Eurasia Press & News
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani, in a meeting with his Spanish counterpart Monday morning, welcomed expansion of economic and trade exchanges between the two countries. “This capacity has not been used so much up to now”, Larijani added while visiting the Spanish Congress during his trip to the …
Read More »Russian Scholar: West Aware of Iran Regional Power
TEHRAN (FNA)- The western countries know that Iran has a great regional influence and power, the director of the Center for Contemporary Iranian Studies in Moscow said on Monday. Rajab Safarov also noted that the European countries and the US have realized that the problems of the region, including the …
Read More »Iran Calls on UK Not to Politicize British Council Closure
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran told Britain not to politicize what it said was London’s decision to close the Iranian offices of the British Council, the UK government’s cultural arm. Iranian Government Spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham told a news conference that London probably chose to halt the council’s operations for economic reasons …
Read More »US “Acknowledges Serbia’s Hague Efforts”
The United States has for the first time acknowledged Serbia’s efforts to arrest the remaining two war crime fugitives, Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic, and hand them over to the United Nations court in The Hague, said Rasim Ljajic, Serbia’s point man for cooperation with the Tribunal. After meeting the …
Read More »Macedonia Family Buries Stranger In Coffin Switch
The Tahiri family from the western Macedonian town of Tetovo were shocked to find out they had mistakenly mourned and buried a Turkish man instead of their mother. Both the Turkish man and the 65-year old woman died in Germany and their remains were supposed to be transported by plane …
Read More »Pakistani Taliban release tape of Pole’s murder
KOHAT, Pakistan – Pakistani Taliban militants released a video tape Sunday of them beheading a Polish geologist whom they said they killed because Pakistan’s government refused to release Taliban prisoners. The Islamist militants said Saturday they had executed the Polish engineer, Piotr Stanczak, who they kidnapped in September, because the …
Read More »Tehran Doubts Western Claims on Iran-US Relations
TEHRAN (FNA)- Tehran doubts some western countries’ claims about improvement of Iran-US relations, Rapporteur of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Kazem Jalali said. “Some western countries are unsatisfied with the settlement of problems in Iran- US ties and some of them try to complicate the issue,” Jalali …
Read More »Iran Seizes 500 Tons of Drugs Destined for Europe
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran seized more than 500 tons of drugs from smugglers, Commander of Iran’s anti-drug squad General Hamid Reza Hossein-Abadi said in Turkey yesterday. The drugs which were seized in the past 10 months were due to be transited to Europe, Hossein-Abadi told reporters at his joint news conference …
Read More »Miliband: London Stance on MKO Unchanged
TEHRAN (FNA)- British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, in a meeting with Iranian envoy to the Munich security conference Ali Larijani, said his government’s stance on the anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), has not changed. Miliband went to the Iranian parliament speaker’s residence in Munich Saturday night on …
Read More »Iran, Belarus to Discuss Joint Ventures
TEHRAN (FNA)- The ninth session of the joint Iran-Belarus commission for economic cooperation will be held in Minsk on February 9-13, a Belarus spokesman said. The Belarusian part of the commission is led by Industry Minister Anatoly Rusetsky, the Iranian part – by Trade Minister Masoud Mir-Kazemi. The Iranian delegation …
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