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TEHRAN (FNA)- Criminals and gangs are undermining Tehran-Islamabad friendly relations and the Pakistani government should be aware of that,” a senior Iranian MP warned. In a meeting with Pakistani Ambassador to Tehran Mohammad B. Abbasi, chairman of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi urged Islamabad …
Read More »Elham Calls for Practical Change in Obama’s Iran Policy
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Government Spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham said that Iran was looking for “practical change” in US foreign policy towards Tehran under the new US president. “We are awaiting for practical changes by the new US statesmen,” Elham was quoted as saying by the Iranian students news agency. Referring …
Read More »Iraq Expels MKO despite EU Move
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iraq will expel the anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) in spite of EU decision to strike the group off its blacklist, Iran’s Ambassador to Baghdad Hassan Kazemi Qomi said. Iraq believes the nature of MKO is terrorist and ordered the group to leave the country, …
Read More »Envoy Submits Ahmadinejad’s Message to Kenyan President
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s special envoy submitted his message to the Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki. At the meeting with the Kenyan president, Ahmadinejad’s aide Jalil Besharati raised the issue of Gaza and also elaborated on the Islamic Republic’s relations with African countries. Referring to the continued siege of …
Read More »Iran’s Judiciary criticizes EU for removing MKO from black list
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Judiciary Spokesman Ali-Reza Jamshidi criticized the European Union on Tuesday for removing the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) from its black list. Under heavy pressures exerted by the Zionist lobby, the EU politicians decided in their latest meeting on Monday, to exclude the outlawed group from Europe’s …
Read More »Iran to Open Joint Banks with Foreigners in Free Trade Zones
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Parliament on Monday approved a plan for opening of joint branches of Iranian and foreign banks and insurance companies in several free trade zones across the country. Hamidreza Khabbaz, rapporteur of the Parliament’s Economic Commission, said in an exclusive interview with the Islamic republic news agency that …
Read More »Unique Parthian Burial Found in Iran
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian archeologists have found a unique form of Parthian burial in the country’s Nakhl-e-Ebrahimi village in Hormozgan Province. The second phase of Nakhl-e-Ebrahimi archeological excavations yielded 10 jar burials and a fetal burial, which is the first of its kind found at the site. “The team also found …
Read More »Rafsanjani Calls for Boosting of Iran-Kazakhstan Cooperation
TEHRAN (FNA)- Chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, in a meeting with Kazakh Ambassador to Tehran Yerik Utembayev today, stressed the need for expansion of bilateral relations. “Due to rich reserves and good potentialities, the two countries could widely cooperate in development and growth of one another,” Rafsanjani …
Read More »EU Takes MKO off Terror List
TEHRAN (FNA)- The European Union decided Monday to remove the anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), from its blacklist, a move which caused angry demonstrators to pour to the streets in Tehran. The 27- nation bloc’s foreign ministers, meeting in Brussels, decided to drop MKO from the blacklist. …
Read More »Iran to Educate Iraqi PhD Students
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Shahid Chamran University announced preparedness to educate Iraqi PhD students. The Iranian university also has inked four Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with the universities of India, France and Iraq, expert for international relations department Farah Chenari said. She also announced that Shahid Chamran university receives four free …
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