TEHRAN (FNA) – A 12-member business delegation of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is slated to arrive here in Tehran Saturday, both on a fact-finding mission and to forge better business relations with Iranian companies.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Phase one development of the Shahid Rajaie Container Terminal (SRCT) project in Bandar Abbas, with a handling capacity of some 1.5 million teu, will open tomorrow.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iran may export 2,000 megawatts of electricity to Turkey, announced managing director of Electricity Network Management Company.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iran and Iraq have agreed to reactivate some elements of a 1975 border agreement which seemed to cause a row in December when the Iraqi president said the treaty was void, a statement he later retracted.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iran and India have agreed to improve bilateral ties, particularly in consular affairs and provision of broader facilities for nationals of both the countries that resulted in signing of a MoU.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iran’s Guardians Council reinstated another 200 candidates to run in a March parliamentary election.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An explosion killed one British soldier and wounded another in southern Afghanistan Wednesday, and U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops detained 22 suspected insurgents in two separate operations, officials said. Britain’s Ministry of Defense in London said the blast hit as a British patrol was trying to …

The umbrella coalition of fundamentalist groups is trying to create a candidate slate more comprehensive and rational than the United Fundamentalist Front’s list for the upcoming parliamentary election, MP Mohammad Khoshchehreh said here on Wednesday.

President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has called on the Western powers to respect the UN nuclear watchdog report confirming the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear activities.

TEHRAN (FNA) – The UAE’s Ras al-Khaimah emirate is still hoping for gas supplies from Iran despite political pressure not to deal with its northern neighbor and a lack of progress on talks, an official said on Tuesday.