Iran

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- An earthquake measuring 3.8 on the Richter scale jolted the district of Basmanj in the vicinity of Tabriz in Iran’s northwestern province of Eastern Azerbaijan on Sunday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran stressed that it would not accept any assignment or expectations beyond the law, alluding to the West’s call for a stop of its nuclear enrichment program.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a message to Traian Basescu on Sunday extended his congratulations to the Romanian president, government and nation on the country’s national day.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A prominent Iranian lawmaker said here on Sunday that an incoming report by EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana on Iran’s nuclear case will influence Tehran’s cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator and secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Saeed Jalili is scheduled to pay a visit to Moscow on Monday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is due to leave for Doha, Qatar on Monday to attend the summit of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC).

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran on Sunday said it hoped that the British government would not accept the decision by the Proscribed Organizations Appeal Commission in London to remove the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), from a list of banned terrorist organizations.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The UN nuclear watchdog has approved the quality of Russian nuclear fuel due to be delivered to an Iranian nuclear power plant.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Egypt has held talks with Iran over the possibility of importing Iranian wheat, and hopes to see a new phase in economic relations with the Islamic Republic, the Egyptian trade ministry said on Saturday.

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Further U.N. sanctions will not solve the row with the West over Iran’s disputed nuclear plans, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday, a day after six world powers discussed imposing new penalties on Tehran.