Iran

TEHRAN (FNA)- Former Iranian President Seyed Mohammad Khatami announced that he will not be a candidate in the upcoming presidential election.

BRUSSELS, Sept. 17 (UPI) — The Russian envoy to NATO suggested Wednesday the United States is planning to attack Iran through Georgia.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that the Caucasus does not need NATO interference in the region in the wake of the recent conflict in Georgia.

TEHRAN (FNA)- A former Pakistani official said Tehran and Islamabad are required to form a military alliance in a bid to thwart the plots hatched by the US against the two Muslim nations.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Tuesday that his country may not cut ties with Iran, reiterating that Tehran and Damascus would remain two strategic partners in the region.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s biggest petrochemical complex for PVC production in the southwestern province of Khuzestan has reached the pre-operation stage, an official said.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Zionist regime lacks the diplomatic, economic and social ability to launch a wide-scale war, a senior military advisor to the Iranian supreme leader said here on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The average price of Iran’s heavy crude oil went down by over $18 per barrel in August this year.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Defense Minister Mustafa Mohammad Najjar denied on Tuesday claims by western media that his country was running sleeper cells in the six Arab monarchies of the Persian Gulf.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran plans to offer a collective strategy to establish stability and security in the Caucasus, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said.