Iran

The following is the full text of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s address at the 62nd meeting of the UN General Assembly in New York.

Iran said Sunday its nuclear activities have not halted or slowed down, rejecting reports that it has not significantly expanded its uranium enrichment program this summer as planned.

OPEC’s second largest producer Iran is making a drastic cut in gasoline imports through rationing and expects to save nearly $3 billion in this Iranian year, a top Iranian oil official said on Tuesday.

Some OPEC members began pumping more crude well ahead of their decision earlier this month to increase output, Iran’s OPEC governor said.

After attending the Assembly of the United Nations Organization (UN), in New York, United States, and after his official journey to Bolivia, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, will visit Venezuela for a few hours.

Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared Tuesday that Iran’s disputed nuclear program is “closed” as a political issue and said Tehran will ignore U.N. Security Council demands and sanctions imposed by “arrogant powers” to curb its nuclear program.

Western banks withdrawing from Iran would not be welcome back, the Islamic Republic’s central bank governor warned on Tuesday, calling their behavior unprofessional and immoral.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the UN General Assembly Tuesday that his nuclear standoff with the West was a “closed” matter.

Seven chancellors and presidents of Iranian universities and research centers, in a letter addressed to their counterpart in the US Colombia University, denounced Lee Bollinger’s insulting words against the Iranian nation and president and invited him to provide responses for 10 questions of the Iranian academicians and intellectuals.

Proposed by foreign minister and approved by the president, Ibrahim Rahimpour was appointed as Iran’s ambassador to Ireland.