Iran

TEHRAN (FNA)- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad referred to ongoing economic crisis in the United States here Saturday, adding, “World nations should remain alert and negate U.S. plans for new round of looting nations aimed at saving the ailing U.S. economy.”

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki says US hegemony is teetering on the brink of collapse as new global powers begin to emerge.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Ambassador to Baghdad Hassan Kazemi Qomi said on Saturday that the western countries are quite well aware that Iran never yields to bullying powers and that adoption of such policies against Iran does not bear any fruit.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Ministry on Sunday summoned the British ambassador, Jeffrey Adams, to protest over the release of Fozi Badavinejad, the ringleader of a group which attacked Iran’s embassy in London in 1980 and killed two Iranian diplomats.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Prominent Reformist cleric Mehdi Karroubi says President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s comment on the Holocaust has cost Iran an arm and a leg.

TEHRAN (FNA)- World figures will convene in Tehran to attend ‘Religion in the Modern World’ conference hosted by the Foundation for Dialogue among Civilizations.

TEHRAN (FNA)- New York is displaying examples of Persian calligraphy in the ‘Traces of the Calligrapher’ and ‘Writing the Word of God’ exhibitions.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Vice President for Media Affairs Mehdi Kalhor said on Saturday that Iran has set two preconditions for holding talks with the United States of America.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran denied a recent report alleging that a $2 billion gas deal was signed by the National Iranian Gas Company and the UAE’s Crescent Petroleum on Friday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The second seminar to introduce Iran’s saffron and medicinal herbs was held at the Ferdowsi Hall of the Iranian Embassy in Tokyo on Saturday.