Iran

Some 18,000 German nationals have become Muslims since 1945, the daily Cologne-based Koelnische Rundschau newspaper quoted the Islam-Archive Central Institute, based in the western town of Soest.

The visiting Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Dr Mahdi Safari on Thursday gave an update to Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri on Tehran’s ongoing negotiations with the European Union and the IAEA regarding its nuclear program.

Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said Tehran and Moscow have come to a good understanding on the completion of Iran’s first nuclear power plant in the southern city of Bushehr.

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei ruled out claims made by western media about wide gaps and war of power in Iran’s Experts Assembly.

Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani warned that if western countries rock the boat, progress in nuclear talks would be endangered.

Caretaker of Iran’s Industries and Mines Ministry Mehrabian here Thursday conferred with Bolivia’s visiting Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca Cespedes about expansion of industrial and mining relations and cooperation between the two countries.

A foreign vessel smuggling 300 thousand liters of fuel was stopped and confiscated by Iranian law enforcement police in the country’s southern port city of Minab.

Iran and Belarus Wednesday signed a deal worth an initial 250 million dollars to develop an oil field in southwest Iran, the latest sign of the expanding relationship between the two US foes.

Japanese firm Nippon Oil is to start paying for Iranian oil in yen, rather than in US dollars.

An earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale jolted the outskirts of the city of Fathabad in Iran’s southern province of Fars on Wednesday.