The United States has rejected the package of proposals put forward by Iran, which were aimed at breaking the impasse over its nuclear programme.

General Ahmad Vahidi, who is wanted by Interpol in connection with the bombing of a Jewish centre in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina and the country’s largest city, is to become the defence minister of Iran.

US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi, who has been held in an Iranian jail for nearly a month, finally got to meet a lawyer, on March 9, 2009.

After some speculations about Mohammad Khatami’s candidacy, the former Iranian president has made the announcement that he will run against the President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the upcoming June 12, 2009 elections.