Iran

An earthquake measuring 3.6 on the Richter scale jolted the town of Haji Abad in the northeastern Iranian province of Southern Khorassan on Thursday.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that his country and Kyrgyzstan can enjoy extensive and unrestricted cooperation in different areas.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with his Kyrgyz and Tajik counterparts on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in the Kyrgyz capital city of Bishkek on Thursday.

Two Belgian tourists missing for days after a kidnapping in the southeastern Iran are free and in good health, Belgium’s foreign ministry said.

Iranian president in a meeting with his Chinese counterpart in Bishkek on Thursday stressed the two countries’ vast common grounds for mutual cooperation, reiterating that Tehran-Beijing relations would never be influenced by the pressures exerted by other countries.

Iran will not change its fuel rationing scheme and has no plans to offer extra gasoline outside quotas at a higher price, acting oil minister Gholamhossein Nozari has said.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed to boost cooperation with energy-rich Turkmenistan on Wednesday.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said a proposed US missile defense shield in central Europe would threaten “all Asia”.

First it was a tie up with Chrysler, then it was a surprise joint venture with Fiat – now it’s investing in Iran. Chery, the Chinese car manufacturer, is quite the globetrotter these days, and its first major auto venture in the Middle Eastern country looks like a smart move.

Europe’s scientific development is undoubtedly indebted to Muslim, and specially Iranian, scientists and scholars, Iran’s Expediency Council Chairman Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said.