Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Wednesday extended his congratulations to Abdullah Gul and the Turkish nation and government on his election as the country’s president.

Iran’s revenues from oil exports stood at $51 bln in the year to March 2007, showing a 17-percent increase from the figure for the preceding year.

Iran’s ambassador designate to Bahrain has warned against the presence of non-Persian Gulf armies in the region, saying that they were destabilizing it.