Iran

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran will continue cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog within the framework of the Safeguards Agreement, a top nuclear official said.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran and Turkey are to move forward with negotiations on a major agreement on the transport of natural gas, following Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Istanbul last week.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran cut its crude sales to North Asia by 26 percent compared with the first quarter, and 21 percent versus a year ago.

TEHRAN (FNA)- India’s Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemicals Ltd will sell an extra 210,000 tons of diesel by December to Iran, which is boosting imports ahead of heavy refinery maintenance works this year, its managing director said on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran has negotiated around $4.5 billion in joint ventures in the petrochemical and energy sector during the past three years, an oil industry official said.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Keyhan manager Hossein Shariatmadari examined the Russian-Georgian conflict in an editorial in the Persian daily headlined One piece of news and a lesson to learn.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft, displayed earlier this year, is named after a mythical Iranian bird, Simorgh.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran has launched its plan for building more nuclear power plants, a senior nuclear official said here on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- India’s Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) will sell an additional 210,000 tons of diesel to Iran by December, Managing Director R. Rajamani said Tuesday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran on Tuesday said that a home-built rocket sent into space will be able to take a satellite into low orbit around the earth.