Iran

Iran is striving to find and release Imam Musa Sadr, said a member of the directing board of the Lebanese Amal movement, who took Libyan government responsible for the abduction of Sadr in 1979.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on officials to provide the required facilities and possibilities for hosting foreign tourists, saying that all the world nations are keen on visiting Iran.

An earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale jolted the southern parts of the city of Garmsar in Iran’s northern province of Semnan on Saturday.

Iran’s exports to Iraq will amount to $1.8 bln in 2007, an Iranian official said.

An earthquake measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale jolted Javad Abad in Tehran province on Saturday.

An earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale jolted the region of Arzou’eyeh in Iran’s southeastern province of Kerman on Saturday.

Officials at Amiantit Saudi Arabia said that the company and its joint venture partner SUBOR of Turkey have won a $31.5 million contract for the supply of Flowtite Glass Reinforced Polyester (GRP) pipes for the Eyn Khosh irrigation network which is part of Dasht-e-Abbas irrigation project in Iran.

Scientists at a Laboratory for the Conservation of Endangered Species (LaCONE) in Hyderabad are continuing their efforts to clone a rabbit and hope to get assistance from Iran to fulfill their ambitious goal – to clone a cheetah.

The Foreign Ministers of Pakistan and Iran Friday discussed a gas pipeline involving the two countries and India and hoped that the project would be completed soon.

Following the Untied States’ recent efforts to label the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist group, Iran’s Law Enforcement Police released a statement here on Friday to warn that the Islamic Republic’s armed forces would give a crushing response to the enemy.