Iran, OPEC’s number-two exporter, hit out at the recent hike in oil prices, saying real prices were far lower than the 90-dollar-a-barrel level of last week.

Iranian and UN nuclear watchdog officials started another round of talks on Sunday on Tehran’s nuclear program focusing on P1 and P2 centrifuges.

HERAT, Afghanistan (AFP) – Iran believes Afghanistan would never allow its soil to be used by the United States to launch an attack, the Iranian foreign minister said here Saturday.