Iran

TEHRAN (FNA)- Some 20 Iranian companies will participate in the India International Trade Fair (IITF) 2008 on Nov. 14 at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The head of the UN nuclear watchdog said on Tuesday US President-elect Barack Obama’s stated readiness for dialogue with Iran without preconditions could help resolve the nuclear standoff between the West and Tehran.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan voiced his country’s preparedness to mediate between the new Obama administration and Iran.

TEHRAN (FNA)- US President-elect Barack Obama is planning to involve Iran in a major shift in United States’ policy on the war in Afghanistan.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The world countries have welcomed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s congratulatory message to US President-elect Barack Obama, Iranian Foreign Ministry said.

TEHRAN (FNA)- An Iranian Sunni prayer leader was gunned down in front of a mosque in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Wagon Pars Company has planned to export €25 million worth of wagons to Cuba and China by the end of the current Iranian year (March 20, 2009), the company’s managing director Gholam Reza Razzazi said here on Monday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Close to 15 tons will be added to the country’s gold reserves by the end of current year (March 2009), said director of exploitation affairs at the National Geology and Mineral Exploration Organization.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran said on Monday that the Mideast quartet meeting in the Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, spelled the failure of the Annapolis peace initiative launched last year by the Bush administration.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran will study the freeze for freeze offer if it did not include suspension of uranium enrichment, a Foreign Ministry official said on Monday.