Iran News

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel said if the West continues posing threats and sanctions against Tehran, that would mean that the nuclear issue is just an excuse for the US and some other powers to exert pressure on Iran.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The Japanese government acknowledged Friday that Inpex Corp. has agreed to reduce its interests in the development of Iran’s Azadegan oil field to 10 percent from the current 75 percent after days of talks over the stalled $2 billion deal.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Angola’s accredited ambassador to Tehran Pedro Hendrik Vall Neto met with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki here on Saturday and submitted his credentials to him.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Member of the Iranian Parliament’s Presiding Board Hamid Reza Hajji Baba’ee defined the recent meeting of the Group 5+1 in London as just a political-propaganda maneuver to exert pressure on Iran.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The political advisor of the Shiite Majority Fraction in the Iraqi parliament Mohsen Hakim, noting the recent remarks of the country’s President Jalal Talebani, said that the Parliament is the only authority to decide about continued presence of the US troops in Iraq.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Tehran’s interim Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Mohammad Imami Kashani said both Muslims and Christians are seeking a peaceful life beside each other and the recent provocative statements of Pope Benedict XVI can no more impair Muslim-Christian relations and coexistence.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Tehran voiced his country’s enthusiasm for transferring its oil to the waters of the Persian Gulf.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Croatian Ambassador to Tehran said that the people of East Europe are waiting for the Iranian-made passenger car ‘Samand’.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Azerbaijan’s ambassador to Tehran said that if the crisis of Karabachos is not solved through negotiations and peaceful means, his country would study the last solution, meaning that the Republic of Azerbaijan would resort to military option.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that despite the abundant potentials and material talents of such world continents as Africa and South America, the world powers have deprived these countries and nations of their certain rights.