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TEHRAN (FNA) Iran’s oil trade is unaffected by West’s banking pressure and the country is exporting just over 2.4 million barrels per day of crude, a senior Iranian oil official said yesterday.
Read More »Suicide attack on Pakistani police kills 22
LAHORE, Pakistan – A suicide bomb attack killed at least 22 people, most of them policemen, in Pakistan on Thursday, deepening a sense of insecurity weeks before an election that could weaken President Pervez Musharraf’s grip on power.
Read More »U.S. warplanes pound Baghdad’s southern outskirts
BAGHDAD – U.S. warplanes dropped 40,000 pounds of bombs on more than 40 targets on Baghdad’s southern outskirts on Thursday in a major strike on al Qaeda safe havens, the military said in a statement.
Read More »Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Frequent: Elections a Sign of Islamic Republic’s Populist System
TEHRAN (FNA) Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said massive participation of the public in 28 state elections since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran (in 1979) has proved the populist system of the Islamic Republic.
Read More »IRGC Commander: Pentagon Video on Iran-US Confrontation a Clumsy Fake
TEHRAN (FNA) A senior commander in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) dismissed Pentagon’s so-called documented footages claiming to show Iranian speedboats swarming US ships in the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, describing it as a “clumsy fabrication”.
Read More »ElBaradei Hopes to Resolve All Issues between Iran, IAEA
TEHRAN (FNA) A spokeswoman for the International Atomic Energy Agency Wednesday said that the UN nuclear watchdog chief, Mohamed ElBaradei is hopeful about resolving all issues remaining between Iran and IAEA during his upcoming visit to Tehran.
Read More »US Claims about Persian Gulf Confrontation a Plot against Iran
TEHRAN (FNA) Iran’s defense minister dismissed White House claims about a hostile confrontation between Iranian and US navy vessels in the Persian Gulf, describing US allegations as a plot to make regional and world countries fearful of Iran.
Read More »ElBaradei’s Iran Visit Aims to Resolve Remaining Issues
TEHRAN (FNA) Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Alireza Sheikh Attar said that an upcoming visit to Tehran by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohamed ElBaradei will be aimed at resolving the issues remaining between the two sides.
Read More »Iran’s Embassy Appeals for Incident in Persian Gulf not to be Exaggerated
TEHRAN (FNA) Iran’s Embassy in Baku said that the incident which took place with the US military ship in Persian Gulf was nothing “extraordinary”, and dismissed Washington’s allegations about the incident.
Read More »Italy’s Edison Wins Oil, Gas Exploration Bid in Iran
TEHRAN (FNA) Edison SpA, Italy’s second biggest power generator, has won a bid to explore for oil and gas in Iran.
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