TEHRAN (FNA) Proposed by foreign minister and approved by the president, Asghar Ebrahimi Asl was assigned as the Islamic Republic of Iran’s ambassador to South Africa.

TEHRAN (FNA) Iran and Russia are due to agree on a date for the launch of operation of the Islamic Republic’s first nuclear power plant in the southern port city of Bushehr within the next few weeks, deputy head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization said here on Sunday.

TEHRAN (FNA) An earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale jolted the areas in the vicinity of the town of Shahmirzad in Iran’s northern province of Semnan on Monday.