TEHRAN (FNA)- Pressure for a cut in oil output at next week’s OPEC meeting in Vienna stepped up today when Iran’s OPEC governor said an oil price of $100 per barrel was “appropriate” in current conditions.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed sanctions by the world powers against his country as illegal, and said that Iran may impose sanctions against the world’s predominant forces in response.

TEHRAN (FNA)- An earthquake measuring 5 on the Richter scale jolted the areas in the vicinity of Iran-Iraq border in Iran’s southwestern province of Ilam on Thursday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian Air Force announced the first Saeqeh (Lightning) fighter-jets capable of conducting long-range air missions would be delivered in 2009.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran voiced strong opposition against plans to lay pipelines on the seabed of the Caspian Sea, warning that the move would cause irreparable environmental pollution in the world’s biggest lake.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Nigeria is keeping its options open on output quotas when the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) meets next week in the wake of falling oil prices, the country’s oil minister said on Thursday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev received a visiting Iranian delegation led by the Deputy Foreign Minister Mehdi Safari on Thursday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Turkmenistan seeks a price for the gas to be sold to India via TAPI pipeline three times higher than Iran’s price of gas via the Iran-Pakistani, India (IPI) pipeline.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Oil prices fell below $105 Friday on concerns over slowing energy demand and a strong US currency, while the market awaited next week’s OPEC meeting on crude output levels, traders said.

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) – At least five people were killed on Friday in a missile attack by a suspected U.S. drone in Pakistan’s North Waziristan region, in a stepped up campaign against militants near the Afghan border.