Iran

TEHRAN (FNA)- For 30 years, Parviz Tanavoli led a quiet life teaching sculpture and holding shows in his native Iran and abroad. That changed in April when a work sold for a record $2.84 million at an auction in Dubai.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s exports have increased by 39% this year, an official said.In the first four months of the current Iranian year (March 20-July 20) the value of the country’s exports have increased by 39 percent, head of the export commission of Iran’s Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Mines Asadullah …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s atomic energy scientists have developed nuclear apparatuses capable of producing crystal for nuclear and medical industry use.

TEHRAN, Aug. 22 (ISNA)-foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki urged the U.S. not to seek for illegitimate position and interest in the international arena.

TEHRAN, Aug. 22 (ISNA)-Afghanistan’s foreign minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta called for campaigning against drug trafficking and terrorism as closely-related issues.

TEHRAN, Aug. 22 (ISNA)-Iran’s foreign minister voiced condolences to his Spanish counterpart Miguel Angel Moratinos over the disastrous aircrash.

TEHRAN, Aug. 22 (ISNA)-Iran in the strongest terms condemns the terrorist act in Algeria that left plenty of innocent victims.

TEHRAN, Aug. 22 (ISNA)-Iran’s foreign minister deputy Ali Reza Sheikh Attar and an official in Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Maher al-Taher met in Tehran.

TEHRAN, Aug. 22 (ISNA)-Iran’s National Oil Company (INOC) managing director Seifollah Jashnsaz is officially invited by Chinese officials to trip to the country to expand energy cooperation.

TEHRAN, Aug. 22 (ISNA)-Pakistan’s prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani stressed signing Iran-Pakistan’s free trade agreement to raise bilateral commercial exchanges by one billion dollar.