Iranian officials have dismissed U.S. concerns regarding the country's space program after launching a new rocket capable of carrying the first domestically-built satellite into orbit.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated the country's first home-built space center which will serve as a base for the launch of research satellites.

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has again vowed that his country will not yield to Western pressure and stop its pursuit of nuclear technology.

Russia says it has made its eighth and last fuel delivery for Iran's nuclear power plant at Bushehr.

Iran's official news agency says the country has received a seventh shipment of nuclear fuel from Russia for its first atomic power plant.

A senior U.S. official says a new U.N. sanctions resolution aimed at pressuring Iran to curb its sensitive nuclear activities will be "punitive," despite Russian remarks to the contrary.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her counterparts from five other leading powers Tuesday agreed in Berlin on a U.N. resolution against Iran over its nuclear program. Details of the resolution have yet to be released, but diplomats say it will strengthen and expand existing sanctions. VOA's Josh Ward reports from Berlin.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says world powers are making progress towards a new United Nations resolution to impose sanctions on Iran, but stresses they are still short of an agreement.

Rice spoke after arriving in Berlin Tuesday, for a meeting of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council (the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China) and Germany on Iran's nuclear program. She said participants still have some way to go.

China has hinted it would not support a new round of sanctions against Iran despite Tehran's continued defiance of United Nations resolutions on its nuclear program. The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany are meeting in Berlin to discuss further sanctions against Tehran. Daniel Schearf reports from Beijing.

Russia has delivered more than half the fuel for Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, after a fourth consignment arrived.

The international spotlight is back on Iran's nuclear program ahead of six-country talks in Berlin on possible new UN economic sanctions against Tehran.

Mohammad Latif has spent three years waiting to be hanged.

He was only 14 years old when, in October 2004, a scuffle outside school landed him in prison. It was a cold afternoon in Saveh, southwest of Tehran. Latif says a 16-year-old boy he didn't know attacked him with a knife.