TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- German Ambassador to Tehran voiced his country’s enthusiasm for developing economic relations with Iran.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh said here on Saturday that he hoped the OPEC basket oil price would hit $60 a barrel or more in the next few days.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s reformist former president Mohammad Khatami is to visit Britain for the first time to open an Iranian studies university department and receive an honorary PhD, his office said.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- An informed source said that in case sanctions are called off, Tehran will start negotiations with three airplane engine and spare parts manufacturing companies of the United States in the near future.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- An informed source said that Iran’s ambassador to Senegal, Mohammad Hoseini, is due to be appointed as the country’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel said if the West continues posing threats and sanctions against Tehran, that would mean that the nuclear issue is just an excuse for the US and some other powers to exert pressure on Iran.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The Japanese government acknowledged Friday that Inpex Corp. has agreed to reduce its interests in the development of Iran’s Azadegan oil field to 10 percent from the current 75 percent after days of talks over the stalled $2 billion deal.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Angola’s accredited ambassador to Tehran Pedro Hendrik Vall Neto met with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki here on Saturday and submitted his credentials to him.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Member of the Iranian Parliament’s Presiding Board Hamid Reza Hajji Baba’ee defined the recent meeting of the Group 5+1 in London as just a political-propaganda maneuver to exert pressure on Iran.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The political advisor of the Shiite Majority Fraction in the Iraqi parliament Mohsen Hakim, noting the recent remarks of the country’s President Jalal Talebani, said that the Parliament is the only authority to decide about continued presence of the US troops in Iraq.