Iran will find other ways to use gas it planned to sell to UAE private energy company Crescent Petroleum if a long-running price dispute is not resolved, the Iranian oil minister was quoted yesterday as saying.

Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) strongly rejected reports about its defection from Iran.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here on Saturday that his country will not be pushed by sanctions to suspend work on its disputed nuclear program.