Middle Orient News

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Mostafa Mohammad Najjar warned of any Israeli attempt to carry out strike on Iran stressing that “Our response will have no time or geographical limit.”

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Alireza Sheikh Attar is slated to pay a visit to Azerbaijan on June 4.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran is constructing seven refineries in an effort to boost its crude and gas refining capacity by more than 1.5 million barrels per day (bpd), a senior oil official said Saturday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Cement production capacity has increased to 53 mln tons annually with the inauguration of the third production line of Sepahan Cement Factory in Isfahan, said Industries and Mines Minister Ali Akbar Mehrabian.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Tehran on Sunday confirmed the visit by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to attend the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) summit in Rome next week.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran on Saturday resumed supplying natural gas to Turkey five days after an explosion by a terrorist group in the Dogubeyazit town of Agri in eastern Turkey damaged a pipeline between the two countries.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran will not give up its right to enrich uranium, a senior Iranian official said on Saturday, days before major powers submit an upgraded package of incentives in an effort to incite Tehran to give up its right of uranium enrichment.

(IRNA) – The late Imam Khomeini’s opposition to the Zionist regime was not limited to a specific period of time, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Sunday. Mottaki made the remarks in his address to an international conference to commemorate father of the Islamic Revolution, the late Imam Khomeini.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said on Sunday Iran steers clear of Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan as he admitted that he made wrong statement against Iran in 2004.Speaking to reporters in his weekly press briefing, Hosseini said Qadeer Khan’s confession needs no clarification as he declared that his …

NASSIRIYA, Iraq (Reuters) – About 500 Australian combat troops pulled out of their base in southern Iraq on Sunday, fulfilling an election promise by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to bring the soldiers home this year. A British military spokesman in the southern city of Basra said the pullout from …