Eurasia Press & News
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Vice-President for Judicial and Parliamentary Affairs Mohammad Reza Rahimi conferred with Tunisian Foreign Minister Abdelwaheb Abdallah over bilateral ties and mutual cooperation in a meeting in Tunis. During the meeting, the two sides discussed bilateral relations, explored ways to further develop relations and exchanged views over regional …
Read More »UAE Company to Earn $1.6bln Revenue from Iran Deal
TEHRAN (FNA)- Etisalat, the United Arab Emirates’ largest telephone company, will be able to earn as much as $1.6 billion in revenue from its Iranian mobile-phone operations in five years, ING Groep NV said. The price of $398 million paid by the company and the local partner “seems too good …
Read More »Iran, Kazakhstan, Jordan, UAE Discuss Interaction within CICA
TEHRAN (FNA)- Executive Director of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) Dulat Bakishev made a working visit to Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Iran from January 8 to 14. The visit aimed at a discussion of the issues of interaction within the CICA, Kazinform …
Read More »Swiss Ambassador to Obey Iran’s Islamic Dress Code
TEHRAN (FNA)- Switzerland’s newly-appointed ambassador to Tehran, who is believed to be the first female ambassador to Tehran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, said she will observe Iran’s Islamic dress code (Hijab) during her mission in Islamic Republic. Livia Leu Agosti arrived in Iran this week as Berne’s woman in …
Read More »Iran Voices Dismay at Launching BBC Persian TV Service
TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian official on Wednesday voiced dismay at launching British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Persian TV service. “Launching BBC Persian service TV is detrimental to Iranian national security” Intelligence Minister Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeie as said. He warned that Tehran would take “necessary measures” to thwart the plan. …
Read More »Iran to Build 5mln Barrel Storage Tanks to Boost Storage
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s storage capacity will raise by 25% once construction work of new storage tanks in Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf is complete, a senior Iranian oil official said. Managing Director of the Iranian Oil Terminals Company Mousa Souri said that construction work of the planned 5 million-barrel …
Read More »Quake Hits Southeastern Iran
TEHRAN (FNA)- An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale jolted Iran’s southeastern province of Kerman on Wednesday. There are yet no reports on the number of possible casualties or damage to properties by the quake. Iran is criss-crossed with fault lines and is regularly hit by earthquakes, experiencing at …
Read More »Iran’s Security Chief to Meet Qatari Emir
TEHRAN (FNA)- Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Saeed Jalili arrived in Doha on Wednesday to deliver a message from President Ahmadinejad to Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani on the current conditions in the Gaza Strip. During his stay in the Qatari capital, Jalili is …
Read More »Larijani, Erdogan Discuss Gaza Crisis
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani attended a meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss the Gaza crisis. Larijani arrived in Turkey on Tuesday to attend an emergency meeting of the Islamic Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), which will be held in Istanbul later today. At the meeting, …
Read More »Iran Keen to Bolster Ties with Switzerland
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki called for further expansion of relations between Iran and Switzerland. Mottaki made the remarks in a meeting with Switzerland’s new ambassador to Tehran Livia Leu Agoati after he received the diplomat’s credentials. He described Tehran-Bern relations as centuries-old, saying that an expansion in …
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