Eurasia Press & News

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Ten days before the start of the primaries, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee is a hot item. He is leading the polls among Republican candidates in Iowa – the first state to cast its votes – and is increasingly gaining in the state that will follow, …

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran intends to issue an international tender for the construction of 19 nuclear power plants.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Armenia is not ruling out extending the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline to Europe, the Armenian energy minister said on Monday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Russia will have a good chance of participation in the construction of new nuclear power plants in Iran if it completes the Bushehr nuclear power plant on time, a top Iranian official said on Monday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian diplomats have indicated they want to skip a postponed meeting with security, military and diplomatic experts from the US and instead hold another round of talks at the ambassadorial level, Iraqi officials said Monday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear activities is an established fact needless of the approval of the US bodies and institutions, an Iranian lawmaker said in the wake of a report by 16 US intelligence bodies concluding that Iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapons program.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Thailand’s PTT will soon seek negotiations over contract details to buy liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Iran’s Pars project after the operator reached a construction agreement.

Gunmen posing as Iraqi security forces kidnapped 14 members of one family in the volatile Diyala province north of Baghdad on Monday, police said.

A cargo train collided with a large family car and killed 12 people, including 10 children from the same extended family, a hospital morgue official said on Monday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Commander of Iran’s naval force said his troops enjoy high capabilities for defending the country’s territorial waters.