Iran

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad received the new Thai ambassador to Tehran, Suwit Saicheua, in a meeting here on Sunday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Young Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr will be sidelined from politics unless he disbands his militia, Iraqi premier Nuri al-Maliki warned on Monday as fresh fighting erupted in Baghdad.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari stressed here Saturday night that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will neither increase nor decrease production in order to keep oil prices at 100 US dollars per barrel.

TEHRAN (FNA)- US President George W. Bush thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday for Moscow’s efforts to help ease alleged international concerns about Iran’s nuclear program.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Dana Gas said yesterday it would start to receive the much-delayed natural gas supplies from Iran in mid 2008, although Tehran has remained silent over earlier statements by the UAE company that deliveries would start soon.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said global problems can only be resolved if the followers of monotheistic faiths work together to overcome them.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini said that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to disclose new achievements in the country’s nuclear program on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United Arab Emirates will establish the first joint high political commission in Tehran this week, Iran’s envoy to Abu Dhabi said.

Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini on Wednesday blasted US President George W. Bush’s “antagonistic” claims on Iran’s missile capabilities and said the statements in Bucharest summit of the military alliance are examples of the US government’s “desperate and opportunistic” attempt to destabilize the Middle East region.