Iran

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran announced Monday it would ease gas rationing for the next month, allowing people to buy gasoline above the imposed limit during a major holiday, but at a higher price.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini announced that Tehran has never said it would not talk over its peaceful nuclear activities.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Swiss energy trading company EGL has signed a multibillion dollar contract to buy natural gas from Iran’s national gas producer over the next 25 years, the Swiss company announced Monday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- A giant petrochemical project in Iran, which will be a joint venture between Siam Cement Group and other companies will be one the largest such operations in the world.

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Twenty-two students were killed when their bus crashed with a fuel tanker and burst into flames in Iran’s southwest, Iranian media said on Sunday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad conferred with Switzerland’s visiting Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey about bilateral relations and cooperation as well as other issues of mutual interest in a meeting here in Tehran on Monday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Although winter is gone and the lush green Jungles, meadows, plains and lakes in different parts of the country are now ready to witness a return of the birds, these beautiful, but delicate, creatures of the God seemingly like to stay in the warm waters of the Persian …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran has called for Brazil’s state-run oil company Petrobras to become more active in its oil sector.

TEHRAN (FNA)- National Taiwan University Professor Wu Chung-chih has won the 21st Khwarizmi International Award (KIA) for Science and Technology from Iran for his study of organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) and technologies, making him the first Taiwanese ever to receive the award.

TEHRAN (FNA)- EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said Sunday that he hoped to meet Iran’s top nuclear negotiator within the next three months.