In a message on the occasion of the new Iranian year 1386, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Khamenei named the new Iranian year 1386, the year of national unity and Islamic solidarity.

Iranian Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar Conveyed Separate Messages to the Defense Ministers of Afghanistan, Azerbaijan and Tajikistan wishing them happy Norooz (new year).

President of Armenia Robert Kocharian stressed the point that the Armenian nation will not forget the assistances that the Islamic Republic of Iran provided to the Armenian nation during the hard times experienced by the Armenian nation.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the ceremonies marking inauguration of the pipeline project for the transfer of Iran’s natural gas to Armenia reiterated that Iran-Armenia joint projects reinvigorate friendship bonds between the two nations and cause expansion of mutual cooperation to the interest of the two nations as well as …

 In his message on the occasion of the new Iranian year 1386, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wished the Iranians a happy new year and reiterated that today Iran and Iranians are known in the world as symbols of ethics, faith, purity, culture, affection, unity and might.

Undersecretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council rejected New York Times’ news alleging that the Russian officials have made supply of nuclear fuel requirements of Bushehr power plant conditional on the suspension of enrichment activities.

ndia is funding the construction and reconstruction of various power projects in Afghanistan. Some of these are: Construction of 220kV double circuit transmission line of 202 km from Pul-e-Khumri to Kabul and a 220/110/20kV substation in Kabul, Afghanistan, at an estimated cost of Rs 478 crore. It involves the construction …

Photo: IRIN Refugees arrive in Kabul in brightly coloured vehicles KABUL, 20 March 2007 (IRIN) – Afghan refugees living in Iran and Pakistan will receive a six-fold increase in cash grants upon their return to Afghanistan, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). “We want to support the reintegration …

Photo: WFP Destruction and damage left by flooding KABUL, 20 March 2007 (IRIN) – More than 50 people have been killed and hundreds displaced because of heavy rainfall, avalanches and floods over the past few days in Afghanistan’s southern and south-western provinces, officials say. In Uruzgan, Helmand, Badghis and Ghor …

KABUL – Amid political bickering in Washington and Brussels, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which assumed command of international military operations for Afghanistan last October, is struggling to assert a new image – one that Afghans can get their minds around. “We are determined to build the NATO brand …