Iran

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the enemies plotted to abduct and assassinate him during his recent visit to Iraq in March. Addressing a meeting of clerics in the holy city of Qom, Ahmadinejad noted that the plot was foiled because of last-minute changes in his schedule.

The Jundallah terrorist group claims to have murdered two of the sixteen Iranian police officers who were taken hostage on June 12.

Iran’s nuclear envoy says Tehran will continue to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) but will not halt uranium enrichment.

TEHRAN, June 15 (MNA) – The 29th summit of the 12 member states of the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) will be opened on June 17 in the city of Isfahan, Mehr reported on Sunday.

TEHRAN, June 15 (MNA) — Jam Petrochemical Complex’s Tenth olefin project, the world’s largest of its kind, will be officially inaugurated on Tuesday in Assaluyeh region, southern Iran, in a ceremony attended by President Mahmud Ahmadinejad.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday refused to back down over his country’s nuclear program, stressing that Tehran may not give up even an iota of its rights.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian police and the Foreign Ministry on Wednesday denied claims by Iraq’s ambassador to Tehran that a bomb was found at his residence.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Indonesia has asked Iran to reduce import duties on commodities such as crude palm oil, rubber, fiber and paper by 50 percent.

TEHRAN (FNA)- EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said in Brussels Wednesday that he hopes his forthcoming trip to Iran would restart the process for settling the Iranian nuclear issue.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The European Union postponed a decision on whether to remove an armed Iranian opposition group from its blacklist of terrorist organizations, diplomats said on Wednesday, ahead of a visit to Iran by its foreign policy chief Javier Solana.