Iran News

TEHRAN (FNA) Iran and Pakistan will sign an agreement on the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline next week, a minister said in Islamabad on Monday.

TEHRAN (FNA) President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday he was seeking a 17 percent spending increase in the budget for the next Iranian year.

TEHRAN (FNA) At least 21 people have been killed and 88 others injured in Iran in accidents related to heavy snowfall and strong winds during the last few days.

TEHRAN (FNA) Five Iranian speedboats warned three US navy ships to keep away from the Islamic Republic’s territorial waters in the strategic Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf over the weekend, US media quoted a Pentagon official as saying on Monday.

TEHRAN (FNA) The head of the UN nuclear watchdog will arrive Friday in Tehran on a two-day visit to discuss Iran’s nuclear program.

TEHRAN (FNA) A visiting delegation of Iranian police officials conferred with their Omani counterparts about several key issues in an official session in Masqat on Sunday, where the two sides discussed enhanced cooperation.

TEHRAN (FNA) Iran is to shake up its system of interest rates to take more account of rising inflation, officials said Sunday.

TEHRAN (FNA) Iran on Sunday awoke to heavy overnight snowfalls which forced schools to shut, blocked major roads and led to the cancellation of domestic flights.

TEHRAN (FNA) Iran’s former nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said in Damascus on Sunday that his country makes all efforts to help the Lebanese groups reach a consensus.

Majlis Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel has described U.S. reports about a confrontation between Iranian speedboats and U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf as “part of a psychological and propaganda campaign against the Islamic Republic.”