Middle Orient

TEHRAN (FNA)- Nine tons of various types of narcotics discovered in clashes with drug traffickers were set on fire by the Law Enforcement Police in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas on Thursday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- A meeting brokered by Baghdad between Iran and the United States over Iraq’s security was postponed Thursday, an Iraqi government official said, a day after Washington alleged that no such talks were planned.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The frozen Indo-Iranian peace pipeline project is likely to see a thaw in the next three months as the US presidential elections will ring in a regime change and also usher in the dawn of multilateralism in the world, Iran’s deputy foreign minister said.

TEHRAN (FNA)- An Iranian delegation arrived in Baghdad on Wednesday for a new round of talks with US officials on security in Iraq on the following day.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The foreign ministers of Iran and Saudi Arabia held talks at Cairo airport on Wednesday, Egyptian officials said, in a possible attempt to resolve a political crisis in Lebanon.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Pakistan on Wednesday said a bus service to Iran would commence soon and a private company had been entrusted to operate the service.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran said on Wednesday it would only discuss its nuclear program with the UN atomic watchdog, rejecting a call by world powers to hold more talks with the EU’s foreign policy chief.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian politicians may find it tougher to reach out to voters in this month’s parliament election when campaigning started on Thursday because of a ban on posters bearing their photographs.

Iran’s First Vice-President, Parviz Davoudi and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad here on Thursday called for further expansion of bilateral cooperation.

ARBIL, Iraq – Turkish warplanes bombed villages in remote northern Iraq on Tuesday, a week after a major eight-day offensive by Turkish forces against Kurdish PKK guerrillas in the region, border officials said on Wednesday.