Iran

Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said Tehran and Moscow have come to a good understanding on the completion of Iran’s first nuclear power plant in the southern city of Bushehr.

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei ruled out claims made by western media about wide gaps and war of power in Iran’s Experts Assembly.

Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani warned that if western countries rock the boat, progress in nuclear talks would be endangered.

Caretaker of Iran’s Industries and Mines Ministry Mehrabian here Thursday conferred with Bolivia’s visiting Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca Cespedes about expansion of industrial and mining relations and cooperation between the two countries.

A foreign vessel smuggling 300 thousand liters of fuel was stopped and confiscated by Iranian law enforcement police in the country’s southern port city of Minab.

Iran and Belarus Wednesday signed a deal worth an initial 250 million dollars to develop an oil field in southwest Iran, the latest sign of the expanding relationship between the two US foes.

Japanese firm Nippon Oil is to start paying for Iranian oil in yen, rather than in US dollars.

An earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale jolted the outskirts of the city of Fathabad in Iran’s southern province of Fars on Wednesday.

Iran and Singapore underlined the need to bolster joint investments, and called for direct relations between the two countries’ banks and financial institutes.

Poland’s ambassador to Tehran here Wednesday welcomed privatization of state-owned industries and companies in Iran, and viewed it as an excellent opportunity for expanding Tehran-Warsaw economic ties and cooperation.