Iran

TEHRAN (FNA)- A Tehran laboratory started to test 59 DNA samples of casualties of the plane crash, which happened on August 24, 2008 near the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Currently, the capacity of the state bandwidth is about 12,000 Mega bits and the efforts for expanding it to 15,000 Mega bits are being followed up rapidly, an Iranian official said.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told his Bolivian counterpart Evo Morales on Monday their two nations are natural allies and would boost energy ties.

TEHRAN (FNA)- An Iranian carmaker has struck a deal with Chery, the largest independent car company in China, to assemble 6,000 vehicles in 2009.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran is shipping the last load of heavy crude oil that was stored in tankers in the Persian Gulf to the Suez Canal for delivery to buyers, an oil ministry official said.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Spanta stressed that his country would continue economic, cultural, political and regional cooperation with Iran and Tajikistan.

TEHRAN (FNA)- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s special representatives in oil related affairs enacted Salman oil and gas field’s development plan in order to boost Iran’s natural gas, crude oil and gas condensates production capacity.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran has more than 85 billion barrels of recoverable heavy oil, an official said, suggesting about 60 per cent of the country’s reserves are of that crude category.

TEHRAN (FNA)- A number of 290 telecommunication projects were inaugurated in Esfahan Province on Saturday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Oil prices rose more than $1 on Monday after energy firms in the US Gulf shut down nearly all offshore oil output and a host of flood-prone coastal refineries ahead of Hurricane Gustav, the biggest threat since 2005’s devastating Katrina.