Iran

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pour-Dastan here Tuesday was assigned as the lieutenant commander of the Iranian army’s ground force.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned Jordan’s ambassador to Tehran to voice Iran’s strong protest at a series of biased statements recently made by the country’s officials in support of anti-Iran terrorist groups.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad here Tuesday communicated a law with the justice ministry requiring implementation of an agreement between Iran and Armenia on the extradition of criminals.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel is slated to visit Egypt in February, rapporteur of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said here on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) continued talks in Tehran on Tuesday to resolve differences remaining between the two sides about Iran’s nuclear programs.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A senior Iranian foreign ministry official voiced strong protest against Germany for imprisoning an Iranian national for 15 years.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Egypt’s deputy foreign minister is scheduled to arrive here in Tehran Tuesday night.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- An earthquake measuring 3.7 on the Richter scale jolted the town of Khesht in Iran’s southern province of Fars on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran aims to end gasoline rationing by March 2009 through expanding domestic production of fuel and encouraging the use of vehicles powered by natural gas, an Iranian oil official said on Monday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A senior Iranian military official here on Monday called on all peace movements, advocates of human rights and freedom as well as all those opposing war and terrorism to join Iran in a movement to take Bush to a war tribunal.