Middle Orient

TEHRAN (FNA) – The Islamic Inter-Parliamentary Union supported the right of Islamic states and particularly Iran to use peaceful nuclear energy.

TEHRAN (FNA) – The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) announced here on Friday that the country’s economic growth rate in the first half of the current Iranian calendar year (started March 21, 2007) reached 6.7 percent, a 0.7 percent rise in comparison to that of the same period in its …

TEHRAN (FNA) – US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said he would favor holding direct talks with Iran and Syria in a bid to stabilize the Middle East if elected president.

Iraqi and European Union officials have discussed plans for Iraq to supply the EU with natural gas. Iraqi Oil Minister Hussain Al-Shahristani met EU External Relations commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner and Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs in Brussels Thursday. 

TEHRAN (FNA) – Foreign ministers of Iran and Africa are due to attend a meeting here in Tehran in the near future, Islamic Republic’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Friday.

TEHRAN (FNA) – As India has acquired the capability to produce viable commercial nuclear reactors with power generation capacities of 220 MW and 540 MW, some countries are interested in getting nuclear reactors from India, it was announced in New Delhi on Thursday.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Cuba has purchased 550 cargo wagons and 200 railway passenger cars from Iran, according to the country’s transport minister.

TEHRAN (FNA) – The Iraqi army has prevented the Iranian ambassador to Iraq, Hassan Kazemi Qomi, from meeting with an influential Sunni politician.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem voiced his country’s support for Iran’s right to acquire peaceful nuclear technology.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari is planned to hold talks with his counterparts from OPEC member states.