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TEHRAN (FNA)- At least 40 people, 16 of them Iranian pilgrims, were killed and 72 were wounded Sunday in a suicide bombing in Baghdad at the doorstep of one of Iraq’s holiest Shiite shrines, government and hospital officials said. The attacker appeared to have singled out a procession of Iranian …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran and Pakistan will hold another round of dialogue on the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project and the provision of oil on deferred payment to Pakistan, Pakistani Petroleum Ministry officials said. “Talks will be held in the next three to four weeks in Islamabad,” an official in …

TEHRAN (FNA)- A female suicide bomber killed at least 40 people, many of them Iranian pilgrims, and wounded scores more when she blew herself up amid a crowd of Shiite worshippers outside a shrine in Baghdad yesterday. The attack was the second major bombing since US forces came under Iraqi …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki underlined that Baghdad will take legal action against the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization, and assured Tehran that Iraq will no longer tolerate MKO terrorists. Speaking in a meeting with Iranian Foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki in Tehran on Saturday, the Iraqi premier also vowed …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Parliament speaker Ali Larijani plans to travel to Turkey to attend the Islamic Inter-Parliamentary Association (IPA) meeting, a lawmaker said on Sunday. The meeting will be held next Wednesday to discuss the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, Rapporteur of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Saeed Jalili and Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Mualem on Sunday reviewed the latest developments in Gaza Strip. The meeting was held prior to Jalili’s departure from the Syrian capital yesterday. Israeli ground assault, ways for urgent cessation of the attacks, …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s 2009/10 budget is expected to be based on an oil price of $37.50 per barrel, a “logical” level in view of last year’s price fall, Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said Sunday. An Iranian newspaper last month said the government and a parliament committee had an initial …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Relations between Iraq and Iran are developing in a number of ways, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said during a visit to Iran. “The exchange of high ranking visits between the two country’s officials shows that the bilateral relations are developing in different areas,” Maliki said after a …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran plans to build new storage tanks on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf waters in a bid to raise its storage capacity by 25%. Construction work of the planned 5 million-barrel storage tanks on Kharg Island is expected to be completed by the next 30 months, Managing …

TEHRAN (FNA)- A five per cent block of Bank Mellat shares is to be offered on the Tehran Stock Exchange. Bank Mellat shares will be on offer during Ten-Day Dawn ceremonies (31 January – 9 February), according to the deputy head of the Iran Privatization Organization (IPO), Esmaeel Gholami. Bank …