TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Following the release of an article by AFP on Iranian president’s nuclear policies, the Islamic Republic’s ambassador to Indonesia voiced protest and presented the following response.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Iran’s aluminum industries could benefit from closer ties with Aluminum Bahrain (Alba), Iran’s foreign minister said.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Iraq said on Thursday it had not repudiated a 32-year-old border treaty with Iran, despite a declaration by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani that the accord was now void.

The killing of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto on Thursday could trigger a wave of terror in the country, a top Russian diplomat was quoted as saying.

Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was killed in a gun and bomb attack after a rally in the city of Rawalpindi on Thursday, her party said.

Slovenia, the first country to quit Yugoslavia in 1991, becomes EU president on January 1 and will play a lead role in maybe the last act of the old Balkan federation’s demise when Kosovo secedes from Serbia.

The popularity of Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has more than doubled since President Vladimir Putin named him his preferred successor two weeks ago, an opinion poll showed on Thursday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Iran’s Deputy Oil Minister Ali Kordan, heading a high-ranking delegation, arrived in Ashkhabad Wednesday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) A Turkish parliamentary delegation headed by AKP MP and foreign relations committee chairman Murat Mercan met with a number of senior Iranian officials here in Tehran this week.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Iran’s first vice president and Libya’s prime minister Wednesday night attended in Tripoli the signing ceremony of 10 agreements in the fields of investment, marine wealth, customs, trade marine navigation, culture, higher education and tourism.