Caretaker of Iran’s Industries and Mines Ministry Mehrabian here Thursday conferred with Bolivia’s visiting Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca Cespedes about expansion of industrial and mining relations and cooperation between the two countries.

A foreign vessel smuggling 300 thousand liters of fuel was stopped and confiscated by Iranian law enforcement police in the country’s southern port city of Minab.

Iran and Belarus Wednesday signed a deal worth an initial 250 million dollars to develop an oil field in southwest Iran, the latest sign of the expanding relationship between the two US foes.