RIYADH (Reuters) — Iran asked Saudi Arabia to help ease tensions between the Islamic republic and the United States as Washington held out the possibility of “engagement” with Tehran if it changed tack in Iraq.
Read More »Iran says pressing ahead with expanded enrichment
TEHRAN (Reuters) — Iran said on Monday it was pressing ahead with a plan to install 3,000 atomic centrifuges and achieve industrial-scale production of nuclear fuel, which the West fears is part of a programme to make bombs.
Read More »Ahmadinejad guest of honour in Ecuador
QUITO (AFP) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be a guest of honour Monday at the inauguration of leftist Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa, who won an election late last year as a fervent critic of the United States.
Read More »Sudanese DM Meets Iranian Parliament Speaker
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Sudan’s visiting Defense Minister Field Marshal Abdel Rahim Mohammed Hussein met with Iran’s Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel here in Tehran on Sunday.
Read More »Landslide in Northern Iran
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A slow landslip which started in recent weeks in a highland region called 2000 in the vicinity of Tonekabon in northern Iran has deteriorated since Saturday, a local official said.
Read More »Iran Calls for Immediate Release of Diplomats
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran on Sunday called on the US troops to release the five Iranian diplomats who have been kidnapped during an earlier raid by the US forces on the Islamic Republic’s consulate general in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil.
Read More »Official Rejects Rumors about Iran-US Clash in Persian Gulf
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Deputy Governor General of Iran’s southern province of Hormuzgan strongly rejected rumors about eruption of clashes between Iranian and US battleships in the Persian Gulf.
Read More »Speaker Condemns US Raid on Iranian Consulate in Iraq
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian parliament speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel here on Sunday condemned the Thursday raid by the US military troops on Iran’s consulate general in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil.
Read More »Ahmadinejad, Chavez Stress Formation of Investment Fund
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s Ahmadinejad and Venezuela’s Chavez in Caracas on Sunday said they were decisive to establish a strategic investment fund.
Read More »Iran, Venezuela Ink 10 Cooperation Agreements
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Tehran and Caracas issued a joint statement and signed 10 cooperation agreements and Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) in various grounds on Saturday.
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