Iran will respond in mid-August to the Western incentives for a rolling back of its nuclear programme, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today.

IRAN’S hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed yesterday that “no one could make the Iranian nation” give up its nuclear technology.

Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed today that “no one could make the Iranian nation” give up its nuclear technology.

Three strong earthquakes and several aftershocks jolted western Iran overnight, killing at least 66 people and injuring about 1,200 others, state television reported today.

Two strong earthquakes followed by several aftershocks jolted western Iran early today, killing at least 38 and injuring hundreds, state media reported.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today said that the world must give in to Iran’s right to enrich uranium.

Iran claimed today that it had arrested anti-government separatists with links to British intelligence services, accusing them of involvement in violent protests and a recent spate of deadly bombings.

An Iranian court has reimposed a death sentence against a university professor who criticised clerical rule.

A university professor whose death sentence provoked nationwide protests until it was lifted by Iran’s Supreme Court has been sentenced by an appeals court to just under four years in jail, his lawyer said today.

A moderate earthquake jolted western Iran late Tuesday, causing panic but no casualties, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

At least 200 people have been killed in an earthquake in western Iran, the official news agency reported today.