Iran

A Syrian source in Damascus on Wednesday ruled out the recent allegations made by Israeli media about the military objectives of the recent violation of the Syrian airspace by Israeli fighter planes.

Iran launched a highly advanced, high-speed cruise vessel, which has been made by its own experts, in the country’s southern waters in the Persian Gulf Wednesday morning.

Sri Lankan ambassador to Tehran called for the development of economic ties between his country and Iran.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will take a trip to Iran on October 16, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said.

Deputy Managing Director of a Russian telecommunication company voiced eagerness of his enterprise to make investments in Iran.

Syria dismissed reports that a visit to Suadi Arabia by its foreign minister had been cancelled, saying that no such visit had originally been on the working agenda of Walid Mualem.

Caretaker of the Iranian Oil Ministry Gholam Hossein Nozari said that his country would produce 5.3 bln barrels of oil per day by the year 2014.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini here Wednesday stressed that the testimony of the two US senior officials to the Congress on Iraq war would not rescue the United States from the Iraq quagmire.

Iranian officials said on Wednesday that Kian Tajbakhsh, an Iranian-American arrested on charges of harming national security earlier this year, would not be allowed to leave the country after he is released on bail.

A polymer update team member reported that the Islamic republic is slated to export petrochemical products amounting to 21 million tons in the current Iranian calendar year (March 21, 2007 to March 20, 2008).