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TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- OPEC, the producer of more than 40 percent of the world’s oil, will leave production unchanged at its meeting today, an official from a Persian Gulf state involved in the talks said.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tuesday accused the West of monopolizing power in world bodies, and proposed setting up an international Islamic court to try war criminals and other human rights violators.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The fourth round of US-Iranian talks on curbing violence in Iraq may take place in the next few days, powerful Iraqi Shiite leader Abdel Aziz al-Hakim said Tuesday at the end of a US visit.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday welcomed Tehran’s Cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A new US intelligence review that concludes Iran is pursuing a peaceful nuclear technology is consistent with the UN atomic watchdog agency’s own findings and “should help to defuse the current crisis”, the organization’s chief said Tuesday.

Iran and Saudi Arabia have signed an agreement worth 500 million euros to construct a combined cycle power plant in Heris, East Azerbaijan province.

Iranian Minister of Industries and Mines Ali Akbar Mehrabian here Monday held talks with the Turkish energy minister on the sidelines of the 12th annual conference of United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).

TEHRAN, Dec. 3 (MNA) — President Mahmud Ahmadinejad submitted 12 proposals meant to “reinforce brotherly ties” and “promote cooperation” among Persian Gulf littoral states at the 28th summit of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council in Doha on Monday.

The Lebanese government’s move to marginalize the Shias is the root cause of the Lebanese crisis, Fadi Saad of the opposition party Marada said on Sunday.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called on Tuesday for a U.S.-backed campaign to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions to continue despite a U.S. intelligence report that said Tehran had frozen its weapons program.