TEHRAN (FNA) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that honesty and maximizing relations with other countries underlie Tehran’s foreign policy.

TEHRAN (FNA) President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday toured areas of northern Iran hard hit by a cold snap and heavy snowfalls that have even led to some deaths.

TEHRAN (FNA) Iran’s cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog has entered a “new phase”, a top Iranian nuclear official said Friday after International Atomic Energy Agency chief, Mohamed ElBaradei, arrived in Tehran for talks concerning Iran’s nuclear program.

TEHRAN (FNA) Iran’s oil trade is unaffected by West’s banking pressure and the country is exporting just over 2.4 million barrels per day of crude, a senior Iranian oil official said yesterday.

TEHRAN (FNA) Iran is expected to resume gas exports to Turkey by the beginning of next week, ending a days-long cut forced by a supply crunch, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday.

TEHRAN (FNA) The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mohamed ElBaradei, is in Tehran for two days of talks on Iran’s nuclear program.

TEHRAN (FNA) Iran is unlikely to sign next week a bilateral agreement with Pakistan for export of natural gas and has said it was keen on India joining the tri-nation ‘peace’ pipeline project.

TEHRAN (FNA) Iran’s Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel called on US President George W. Bush to act wisely and refrain from interfering in the Islamic Republic’s upcoming parliament elections.

TBILISI – Georgian prosecutors on Thursday charged opposition politician and tycoon Badri Patarkatsishvili, in self-imposed exile in Israel and Britain, with plotting a coup and attempting to organize a terrorist attack.

LAHORE, Pakistan – A suicide bomb attack killed at least 22 people, most of them policemen, in Pakistan on Thursday, deepening a sense of insecurity weeks before an election that could weaken President Pervez Musharraf’s grip on power.