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TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has arrived in South Korea on the first leg of a five-nation Asian tour that will also take him to Japan, China, Thailand and Vietnam. Annan was hoping to ease regional tensions in Asia where divisions over its bitter past have …

TEHRAN (Reuters) — Iran said on Sunday it would reject any demand to stop what it calls peaceful nuclear work, a day before Europe’s foreign ministers discuss incentives and penalties designed to rein in Tehran’s atomic ambitions.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s letter to US President George W. Bush   Translated by “Le Monde”   May 8, 2006           Mr George Bush, President of the United States of America   For sometime now I have been thinking, how one can justify the undeniable contradictions …

CAIRO — Iran’s president threw a deft trump card into his standoff with the West on Monday when he dispatched a letter to US President George W. Bush proposing “new solutions” to the crisis — a diplomatic overture that vastly complicates US hopes for UN Security Council sanctions to punish …

BAKU (Azerbaijan), May 4: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Thursday held in-depth discussions with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad covering the gas pipeline project, Iran’s nuclear issue, situation in the region and bilateral matters.

Russia and China have criticised a UN Security Council draft resolution on Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Russia says the draft needs rewriting with stronger emphasis put on building confidence between Iran and the UN.

TEHRAN (AP) — Iran’s hard-line parliament threatened Sunday to pass legislation that would force the government to withdraw from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty — a move that would put Tehran in company with North Korea — as the United States and its allies pressed for a UN Security Council vote …

TEHRAN, April 29–The Fifth Iran-Qatar Cooperation Commission convened here Saturday in the presence of Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and Qatar’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Ahmad Abdallah Al-Mahmud respectively.

TEHRAN, April 29–Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said on Saturday dismissed the US State Department’s annual report listing countries that support terrorism. According to IRNA, Asefi added that the US administration has named countries, which oppose its policies and criticize the crimes of the Zionist Israeli regime, as supporters …

Ankara, April 29, IRNA Iran-Turkey-Exchange The volume of trade exchanges between Iran and Turkey reached more than 1.144 billion dollars during the first three months of 2006, showing a near 37 percent increase compared to figures released for the same period in the previous year.