TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran voiced strong opposition against plans to lay pipelines on the seabed of the Caspian Sea, warning that the move would cause irreparable environmental pollution in the world’s biggest lake.
Read More »Azerbaijani President Receives Iranian Deputy FM
TEHRAN (FNA)- Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev received a visiting Iranian delegation led by the Deputy Foreign Minister Mehdi Safari on Thursday.
Read More »Iran’s Gas Cheapest Energy Supply for India
TEHRAN (FNA)- Turkmenistan seeks a price for the gas to be sold to India via TAPI pipeline three times higher than Iran’s price of gas via the Iran-Pakistani, India (IPI) pipeline.
Read More »Suspected U.S. drone attack kills 5 in Pakistan
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) – At least five people were killed on Friday in a missile attack by a suspected U.S. drone in Pakistan’s North Waziristan region, in a stepped up campaign against militants near the Afghan border.
Read More »Rice set for historic Libya visit, meeting Gaddafi
LISBON (Reuters) – Condoleezza Rice hailed as “historic” her trip to Libya later on Friday, the first by a U.S. secretary of state to the former pariah nation in 55 years and a visit aimed at erasing decades of enmity.
Read More »US aid ship arrives at Russian-patrolled Georgian port
A third US naval ship has been delivering humanitarian aid to Georgia. However, unlike the two other American vessels, the USS Mount Whitney was offloading supplies at the Russian-patrolled port of Poti. Earlier US shipments steered clear of a potential showdown with the Russians by diverting to Batumi.
Read More »Oil Prices still Sliding
TEHRAN (FNA)- Oil prices closed modestly lower Wednesday as the market focused on demand amid a slowing global economy and signs that OPEC is under pressure to cut supply.
Read More »Iran Urges EU to Stop anti-Islamic Meeting
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran summoned the French charge d’affaires on Wednesday to voice its concern about an anti-Islamic congress to be held in Germany later this month.
Read More »Making money on a new Cold War
The Russia-Georgia clash has generated heated anti-Moscow rhetoric from John McCain and U.S. neoconservatives about a new Cold War, a prospect that most people might see in a negative light but which many military contractors surely view as a financial plus.
Read More »Russian Delegation Arrives in Iran to Visit N. Plant
TEHRAN (FNA)- A team of Russian nuclear experts is visiting Iran as part of regular checking of the Islamic Republic’s first nuclear power plant which is under construction by Russia in the southwestern Iranian port city of Bushehr.
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