Middle Orient

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran may list a $90 billion energy holding company on the Dubai International Financial Exchange to attract investment to its oil and gas industry.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini announced during a weekly press conference here in Tehran on Sunday that bilateral talks with the US are not on Tehran’s working agenda.

TEHRAN (FNA)- While partial results showed that conservatives have won over 70% of the 290-seat legislature, Iran’s elections headquarters is still filled with hectic staff working hard to wrap up counting and registering all ballots to announce the final results of Friday parliamentary elections in the country.

TEHRAN (FNA)- 20 years after the Iraqi imposed war ended, Iranian armed forces are still busy with tracing and defusing the landmines Iraqi troops planted inside Iran during the 8-year-long war.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Industries and Mines Minister Ali Akbar Mehrabian here Sunday reviewed latest developments in the country’s industrial sector and elaborated on the policies to be pursued in the coming Iranian year (starting on March 20).

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s conservatives were set Sunday to win two-thirds of the seats in parliament after dominating legislative elections.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Former chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani on Saturday celebrated winning a seat in Iran’s parliament by saying he differed with the president over style not substance and that he would work with the government.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian government finally decided to provide the country’s motorists with non-rationed petrol to give them a free hand in taking family trips during the new year holidays, starting this weekend.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini dismissed any impasse over Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran oil production capacity from western fields will have an increase of 500,000 barrels per day by 2011, a senior Iranian oil company official said.