the wreckage of the US drone surveillance aircraft, US RQ-170, it shot down last year in December.

All the data obtained from the aircraft has been decoded according to Senior Iranian commander Brigadier General Amir-Ali Hajizadeh.

Earlier in April, the country’s military officers announced that Iranian experts have decoded the drone’s intelligence gathering system and hard discs, but provided little evidence of the breakthrough.

However, the newly released video specifics the first samples of the unmanned air vehicle’s activities, including flying around the Kandahar airfield (KAF) in Afghanistan, a building under observation and a Reaper drone parked at the KAF. » Read more

Recently released data shows Iran’s crude oil exports to China soared to the second highest level in December 2012, despite US-led sanctions against the Islamic Republic’s energy sector.

According to a Reuters report, China imported nearly 593,390 barrels per day (bpd) of crude from Iran in December last year, up 3.6 per cent from the preceding year and up 39 per cent from November. For the full year 2012, the highest level of China’s crude imports from Iran stood at 633,000 bpd.

Industry officials in China attributed the enhancement in Iran’s crude oil exports to improvement in shipment. The problems that

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange lashed out on Wednesday at a Hollywood film about his website, calling the movie “a massive propaganda attack”.

Speaking to students at Britain’s prestigious Oxford University by video-link from the Ecuadoran embassy in London, Assange revealed that he had acquired a copy of the script for “The Fifth Estate”, due to be released in November.

“It is a mass propaganda attack against WikiLeaks the organization, but it is not just an attack against us - it is an attack against Iran. It fans the flames to start a war with Iran.” he said.

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During the past few years, Iran’s effort to simply acquire a nuclear program has been used as an excuse by Western officials to question peaceful goals of Iran.  They do their best to convince the world that Iran will “soon” build a nuclear weapon.

However, the word “soon” is somehow ambiguous and cannot create the desired psychological effect that Western states desire.

Therefore, they have given various deadlines such as “up to one year,” “within the next two years,” or “in a decade” as their varied forecast on how long it could take Iran to build a bomb.

For example, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during his address to the 67^th annual session of the UN General Assembly » Read more

Iran’s intelligence service revealed the story of arresting a CIA spy.
According to the Iranian state television broadcast, a Westerner who identified as Matti Valok who had spied for the US Central Intelligence Agency.
The man, aged about 30, with long hair, is presented without nationality be stated in a report entitled “hunters trapped.”
He was arrested in 2012 after being monitored for several months by the Iranian intelligence services, according to the television station that broadcast images of the suspect on the street or in hotels, the Iranian capital.

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