Iran

TEHRAN (FNA)- Baghdad Mayor Saber al-Aisawi has asked Iranian firms’ help to upgrade level of municipal services in the capital.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran plans to invest in an oil refinery in Zimbabwe to supply fuel to the southern Africa region, Tehran’s ambassador to Harare said Wednesday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim al-Thani here Thursday submitted to an Iranian top official the Qatari Emir’s message to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei.

TEHRAN (FNA)- While President George W. Bush’s trips to Iraq have been brief and surrounded by secrecy, a visit by Iran’s president on Sunday is being heralded with much fanfare, raising US concerns it will erode American influence in the region.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran and the United States are to agree on a new date for a fourth round of talks on Iraq by mid-March, the Iraqi foreign minister said on Friday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iraqis are excitedly awaiting a Sunday visit by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the first by an Iranian head of state since the 1979 revolution.

TEHRAN (FNA)- France and Britain have again delayed a UN Security Council vote on a new round of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, Western diplomats said.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Criticisms of Iran’s uranium enrichment program seem hypocritical as Iran is doing exactly what several private companies are doing in the US.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Tehran’s provisional Friday Prayers leader Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati said Friday that the IAEA Chief Mohammad ElBaradei’s February 22 Iran report is a “solid evidence of Iranian nation’s righteousness and of the US failure.”

TEHRAN (FNA)- South Africa protested a “rush” by the five veto-wielding Security Council members to adopt new United Nations sanctions against Iran, saying it wants to wait for a report from the UN nuclear agency later this month.