Iran

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.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iraq’s ambassador to Tehran Mohammad Majid Al-Shaikh said that no country is ready to accept the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO).

TEHRAN (FNA)- Measures adopted by some powers in Afghanistan have triggered the nation’s concern on radicalism and will only create a new wave of extremism in the region, Iran’s ambassador to the UN said.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is likely to hold an emergency meeting before December.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Parliament on Sunday approved a bill allowing Iran to participate in the operation and management of the International Satellite System for Search and Rescue (Cospas-Sarsat).

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian energy officials departed Tehran for Kuwait to discuss the daily transfer of 500 billion cubic feet of gas to the Arab emirate.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran has not yet received any formal request from Washington for opening a US interest section in Tehran, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hassan Qashqavi said here on Monday.