Middle Orient

TEHRAN (FNA) – World has no way out but to accept Iran’s power, Government Spokesman Gholam Hosseini Elham said in the wake of a recent statement by the European parliament.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Presidents of Algeria, Mauritania, Mali, Zimbabwe and Namibia as well as prime minister of Lesotho voiced support for Iran’s right to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iran’s top military commander said his forces will retaliate against American military bases in the Persian Gulf if they are involved in any possible future attack on Iran.

TEHRAN (FNA) – The absence of UK and European business with Iran will see the country’s trade orientation shift toward the East, with western products being increasingly replaced by Chinese imports, an Iranian official said.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iran’s biggest oilfield, Azadegan, will come on stream next week, a newspaper reported on Saturday, a key project in plans to gradually boost output capacity in the world’s fourth-largest crude producer.

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.