Iran

TEHRAN (FNA)- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appointed the Central Bank of Iran General Secretary Mahmoud Bahmani as CBI’s new governor.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday on the sidelines of the 63rd session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Monday called for expansion of all-out ties between Tehran and Prague.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad described those states seeking to acquire nuclear weapons as “politically backward”.

TEHRAN (FNA)- An Iranian educational complex on Tuesday started its operation in Turkmenistan in presence of 120 Iranian and foreign students.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The director of the Iranian National Tax Administration here on Tuesday announced that the value added tax (VAT) law has been enforced as of September 22.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Former President Seyed Mohammad Khatami said he would run in the presidential elections in Iran next year if he is convinced that his candidacy has a dramatic effect on the ongoing trend of developments.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s resistance against bullying powers has given rise to new movements all around the world, Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces Major General Hassan Firouzabadi said on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO) is searching for more documents to enable the country to win the court case against the University of Chicago on the matter of the Achaemenid tablets.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Garden of Inscriptions is to exhibit 5000-year-old petroglyphs in a bid to offer insight into the chronological evolution of script.