Iran News

Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz highlighted his country’s close energy ties with Iran, and described Islamabad as a major customer for Iran’s gas supplies.

Sweden’s deputy foreign minister voiced support for Iran’s right to access peaceful nuclear technology, and further welcomed Tehran’s increased cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Iran’s Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi described his country’s growing power as the main reason underlying increasing threats against the Islamic Republic.

Some 18,000 German nationals have become Muslims since 1945, the daily Cologne-based Koelnische Rundschau newspaper quoted the Islam-Archive Central Institute, based in the western town of Soest.

The visiting Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Dr Mahdi Safari on Thursday gave an update to Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri on Tehran’s ongoing negotiations with the European Union and the IAEA regarding its nuclear program.

Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said Tehran and Moscow have come to a good understanding on the completion of Iran’s first nuclear power plant in the southern city of Bushehr.

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei ruled out claims made by western media about wide gaps and war of power in Iran’s Experts Assembly.

Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani warned that if western countries rock the boat, progress in nuclear talks would be endangered.

Caretaker of Iran’s Industries and Mines Ministry Mehrabian here Thursday conferred with Bolivia’s visiting Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca Cespedes about expansion of industrial and mining relations and cooperation between the two countries.

A foreign vessel smuggling 300 thousand liters of fuel was stopped and confiscated by Iranian law enforcement police in the country’s southern port city of Minab.