Eurasia Press & News

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said Baseeji (volunteer) troops play a decisive role in the country’s asymmetric warfare strategies.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A senior Iranian oil ministry official said here Monday that Europe has no way out but to satisfy its energy needs by transferring Iran’s gas via Turkey’s Nabucco pipeline.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran and a team from the UN nuclear watchdog started a fresh round of talks on Monday in Tehran to remove remaining ambiguities about Tehran’s nuclear programs.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iraq’s National Security Advisor called on Persian Gulf states to form a regional security pact, which would include Iran.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The Iraqi government on Sunday said the US needed to take bolder steps to interact directly with Iran in order to improve security across the Middle East.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran signed a $2bn oil contract with Sinopec of China Sunday, sending a signal to western companies that they might miss out on potentially lucrative contracts with one of the world’s biggest energy exporters if they continued to heed US-inspired sanctions against Tehran.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Tehran says recent comments about Iran from Washington cannot affect relations between countries in the Mideast.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- World oil traded lower in Asia on Monday as the market entered a traditional year-end cooling off period and concerns persisted over slower US economic growth, dealers said.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said that after three rounds of talks with the US over Iraq, Tehran has not yet found Washington committed to the agreements gained during the previous meetings.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said that the French oil company, Total, has voiced preparedness to make a 12-bln-dollar investment in Iran’s Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project.