Iran’s First Vice-President Parviz Dawoodi said that the pressures exerted by the US and certain countries on foreign investors to prevent them from investing their capitals in Iran have all proved unfruitful.

If Mr. Bush has any power, he’d better spend it on the establishment of security and freedom inside his country, Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel said pointing to the recent manslaughter at Virginia Tech University.

Islamic Republic army started a public display of the drones it has specifically designed for electronic warfare during a ceremony held at the mausoleum of the Founder of the Islamic Republic, the late Imam Khomeini, in southern Tehran on Wednesday to mark the ‘Army Day’.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country’s army serves regional peace and security while defending the security and territorial integrity of Iran.

A delegation of administrative officials from Iraq attended a meeting with officials of Iran’s Arvand Free Zone to discuss facilitation of possible grounds for investment of Iraqi traders in the said region.

Iran says the French oil giant, Total, will make its final decision on investment in Iran’s “Pars LNG” project in the next few months.

Iran’s crude oil revenues in the last Iranian calendar year reached $60b – with oil exports making up $51.15b of the mentioned amount.

At the end of his one-day working visit to Turkey, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki left Ankara for the Syrian capital of Damascus on Tuesday.

By Terry Friel KABUL (Reuters) – As the bloodshed in Afghanistan worsens, the Taliban are increasingly targeting civilians, the New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a new report on Monday. The group accuses the Taliban and other insurgents of war crimes in its latest report, “The Human Cost.” “Suicide …

By Mark Dummett, BBC News Civilians have been the main victims of insurgent attacks in Afghanistan in the past 15 months, a study has revealed. Even though most attacks have been on military and government targets, most victims have nothing to do with either, the Human Rights Watch study said. …