Iran

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian energy minister said his country’s first nuclear power plant will be functional within three months, contradicting earlier claims by Russian company constructing plant that it won’t be operational before end of 2008.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran and Italian power company Edison are nearing agreement on a deal to pump more than a billion cubic feet of Iranian gas to Europe per day, the Iranian oil minister said on Sunday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad here Sunday voiced Tehran’s support for Zimbabwe’s independence and progress, and called for the utilization of all the ample potentials existing for the expansion of Tehran-Harare cooperation.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stressed that expansion of Tehran-Beijing all-out ties would serve the two nations’ interests as well as global peace and security, and warned against the plots hatched by the enemies of the two states’ consolidated ties.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A 30-member delegation of Iraq’s oil ministry officials and businessmen are slated to pay a visit to Iran to introduce the country’s investment opportunities in the oil sector.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran-Brazil Friendship Association in a meeting here on Sunday explored avenues for the expansion of the two countries’ relations.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran is a peace-loving country with an influential role in international equations, Thailand’s Foreign Minister Nit Phibunsongkhram said, stressing that Bangkok perceives no limit to the bolstering of cooperation with Tehran.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s outgoing ambassador to Bangkok Mohsen Pak Ayeen conferred with Thailand’s crown prince about expansion of the two countries’ relations.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad underlined affinity of the Iranian and Croatian nations, and viewed the two countries’ historical and cultural commonalities as desirable grounds for the establishment of consolidated and extensive relations between the two states.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The outgoing Iranian ambassador to Thailand expressed hope that Tehran-Bangkok relations would further develop in all the different fields, specially in political and economic grounds.