Eurasia Press & News

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki expressed hope that Saudi Arabia would use its influence in the region to help end the protracted Lebanon crisis.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s unemployment rate dropped to 10.3 percent in the 2007-2008 Iranian year from 11.3 percent the previous year, a senior government official said on Monday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as well as the army and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) commemorated Farvardin 12 (March 31), i.e. the Islamic Republic Day, in separate statements here on Monday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Chinese Ambassador to Tehran Xie Xiaoyan extended an invitation to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to attend the Olympic Games (2008) in China.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The US has demanded to see a Swiss contract for natural gas supplies from Iran to see whether it violates an American sanctions law against Tehran, the US Embassy in Switzerland said Sunday.

WASHINGTON — Iraq may dominate the headlines more often, but when leaders of 26 NATO nations gather in Bucharest, Romania, this week for their annual summit, the war in Afghanistan will be the hot topic.

Far-right lawmaker Geert Wilders posted a controversial anti-Qur’an documentary on a video-sharing website on Thursday, March 27, despite attempts from the government to dissuade him and criticism from Muslims and Christians alike.

According to occupation sources, Mujahideen fired on checkpoint of kuffar (Russian infidels) at the border with Wilayahs of Ghalghaycho (Ingushetia) and Iriston (Ossetia) on 18 Rabi‘ al-Awwal 1429 (25.03.2008) in the evening. As a result of attack two Russian kuffar were got injured.

Near Kurchaloi village in the same district of Wilayah Nokhchicho, 16 Rabi‘al-Awwal 1429 (24.03.2008) in the afternoon, Mujahideen detonated an explosive device on a group of armed apostates, then attacked them with assault rifles and machine guns, killing at least three murtadin and wounding an unknown number of others.