Eurasia Press & News

Due to the intelligent leadership of Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei and unity and solidarity of the people, Iran is now recognized as the most secure country in the region, a senior interior ministry official said here on Tuesday.

Iranian and Turkmen presidents in a meeting on the sidelines of the second summit of the Caspian Sea Littoral States here in Tehran on Tuesday laid emphasis on the further expansion of relations.

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev called for Tehran’s continued support for Baku in all the various grounds.

Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev stressed that the Caspian Sea littoral states should restrict their military operations to their borders if they intend to resolve their conflicts.

Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed that littoral states widen North-South transit corridor through digging a canal between the Caspian and the Black seas.

KABUL, Afghanistan: A mother who tried to stop her son from carrying out a suicide bomb attack triggered an explosion in the family’s home in southern Afghanistan that killed the would-be bomber, his mother and three siblings, police said.

Influential Shiite cleric Ammar Hakim held talks in Ramadi on Sunday with a powerful Sunni tribal sheikh, which observers said were highly symbolic for reconciliation in war-torn Iraq.

Traders in Tyre’s bustling market say UN peacekeepers have brought “baraka” and a dose of good fortune to south Lebanon, making up at least in part for the ravages of last year’s Israel-Lebanon war.

Iran and Kazakhstan signed four agreements on mutual cooperation in different fields and issued a joint communiqué here in Tehran on Monday.

Commander-in-chief of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s army Major General Salehi here on Monday stressed that his troops will give a crushing response to any kind of enemy aggression.