Iran’s Agricultural Jihad Minister Mohammad Reza Eskandari said his country has joined the club of wheat exporting countries.
Read More »Iran Dismisses US Ruling on 1983 Attack
Iran said that a US federal court decision to fine Tehran $2 bln and 650 mln for the 1983 bombing of a Marine barracks in Beirut was “baseless” and aimed at plundering Iranian assets.
Read More »Baghdad Hosts Regional Conference
The third major gathering of Iraq’s neighboring states, including Syria and Iran, starts in Baghdad on Sunday.
Read More »Muslim Envoys Condemn Insults to Islam by Swedish Press
Ambassadors of Islamic countries in a letter to Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt condemned sacrilege of Islamic sanctities and values, and stressed that human values should be misused and violated under the pretext of the freedom of speech.
Read More »IAEA Chief Responds to Critics of His Iran Plan
The chief UN nuclear inspector Mohamed ElBaradei responded to US criticism, saying critics weren’t giving attempts to get Iran to come clean on past nuclear activities a chance to work.
Read More »US Sees Potential Merit to Iran-IAEA Agreement
The United States said there was potential merit to Iran’s nuclear transparency deal with UN inspectors, after earlier branding it a diversionary gambit to forestall tougher UN sanctions.
Read More »Oliver Stone Puts Iran Film on Hold, Focusing on Vietnam
US director Oliver Stone has postponed plans for a film about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and is instead focusing his energies on a film about Vietnam, Pinkville, his spokesman said Friday.
Read More »India Underlines Iran’s N. Rights
Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee in a meeting with Iran’s visiting Deputy Foreign Minister Mehdi Safari stressed Tehran’s right of access to peaceful nuclear technology while fulfilling all its international commitments and obligations.
Read More »US Spars With IAEA Chief over Iran
The Bush administration Friday defended its approach to Iran’s nuclear program in the face of implicit criticism from International Atomic Energy Agency director Mohammed ElBaradei.
Read More »Tehran: No Decision Made on Talks with US over Iraq
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said that his country has not yet decided about the future of talks with the Untied States over Iraq.
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