Middle Orient

TEHRAN (FNA) – Tehran Mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf advised western countries to not deprive themselves of advantages of interacting with Iran.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Senior Lebanese cleric Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah said the US and Israel intend to force Arabs to enter an anti-Iran war.

TEHRAN (FNA) – The Sri Lankan president and Iran’s commerce minister Masoud Mirkazemi urged expansion of economic ties between the two countries.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Gas-producing countries will discuss the idea of forming a “gas OPEC” along the lines of the existing oil cartel in June in Moscow, Qatar’s energy minister said on Friday.

TEHRAN (FNA) - Iran received a seventh batch of nuclear fuel from Russia on Saturday for Bushehr nuclear power plant, leaving just one more to complete the total consignment.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Tens of thousands of Tehrani worshipers here Friday rallied in protest against the Zionists regime’s latest crimes in Gaza and condemned US complicity in Zionists’ crime.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Tehran’s Interim Friday Prayers leader Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati condemned Israel’s barbaric raid on Gaza, and criticized human rights bodies as well as heads of Islamic states for their silence towards the human catastrophe prevailing in Gaza Strip.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and his French counterpart Bernard Kouchner in a meeting on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland explored avenues for the strengthening of Tehran-Paris relations.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Moscow hopes to have a rail connection with Iran, Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin recently remarked in Yerevan.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev welcomed Iran’s call for holding an extraordinary meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.