TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran Tuesday shortened the length of its mandatory military service by up to two months.
Read More »Iran Plans Fuel Subsidies Cut on Path to Phase-out
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran plans to gradually cut from the next Iranian year the amount of heavily-subsidized gasoline motorists can buy and completely eliminate subsidies by 2011, an Iranian official said in comments published on Tuesday.
Read More »Iran Plans Gas Link to Europe Distinct from Nabucco
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran plans to build a Persian Pipeline for shipping its natural gas to Europe that would be independent of the EU-backed Nabucco project, a senior Iranian official said on Monday.
Read More »Iran Continues Successful Lobbies for Security Council Seat
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian officials embarked on an intense lobbying campaign to gather enough support to gain a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council.
Read More »Iran: Financial Crisis Shows Limits of US Power
TEHRAN (FNA)- The financial crisis is the result of “mistakes” by the United States and shows the limits of Washington’s power to influence world events, Iran’s parliament speaker said Tuesday.
Read More »Iran Ready to Resume Talks on Iraq with US
TEHRAN (FNA)- Tehran is ready to resume talks with Washington on security problems in Iraq, a spokesman for the Iranian embassy in Baghdad said Tuesday.
Read More »Iran: US Forces must Leave Middle East before any Talks
TEHRAN (FNA)- A top adviser to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Iran would hold talks with the United States only if its forces leave the Middle East and Washington ends its support for Israel.
Read More »Iran’s Ex-President Hosts Prominent Western Figures
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s former President Seyed Mohammad Khatami is hosting several former Western leaders at a conference in Tehran.
Read More »Iran Suggests Construction of Caspian Sea-Persian Gulf Oil Pipeline
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki proposed that a large oil pipeline be constructed to transport Caspian countries’ oil to the Persian Gulf.
Read More »Islamic Countries Support Iran’s Bid for UNSC Membership
TEHRAN (FNA)- Islamic Countries Inter-Parliamentary Union (ICIPU) in a meeting Monday in Geneva on the sidelines of IPU Conference in its closing communiqué voiced support for Iran’s bid for UN Security Council membership.
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