Nigeria says it will take action against Iran if an investigation shows it broke international law and United Nations sanctions in an arms smuggling case.

The Israeli navy intercepted an Iranian ship loaded with medicine, food and clothing destined for Gaza and forced the vessel to head toward an Egyptian port, Iran’s state television reported today.

Iran has sent a warship to the coast of Somalia to protect its cargo ships against piracy, state radio said today.

A strong earthquake rocked southern Iran today, sending tremors across the Persian Gulf and shaking the skyscrapers of Dubai. Iranian state television reported that at least 3 people were killed and 22 injured.

An Iranian passenger plane skidded off the runway, sparking a fire as it landed in the north-eastern city of Mashhad today, killing 29 people, Iran’s aviation chief said.

Iranian state TV says 80 people have been killed after a plane caught fire as it was landing today in Mashhad, north-eastern Iran.

An earthquake with a magnitude of at least 5.6 has hit a sparsely populated area of southern Iran.

AT LEAST 128 people were killed when a military transport plane clipped the top of a 10-storey apartment building in Tehran and crashed, gouging out a huge crater and igniting a major fire.

A military transport plane loaded with Iranian journalists and trying to make an emergency landing slammed into a 10-storey apartment building, ripping open the top of the structure and igniting a huge fire.

An Iranian military transport plane crashed into a 10-storey apartment building in the suburbs of the capital Tehran today, killing at least 119 people.

An Iranian military transport plane with 94 people on board crashed into a 10-storey building in the suburbs of the capital Tehran on Tuesday, state television reported.

AN EARTHQUAKE measuring at least magnitude 5.9 shook a sparsely populated area of southern Iran yesterday, flattening seven villages and killing 10 people, officials said.

A 5.9-magnitude earthquake shook southern Iran today, Tehran’s seismologic centre said.

Iran said yesterday that a US military strike against it would be a strategic blunder, but brushed aside tough talk from Washington as psychological warfare rather than a real threat.