Middle Orient

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iranian Deputy Interior Minister Hojjatollah Ayoubi said on Sunday that the current status of Iranian women and their significant advancement in the country has made them a good model for countries in the region.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei pardoned a large number of prisoners as Iran celebrates the 29th anniversary of its Islamic Revolution.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iranians in Tehran and various other cities staged massive rallies to mark the 29th anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution on Monday.

TEHRAN (FNA) – South Korea will deliver 16 oil tankers to Iran in 2008, while the time for delivery of domestically built tankers is not certain.

BAGHDAD – Growing impatience with the slow pace of work to improve basic services like electricity and water could threaten security gains in Iraq’s Anbar province, a former al Qaeda stronghold, the U.S. military said on Sunday.

BEIRUT – A leading member of Lebanon’s anti-Syrian governing coalition on Sunday warned of anarchy and raised the specter of war in the country, which is suffering its worst political crisis since the 1975-90 civil war.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon was warmly received by his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a welcome ceremony here in Tehran on Sunday.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iran and Tajikistan on Sunday signed a protocol on defense cooperation.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon here Sunday voiced pleasure with the desirable prospects awaiting Tehran-Dushanbe relations.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will certainly take a trip to Iraq by the end of this (Iranian) year, foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here on Sunday.