Iran

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.

TEHRAN, Aug. 22 (ISNA)-Iran and Kazakhstan are to finalize a new agreement to exchange goods and passengers through roads.

TEHRAN, Aug. 22 (ISNA)-Indonesian State Oil Company Pertamina will start to construct a joint oil refinery with Iran by late 2008 in its Benten province.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Space Organization chief Reza Taghipour Wednesday said Iran will send its first astronaut to space within the following decade.