Iran

TEHRAN (FNA)- Pakistan signed an agreement with Iran to import 1,000 megawatts of electricity to overcome the power shortage in the country and Iran would finance the project’s completion, a senior official in Pakistan’s Water and Power Ministry said on Sunday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- OPEC members should keep oil output within the group’s agreed targets, OPEC’s President Chakib Khelil said in remarks published on Monday.

Central Bank of Iran says rising inflation in recent years has intensified the need for a change in the nation’s currency system.

 Iran’s Defense Ministry has announced plans to make public details of the latest developments in the country’s weapons arsenal.

KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan authorities were checking on Sunday reports more than a dozen civilians were killed by a foreign forces air strike in an area to the northeast of the capital, an official said.

TEHRAN, (ISNA)-Iran will do its best to provide Iraq’s security vital for the country’s development, said Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili as meeting prime minister of Iraq’s Kurdish regional government Nechirvan Barzani.

TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (ISNA)-Iran in its letter to the EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana has said it is ready to give an appropriate response to 5+1 countries’ offer as soon as possible.

TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (ISNA)-Iran’s foreign ministry deputy Manouchehr Mohammadi said the Islamic Republic of Iran’s everlasting approach is on the basis of respect for territorial integrity of all countries.

TEHRAN, (ISNA)-Iran’s president senior adviser Samare Hashemi said the Zionist regime letter of objection to Turkish government over Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visit to Istanbul is “of no value.”

TEHRAN, (ISNA)-Iran’s defense minister Mustafa Mohammad Najjar said on Sunday that making new weapons in Iran will boost Islamic Republic’s authority.