Eurasia Press & News

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran and South Africa have decided to boost cooperation in oil, gas and petrochemical industries, a senior Iranian economic official said. Visiting Iranian Deputy Economy Minister Behrouz Alishiri made the remarks at the end of his official visit to South Africa. The visit to South Africa by the …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a message to an international conference on supporting Palestinian resistance urged the United Nations to fulfill its responsibility to stop Israeli massacre in Gaza. “I urge the UN Secretary General and the Security Council to do their International and legal duties and responsibilities …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian First Lady Azam al-Sadat Farahi, in a letter to her Egyptian counterpart, asked for her help to facilitate aid delivery to Palestinians. “Witnessing the dead bodies of women and children is painful and even worse is that some governments in Arab and Islamic countries do not support …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki Sunday called for a complete withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip, stressing that just ceasing fire by the Israeli military is not enough. “A mere halt of aerial, naval and ground attacks without a pull-out of the forces from the occupied …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Captain of Iranian cargo ship, carrying Iran’s aid to Gaza, stressed that his vessel will wait in international waters until its mission is accomplished. “We will be waiting until we accomplish the mission. Our objective is to deliver the cargo to the Gazans,” Goudarz Qaleh-Golab said. “We started …

TEHRAN (FNA)- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in a statement issued on Saturday in Beirut, expressed satisfaction over the decision to cease hostilities in the occupied lands. According to a press release issued by the UN Information Center (UNIC) in Tehran, the full text of the UN chief’s statement is as …

Tehran substitute Friday prayers leader said here Friday Supreme Leader’s guidelines on the Fifth 5-Year Development Plan open a predictable future before our eyes and if, God willing, they would be pursued, we would be successful in achieving 20-Year Vision Document objectives.

The Leader of the Islamic Revolution says the resistance of Hamas fighters in Gaza is taking away the Israeli army’s self-confidence. In a message to Hamas leader Ismail Haniya on Friday, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said Israeli troops have been pushed to the outskirts of Gaza City due to the …

Close to half of Slovenians, some 47.5 percent, do not want to see their neighbour and fellow ex-Yugoslav Croatia join the European Union, according to a Median poll published in the Croatian weekly Globus. According to the telephone poll conducted from January 8 to 12 on a sample of 712 …

The United Nations mission in Kosovo, UNMIK, lied to Serbia when it was quizzed over an investigation into alleged trafficking of organs taken from ethnic Serbs during the Kosovo conflict, a spokesman for Serbia’s war crimes prosecutor said. Former U.N. war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte wrote in her memoirs, …