Iran

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran has earned 3.314 billion dollars through exports of petrochemical products in the first eight months of its current year (started March 21, 2007).

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel said on Wednesday that Iran will continue its talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the European Union (EU).

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The Indian government, which is already facing an attack over bending to the US on the nuclear deal, has denied that US pressure is preventing it from going ahead with the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline project.

Sri Lanka’s president secured 1.5 billion dollars worth of financial aid from Iran for infrastructure projects while on a three-day visit to the country, his office said on Wednesday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran said on Wednesday to have built a submarine equipped with sonar-evading technology, saying the craft had been launched in the Persian Gulf.

Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are set on Thursday to finish sealing uranium fuel that Russia intends to send to Iran’s first atomic power station, a Russian nuclear official said.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A senior commander in Iran’s naval force said the country’s navy enjoys the required capabilities to respond to any possible military aggression against Iran’s territorial waters with an iron feast.

Iran’s Intelligence Minister Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ezhehee said that his ministry would disclose contents of a case publicly known here in Iran as the nuclear spy case if the judiciary power issued the required permission.

Chances of a breakthrough appear slim when Iran’s main nuclear negotiator meets Europe’s top diplomat on Friday in a last effort to avert tougher sanctions over Tehran’s disputed atomic program.

The commander of coalition forces in two volatile Baghdad neighborhoods says Shiite splinter groups backed by Iran are continuing their attacks, in spite of a reduction of violence in the area by mainstream Shiite groups and mostly-Sunni al-Qaida.