Iran

Iranian oil minister expressed the hope that the final contract for the export of Iran’s gas to Pakistan and India through a multi-billion dollar pipeline – known as IPI pipeline – would be signed by the leaders of the three states in the near future.

We do not need to import parts of F14 from the US, rather we are now striving to manufacture the 5th generation of fighter jets domestically, Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said here on Monday.

A new oil field was explored in the central parts of Iran, an informed source said on Monday.

Iran and Morocco issued a joint stamp on Monday which bears Falak-ol-Aflak Citadel in Lorestan province as its theme, an Iranian official said.

A trilateral committee formed by representatives of Iran, US and Iraq started its meeting Monday morning, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini said.

Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said that his country has started industrial manufacture of its indigenous Azarakhsh fighter jet which conducted a successful test flight yesterday.

Iraqi leaders are due to convene in a session in the near future to explore possible ways to end the present crisis, resolve the problems and revise the country’s Constitution.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, heading a high-ranking delegation, left Tehran for Algeria this morning.

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on Monday said he hoped for the success of talks between Iran and the United States on establishing security and stability in Iraq.

A Christian opposition candidate narrowly won a by-election to Lebanon’s parliament in a result that seemed set to further complicate a 9-month-old political crisis.  In the latest showdown between Prime Minister Fouad Siniora’s Western-backed government and its opponents, tens of thousands of Lebanese voted in by-elections on Sunday triggered by …