Iran

TEHRAN (FNA)- Air Arabia, the first and largest low-cost carrier (LCC) in the Middle East and North Africa, announced that it will launch service to Shiraz, Iran, beginning June 25, 2008.

TEHRAN (FNA)- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday the new game western powers have started in the nuclear standoff with Iran would bring them nothing but humiliation.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran and Cuba concluded their 13th joint cooperation commission meeting by signing a memorandum of understanding to bolster cooperation.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Russia’s Gazprom Neft the oil arm of gas monopoly Gazprom plans to acquire new assets and therefore cannot yet predict its dividends in 2008, the firm’s head said on Friday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Major crude oil producer Iran said on Friday that increased oil output would not affect skyrocketing prices after a statement by Saudi Arabia revealed that the kingdom would pump more crude to market.

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.