Iran

Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Sunday said it is “impossible” for Tehran to yield to the key Western demand over its nuclear program, even if the UN Security Council imposes further sanctions.

The chief of the UN nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei will tell nations on its governing board this week Iran’s pledge of extra atomic transparency should be given a chance to work, not dismissed as a time-buying ruse.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini stressed his country’s insistence on the right to access civilian nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, underlining that Tehran has not changed its nuclear stances.

We are waiting for the inauguration of the largest nuclear power plant of the world of Islam, former head of Pakistan’s atomic energy organization said.

The first international conference on Reconstruction of Iraq’s Economy kicked off work here in Tehran on Sunday.

Head of Iran’s Assembly of Experts Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said his country is today enjoying proper economic and security conditions, and voiced Tehran’s preparedness to share experience with other nations, Iraq in particular.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called on his newly-appointed central bank governor to pay maximum care and attention to 8 crucial issues.

An earthquake measuring 3.2 on the Richter scale jolted the city of Sahneh in Iran’s western province of Kermanshah on Sunday.

Iran’s Agricultural Jihad Minister Mohammad Reza Eskandari said his country has joined the club of wheat exporting countries.

Iran said that a US federal court decision to fine Tehran $2 bln and 650 mln for the 1983 bombing of a Marine barracks in Beirut was “baseless” and aimed at plundering Iranian assets.