Iran

TEHRAN (FNA)- Lebanese Christian political leader Michel Aoun said on Monday that Iran was helping Lebanon to achieve national unity.

TEHRAN (FNA)- An Iranian maritime official said that the Islamic Republic is leading in the Middle East in terms of observing and promoting maritime standards.

TEHRAN (FNA)- A looming global recession could make OPEC more tolerant of cheaper oil, but the group still needs to cut output by early next year to control swelling stocks and insure against a price collapse.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Consul General Saeed Kharazi called on the Chief Minister of Pakistan’s Punjab province, Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif, on Monday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi said Monday that Western states have no choice but to win Iranians’ trust on the country’s nuclear issue.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The head of the Iranian delegation to the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) High Level Committee (HLC) announced that the new cartel prepared a draft version of its charter at the recent HLC meeting in Caracas, Venezuela.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has urged outsiders to leave the Middle East, saying it would be the best choice before them.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Expediency Council Chairman Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on Saturday insisted on the need to institutionalize party system in the country as he said party system is the need of modern world.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Tehran says the ‘war on terror’ in Afghanistan has been counterproductive, adding that the US has only managed to increase tensions.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Secretary of Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili has expressed his concerns over the mounting instability in Afghanistan.