Iran

Despite chummy embraces and warm words, the leaders of Russia and France could not agree on one of the diplomatic world’s most pressing questions, whether or not Iran’s nuclear program would remain peaceful.

What will happen if developing countries don’t have anything to export? This question will help us better understand the challenges that Iran will face during the next decade.

Egyptian parliament speaker described talks as the proper means of confrontation with the West, adding that the world countries should resort to negotiations to resolve their problems and to prevent US President George W. Bush from becoming another Neron.

A prominent Iranian lawmaker said here on Wednesday that the French government’s confused and weak system of diplomacy has pushed Paris into the adoption of hostile stances on Iran.

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Undersecretary Javad Vaeedi and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) deputy Director General Ollie Heinonen continued their talks about Iran’s P1 and P2 centrifuges here in Tehran on Wednesday.

We believe that unreal concerns about Iran’s peaceful nuclear programs are driven by political incentives, Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel told a Swiss television network.

The results of the current talks between Iranian and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts in Tehran on the issues related to the Islamic Republic’s P1 and P2 centrifuges will be announced late October, an informed source said.

An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale jolted some areas in the vicinity of the port city of Bandar Abbas in Iran’s southern province of Hormozgan on Wednesday.

Japanese oil refiners Cosmo Oil Co and Japan Energy Corp. have started paying Iran for crude oil imports in yen instead of dollars, company spokesmen said Tuesday.

According to statements made Sept. 27 by the Turkish Minister of Energy Hilmi Guler, Ankara and Tehran plan to sign an accord this month on the exploitation of the natural gas reserves of South Pars on the southern Iranian coast.