Iran

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.

The Islamic Republic of Iran and Azerbaijan will sign an agreement on mutual cooperation in protection of cultural heritage, Azeri Culture and Tourism Minister Abulfas Garayev said.

Iran Border Security forces Tuesday arrested 22 Pakistanis for illegally entering into Iran and handed them over to Taftan police, Taftan police sources said.

Iran will hike actual oil output to just over four million barrels per day (bpd) from November 1 in line with a deal at the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), a senior official said yesterday.

Iran has inaugurated a new air base near its eastern border with Afghanistan to protect against a possible strike by enemy forces operating in the neighboring country.

Iran has developed a new 2,000-pound (900-kilogram) smart bomb called ‘Ghadr’.

Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade demanded Iran to launch extensive business and industrial activities in the free trade zone of his country.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to pay a visit to Tehran next Monday to attend a summit of the Caspian Sea littoral states.

Iranian Parliament Speaker in a meeting with his Swiss counterpart complained that a wrong image of the Islamic Revolution has been presented in the West, and called on Switzerland, as an impartial state, to portray the correct image of the Iranian revolution in the West.

Delegations of Islamic countries participating in the 117th meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Geneva voiced their strong support for Iran’s opposition to a US Senate resolution which called for the disintegration of Iraq.