Iran

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on a visit to Tehran on Monday that the “empire of the dollar is crashing,” one day after his country and anti-US ally

The International Atomic Energy Agency’s 35-nation Board of Governors is due to discuss a recent report by the IAEA Director General, Mohamed ElBaradei on Iran’s nuclear activities later this week, a spokesman of the UN nuclear watchdog agency said.

Iran’s Ambassador to Cambodia Seyed Javad Ghavam Shahidi voiced Tehran’s preparedness to assist Phnom Penh in developing and renovating the country, in oil, gas and petrochemical sectors in particular.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki will visit Doha later this week to discuss the nuclear issue with Qatari authorities, Iranian Ambassador Mohamed Taher Rabbani said on Sunday.

Proposed by foreign minister and approved by the president, Mohammad Reza Bakhtyari was appointed as Iran’s ambassador to South Korea.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in an article published in the Thai paper ‘The Nation’ presented his country’s views about world peace and security, and further elaborated on Iran’s nuclear policies.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived on a lightning visit to Iran on Monday, the latest evidence of the burgeoning ties between the two states.

Kosovo Albanians who fought Serbia for independence eight years ago seem disillusioned as their dream nears fulfillment and the reality sinks in that prosperity is going to take years of work.

Iranian president and Indonesian vice-president discussed bilateral relations and exchanged views about the oil policies of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) member states in a meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Sunday.

Iran’s ambassador to Tirana conferred with Albania’s Central Bank governor about expansion of mutual cooperation and promotion of banking relations.