Middle Orient

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran said on Tuesday it had agreed to a visit by EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana to submit an upgraded package of incentives aimed at persuading Tehran into giving up its NPT right of uranium enrichment.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Foreign investors are welcome to participate in both upstream and downstream projects of Iran’s petrochemical industry, Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Basij (volunteer) forces are to start patrolling streets in urban areas across Iran to try to help police curb security threats, a Basij commander said on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- A group of cultural heritage guards in Iran’s northwestern province of Zanjan has recently stumbled on a historical gravestone in the Dahaneh village near the town of Tarom.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The gas to be produced from Iran’s South Pars Field will likely be retained for domestic use, an executive of the oil major Royal Dutch Shell said.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran protested to the United States on Wednesday over a US-based counter-revolutionary group responsible for a deadly mosque bombing.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei met with the Eritrea’s visiting President, Isaias Afwerki here in Tehran on Tuesday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – An Iraqi television station accused U.S. troops on Thursday of shooting dead one of its cameramen as he walked to his Baghdad home.

SOFIA (Reuters) – The Bulgarian government decided on Thursday to relocate 155 Bulgarian troops serving in Iraq to Baghdad to guard a U.S. detention facility.

DOHA (Reuters) – Rival Lebanese leaders signed a deal on Wednesday to end 18 months of political conflict that had threatened to push the country to a new civil war. The agreement, reached after six days of Arab-mediated talks, also paved the way for the election of a new president.