TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has stressed on dialogue to solve problems and said his country was “expecting a lot” from Lebanese President Michel Suleiman’s visit to Tehran next Monday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran said the advancements it has made in the past years have enabled it to enter dam construction contracts with other countries. Iranian specialists now provide consultation services for the design and construction of various sizes of dams, Energy Minister Parviz Fattah told reporters on Friday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s newly test-fired missile is fully radar-evading and cannot be traced, an Iranian lawmaker said. Heshmatollah Falahat-Pisheh was critical of wrong analyses being made by foreign agents about Iranian newly-test fired missile.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Expediency Council Chairman Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said that the western states have not fulfilled their promises to Iran, and further questioned the West’s sincerity regarding Tehran’s nuclear program.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s government needs up to $5 billion more to import fuel for the year to March 2009, in addition to a previously budgeted $3.3 billion, a senior oil ministry official said. Iran is the world’s fourth-largest exporter of crude but due to the lavish consumption of heavily subsidized …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Oil prices slid by more than $1, reaching $55.75 a barrel on the Singapore market amid news that OPEC may not cut production. On Monday, US light crude for December delivery dropped $1.29 to $55.75 a barrel in Singapore, while in London, Brent crude fell by 89 cents …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Mohammad Ali Hosseini on Sunday ruled out the possibility that Iran and the United States will resume diplomatic ties. Hosseini criticized the United States’ instrumental view towards its relations with the world, adding, “The restoration of Iran-US ties will not …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s ambassador to Pakistan Mashallah Shakeri said Pakistan has arrested suspects that may have been engaged in kidnapping Iran’s commercial attaché to Pakistan Heshmatollah Attarzadeh Niaki. Pakistani police is interrogating the suspects to find the place of Iranian diplomat, he said, the Iranian students news agency reported. Iran’s …

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Trade Promotion Organization of Iran (TPOI) and China’s External Trade Development Council signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen bilateral trade ties, a TPOI official said. TPOI Deputy Director Ali Hushmandi Manesh told MNA that the sides agreed on exchanging knowledge in economic and commercial fields, and …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Minister of Science, Research and Technology Mohammad Mehdi Zahedi here Monday met with a delegation of six American university presidents currently on a visit to Iran. The visit by the American delegation takes place at the invitation of the president of Sharif University of Technology Saeed Sohrab-Pour. …