Iran

TEHRAN (FNA)- Thirty percent of the increase in the price of oil is because of the decrease in the value of the dollar, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Turkey will increase its imports of gas from Iran to compensate for a reduction in supplies from Azerbaijan resulting from the conflict in Georgia, a senior source from the Turkish pipeline company Botas said on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said on Tuesday that the Iranian armed forces are ready to counter any surprise attack by the enemies with a crushing response.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The crisis over electricity failure grows as summer temperatures climb and a drought plagues Iraq, and it is where Iran enters to help Iraqis where the US has failed.

TEHRAN,  (ISNA)-Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi declared on Tuesday Iran’s top nuclear negotiator’s letter to the EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana was not Iran’s answer to the 5+1 countries’ package of incentives.

TEHRAN, (ISNA)-Iran president’s adviser Morteza Tamadon emphasized Tehran believes that there is nothing as a “stalemate for the nuclear talks” with the West.

TEHRAN,  (ISNA)-Iran’s defense minister Brigadier General Mustafa Mohammad Najar and the Algerian president Abdul- Aziz Bouteflika held a meeting on Monday.

TEHRAN, (ISNA)-Algeria’s president Abdul- Aziz Bouteflika and foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki conferred economy, industry, energy and major international issues on Monday.

TEHRAN,  (ISNA)-Iraqi deputy prime minister Barham Saleh will travel to Iran to hold three days of discussions on Tehran-Baghdad bilateral relations on Wednesday, reported an Iranian official.

TEHRAN,  (ISNA)-Iran’s Prosecutor General Qorban Ali Dorri Najafabadi declared on Tuesday that making decisions over Imam Mousa Sadr’s fate has been pretty vital for Iran over recent 3 decades.