Middle Orient News

AMMAN (Reuters) – Iraq’s humanitarian crisis has worsened, and decades of conflict and deteriorating basic services are reducing people’s ability to cope with the hardships they face, a senior U.N. aid official said on Monday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel urged Muslims to boycott Dutch goods in response to a film by a far-right Dutch politician that insults Islamic values and links the holy Koran to violence.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is slated to visit Natanz nuclear facility on the occasion of the National Day of Nuclear Technology.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad received the new Thai ambassador to Tehran, Suwit Saicheua, in a meeting here on Sunday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Young Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr will be sidelined from politics unless he disbands his militia, Iraqi premier Nuri al-Maliki warned on Monday as fresh fighting erupted in Baghdad.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari stressed here Saturday night that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will neither increase nor decrease production in order to keep oil prices at 100 US dollars per barrel.

TEHRAN (FNA)- US President George W. Bush thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday for Moscow’s efforts to help ease alleged international concerns about Iran’s nuclear program.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Dana Gas said yesterday it would start to receive the much-delayed natural gas supplies from Iran in mid 2008, although Tehran has remained silent over earlier statements by the UAE company that deliveries would start soon.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said global problems can only be resolved if the followers of monotheistic faiths work together to overcome them.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini said that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to disclose new achievements in the country’s nuclear program on Tuesday.