TEHRAN (FNA) Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said that Iran would humiliate any possible attacker over its nuclear program.

TEHRAN (FNA) Registration for March 14 parliamentary elections opened on Saturday throughout Iran, with potential candidates set to vie for 290 seats in the legislature including a politically important 30 in the capital Tehran.

TEHRAN (FNA) China’s Soueast Motor Co. Ltd. has clinched a deal with an Iranian company to sell 5,700 minibuses this year after exporting 8,000 of the vehicles to the country last year, the company said on Friday.

TEHRAN (FNA) Iran’s former nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani and Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem on Friday discussed developments in Lebanon.

TEHRAN (FNA) Pakistan’s Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Ahsanullah Khan said there exists tremendous scope for promoting Pak-Iran ties in the oil, gas and mineral sectors and invited the Iranian companies to participate in the upcoming petroleum projects for learning a lot from each others’ experience.

TEHRAN (FNA) India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp and the Hinduja Group will meet again with Iranian firms on developing an oil and a gas field in Iran and downstream projects in India, a Hinduja Group official said on Friday.

TEHRAN (FNA) Many OPEC states are now producing as much oil as they can, limiting the ability of the cartel to raise output even if such a decision was made to help cool crude prices, an Iranian oil official was quoted on Saturday as saying.

TEHRAN (FNA) Iran on Friday sought Pakistan’s cooperation in combating terrorism which threatened the stability of the entire region.

TBILISI – Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili is likely to scrape an election win on Saturday in a vote the West will scrutinize for fairness, but polls differ on whether his victory will be big enough to avoid a second round.

DAMASCUS – Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal called on Friday for unconditional talks with the rival Fatah faction to halt violence between Palestinians but vowed to keep up the Islamist group’s armed struggle against Israel.