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Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi said that a number of 495 candidates have enrolled to stand in the elections for Experts Assembly. Speaking to reporters in a press conference here on Wednesday, he said 131 thousand ballot boxes will be stationed across the country. The elections are to be supervised …

Following the terrorist blast in northwestern Iran which disrupted gas supplies to Turkey, the western neighbor of the oil rich Iran had to increase its gas imports from Russia. A senior law enforcement commander of the Western Azerbaijan province earlier said that the terrorist group PKK has been in charge …

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of an open session of the Islamic Consultative Assembly here on Wednesday, Haddad Adel stressed the peaceful nature of his country’s nuclear activities, and reiterated, “What is heard about the referral of Iran’s case to the United Nations Security Council is in direct opposition …

Speaking to FNA’s economic desk, Javad Yarjani, director of the Oil Ministry’s OPEC Affairs and Relations with Energy Circles department, said that OPEC’s periodic president is now exchanging views with the oil ministers and officials of the member states in a bid to reach a comprehensive and integrated decision in …

Political directors from the permanent five members of the U.N. Security Council — the United States, China, Russia, Britain, France — and Germany would talk via video conference, said US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack on Tuesday. U.N. ambassadors are expected to take up the issue after Wednesday’s meeting, he …

A part of the statement read, “We, university and religious school students have congregated in front of the Zionist embassy of Denmark in Tehran to express our vehement protest at the recent insults directed at the holy prophet of Islam (PBUH), and we, hereby, announce that this congregation has not …

Group: Tehran –Center for Information Services of Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO) Reg Date: 10/10/2006 9:16:00 AM

All Muslim States should Sever Relations with Denmark ================================= In Jordan on Monday, the Jordanian associations, a powerful umbrella for some 200,000 professionals including engineers, doctors and journalists, said the video “reveals hatred toward the Prophet who came to the world with a message to enlighten the people.”

In the wake of Israel’s 34-day war with Hizbullah, the 24-year-old Islamic movement has become the most popular political party in the Middle East.

On Sept. 12, 2006, Pope mentioned in his address during his visit to Germany that: ‘…Islam was spread by the sword…’.