Middle Orient

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran has endured US sanctions for decades and its strategic oil industry will not be beaten by them now, a top Iranian oil official said on Sunday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has decided to introduce head of the Supreme Audit Court Mohammad Reza Rahimi as the country’s acting interior minister next week.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Shell has been warned by Iran that it must commit itself to developing a $10bn gas field in the Middle East country by June or risk the project being handed over to a rival.

TEHRAN (FNA)- National Iranian Gas Export Company Managing Director, Nasrollah Seifi said Iran would begin the first gas supplies to Switzerland in 2009.  

TEHRAN (FNA)- An Iranian official voiced Tehran’s willingness to share its technical expertise in the field of telecommunications with other countries.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s National Gas Exports Company said the Nabucco project to transfer gas from the Caspian Sea to Europe cannot succeed without Iran.

TEHRAN (FNA)- New Delhi’s National Security Advisor MK Narayanan today asked the international community to treat Tehran in consonance with its “tremendous influence”.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Commander of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s army said the country is equipped with highly sophisticated military equipment that has not yet been unveiled.

TEHRAN (FNA)- A top UN nuclear official arrived in Tehran on Monday for a further round of talks with Iran.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran will hold the second international congress on nanoscience and nanotechnology to discuss implementation of nanotech in industry.