Iran

Secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council Mohsen Rezayee proposed that Muslim countries establish a union under the title of Arab Asia in order to achieve regional convergence.

Japan said Thursday it was working with Tehran to free a 23-year-old Japanese university student kidnapped by suspected bandits as he traveled alone in southeastern Iran.

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said the country’s political establishment should be open to criticism.

Total SA Chief Executive Christophe de Margerie, in an interview with Le Monde newspaper, has affirmed that his company will continue to work in Iran and Myanmar despite pressure coming from government and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs).

China Nonferrous Metal Industry’s Foreign Engineering and Construction Company will co-build an alumina plant in Iran with annual capacity of 200,000 tons, it said in a company filing on Thursday.

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.