Iran News

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is due to leave Tehran for New York on September 23 to attend the annual meeting of the Untied Nations General Assembly.

Iran’s Red Crescent Society has planned to dispatch a relief and rescue team to Nicaragua to help the hurricane-stricken people of that country.

China welcomed Iran’s nuclear transparency deal with UN inspectors.

A Swedish envoy apologized to the Organization of Islamic Conference for the controversy created by the publication in Sweden of a sacrilegious cartoon involving Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), the OIC said.

China could overtake Germany as the leading exporter of goods to Iran as early as this year, according to western diplomats and Iranian businessmen.

Iran restarted to pump natural gas to Turkey on Thursday following a large explosion on Sunday night on a pipeline bringing gas from Iran to Turkey.

Visiting Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi said on Thursday that Iran is willing to receive international inspections on its nuclear activities and will continuously conduct nuclear programs for peaceful purposes only.

Iran has invited Zimbabwean scientists to establish scientific exchange programs.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has agreed to allow a Harvard scholar to be buried in the historic Iranian city of Isfahan when he dies.

Iran’s Acting Mines and Industry Minister Ali-Akbar Mehrabian has described his meeting with President Bashar al-Assad as “good, constructive and cordial”.