TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Russia will have a good chance of participation in the construction of new nuclear power plants in Iran if it completes the Bushehr nuclear power plant on time, a top Iranian official said on Monday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian diplomats have indicated they want to skip a postponed meeting with security, military and diplomatic experts from the US and instead hold another round of talks at the ambassadorial level, Iraqi officials said Monday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear activities is an established fact needless of the approval of the US bodies and institutions, an Iranian lawmaker said in the wake of a report by 16 US intelligence bodies concluding that Iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapons program.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Thailand’s PTT will soon seek negotiations over contract details to buy liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Iran’s Pars project after the operator reached a construction agreement.

Gunmen posing as Iraqi security forces kidnapped 14 members of one family in the volatile Diyala province north of Baghdad on Monday, police said.

A cargo train collided with a large family car and killed 12 people, including 10 children from the same extended family, a hospital morgue official said on Monday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Commander of Iran’s naval force said his troops enjoy high capabilities for defending the country’s territorial waters.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran has turned down demands by the United States to halt its uranium enrichment program as a precondition for direct negotiations with Washington, Iranian foreign minister said here today.

TEHRAN – Iran has boosted oil export earnings in non-U.S. dollar currencies to 90 percent, a senior official said on Sunday, making clear the world’s fourth-largest crude exporter would continue to reduce its dollar exposure.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Some 2,500 tons of narcotics enter Iran from neighboring Afghanistan annually, an anti-drugs official said on Sunday.