Eurasia

TEHRAN (FNA)- Israel has urged Russia to turn a blind eye to its military deals with Georgia and to halt its sale of advanced weapons to Iran and Syria.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, heading a political delegation, arrived in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Saturday to discuss the latest developments in the Caucasus region.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki is due to pay a daylong visit to Baku, the Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Iran, Abbasali Hasanov said Saturday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday NATO’s promise to extend membership to Georgia was unjust, humiliating and intolerable to Moscow.

Russian troops have withdrawn from the Georgian port of Poti on the Black Sea coast in the first phase of a pullout brokered by France. They have also been dismantling various camps and checkpoints they established elsewhere in Western Georgia, after a brief war erupted early in August over the …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Russian diplomatic and military officials held talks with their Iranian and Syrian counterparts Friday, amid tensions with the West following Russia’s conflict with Georgia last month.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Indian government has planned to set up a separate project company to generate funding for materializing the 7.4-billion-dollar pipeline project which is due to take Iran’s rich gas reserves to the energy hungry Pakistan and India.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s new ambassador to Turkey Bahman Hosseinpour Dhashtgholi, presented his credentials yesterday to Turkish President Abdullah Gul, thus upgrading the level of Tehran’s representation in Ankara from chargé d’affaires to ambassador after approximately two years.

TEHRAN (FNA)- A top Russian official said Moscow will veto any US attempt in the UN Security Council to impose a new round of sanctions against Iran.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The capacity of Iran-Armenia gas pipeline project will increase to 2.5 billion cubic meters, Armenia’s Minister of Energy Armen Movsisyan announced.