Iran

If Mr. Bush has any power, he’d better spend it on the establishment of security and freedom inside his country, Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel said pointing to the recent manslaughter at Virginia Tech University.

Islamic Republic army started a public display of the drones it has specifically designed for electronic warfare during a ceremony held at the mausoleum of the Founder of the Islamic Republic, the late Imam Khomeini, in southern Tehran on Wednesday to mark the ‘Army Day’.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country’s army serves regional peace and security while defending the security and territorial integrity of Iran.

A delegation of administrative officials from Iraq attended a meeting with officials of Iran’s Arvand Free Zone to discuss facilitation of possible grounds for investment of Iraqi traders in the said region.

Iran says the French oil giant, Total, will make its final decision on investment in Iran’s “Pars LNG” project in the next few months.

Iran’s crude oil revenues in the last Iranian calendar year reached $60b – with oil exports making up $51.15b of the mentioned amount.

At the end of his one-day working visit to Turkey, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki left Ankara for the Syrian capital of Damascus on Tuesday.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that after each resolution passed by the UN Security Council his country would display a new achievement in the field of nuclear technology.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini said here on Monday that the two Swedes who had been condemned to two years of imprisonment for violating the Islamic Republic’s law were released.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on western powers to treat Iran in a friendly manner, saying that such a behavior would serve their interests as well.