Iran

TEHRAN (FNA) – Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said the reason Western powers threaten Iran is that they are afraid of the nation’s determination.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iran’s parliament has approved a bigger budget for 2008-09 totaling the equivalent of $310 billion.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Japan underlined its support for Tehran’s cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

TEHRAN (FNA) – An earthquake, measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale, jolted a remote mountainous area in Iran’s central province of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiyari overnight.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iranian Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said the country’s long-awaited Oil Bourse will be inaugurated Sunday.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini expressed his country’s enthusiasm for having media cooperation with India.

TEHRAN (FNA) – A senior Iranian oil official said in remarks published on Thursday that oil prices would slide before the US presidential election in November but rise after that.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iranian Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said New Delhi has not been excluded from the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Producers of the book and film ‘Iran, Seven Faces of a Civilization’ were honored in a ceremony held at the Restoration and Renovation Research Center of the Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts Organization (CHTHO) on Wednesday.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iran summoned the Danish ambassador to Tehran in protest over the reprinting of cartoons of the Prophet of Islam by leading Danish newspapers.