Iran

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian government is planning to sell off up to a quarter of the state owned telecoms operator, Telecommunications Company of Iran (TCI).

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iraqi president Jalal Al Talabani is in the United States to receive medical treatment, but he will make time during his journey to follow up secret talks with American officials on the Iranian nuclear issue, sources from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, headed by Al Talabani, said.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The leader of a terrorist group responsible for a string of attacks in southeastern Iran said in an interview broadcast on Thursday that he was ready to enter talks with the Tehran government.

TEHRAN (FNA)- India this afternoon withdrew its permission for a North Korean plane to overfly Indian airspace on its way to Iran, just before it could take off from Mandalay in Myanmar where it had made a stopover.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran sign a grant agreement with the Lebanese Council for Development and Reconstruction to help the Council repair the road between Naqoura and Marjayoun in southern Lebanon.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The second man of United Nations nuclear watchdog agency began talks with Iranian officials in Tehran on Thursday over the country’s nuclear program.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with a group of journalists and media people here in Tehran Thursday night to honor Journalists’ Day (August 7).

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran is willing to share nuclear technology for peaceful purposes with Sri Lanka, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Philippine air panel has sealed the country’s first ever air services agreement with Iran in anticipation of an increase in demand for Mideast-bound flights.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The UN atomic watchdog’s deputy director general, Olli Heinonen, arrived in Tehran on Thursday for two days of talks on Iran’s nuclear program, a source in the Iranian atomic energy organization said.