China welcomed Iran’s nuclear transparency deal with UN inspectors.

A Swedish envoy apologized to the Organization of Islamic Conference for the controversy created by the publication in Sweden of a sacrilegious cartoon involving Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), the OIC said.

China could overtake Germany as the leading exporter of goods to Iran as early as this year, according to western diplomats and Iranian businessmen.

Iran restarted to pump natural gas to Turkey on Thursday following a large explosion on Sunday night on a pipeline bringing gas from Iran to Turkey.

Visiting Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi said on Thursday that Iran is willing to receive international inspections on its nuclear activities and will continuously conduct nuclear programs for peaceful purposes only.

Iran has invited Zimbabwean scientists to establish scientific exchange programs.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has agreed to allow a Harvard scholar to be buried in the historic Iranian city of Isfahan when he dies.

KABUL, Afghanistan – The author of two best-selling novels set in Afghanistan said the country is moving in the right direction but that the international community must remain committed to rebuilding the war-torn nation.Khaled Hosseini, author of “The Kite Runner” and current New York Times No. 1 “A Thousand Splendid …

  Hundreds of Palestinians thronged two major West Bank checkpoints, trying to reach a key Islamic shrine in Jerusalem on the first Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, despite tight Israeli restrictions. 

  U.S. forces probably will not be a visible presence on Iraq’s streets five years from now, but the United States will remain a force in the country for years to come, Iraq’s ambassador to the U.S. predicted.