Iran

Former head of Iran’s team of nuclear negotiators Ali Larijani said that “new and constructive ideas” had emerged during talks in Rome on Tehran’s nuclear program.

Iranian caretaker Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari here Wednesday expressed hope the peace pipeline contract would be signed by the three parties – Iran, Pakistan, and India.

The Qatari football Association announced that it is hoping to arrange a friendly match with Iran next month.

Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki here Thursday stressed that without the recognition of Iran’s rights, a blur prospect would be waiting for the nuclear talks between Tehran and West.

SYDNEY (AFP) — Europe should deploy more troops to the dangerous southern regions of Afghanistan, Australia’s foreign minister said Friday as the country mourned its second soldier killed there in three weeks. Alexander Downer said Australia would welcome forces from NATO’s European members joining them in southern Afghanistan, the former …

  Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Tuesday that Iran’s controversial nuclear program is “a major issue for the entire world” and called for stronger sanctions against Tehran.

  Iran will not retreat “one iota” from its nuclear program, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said, as his new chief negotiator met Western diplomats for the first time.

Iran is scheduled to start export of the latest model of its home-manufactured passenger car ‘Samand’ to 32 different countries, said Manouchehr Manteqi, Managing Director of Iran-Khodro car manufacturing company, manufacturer of Samand passenger car.

Deputy head of Iran’s judiciary here Tuesday called on the world’s independent legal and judicial bodies to form a war tribunal to punish the United States’ warmongering ruling party for its crimes.

Tehran and Islamabad have prepared the final version of an agreement for transferring Iran’s gas to Pakistan via a $7.4 bln pipeline, Iran’s top negotiator said.