Eurasia Press & News

The 11th meeting of Iran-Oman joint economic commission was held in Masqat on Wednesday.

Tehran always seeks to remove the possible misunderstandings between the two states through talks and based on the 1971 Memorandum of Understanding, Iran’s envoy to the Inter-Parliamentary Union meeting in Indonesia said following allegations raised by the UAE’s representative about Iran’s three Persian Gulf islands.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki , in a meeting with his Omani counterpart Yusef bin Alavi, stressed the need for the two countries to utilize their potentials in a bid to promote mutual trade and economic cooperation.

Iran has extended $1 bln in credits for reconstruction projects in Iraq, a senior official said Tuesday ahead of an international conference on stabilizing Iraq.

Notwithstanding US reservations over the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline, the World Bank has described it as a win-win deal and expressed readiness to fund the seven billion dollar project.

Seven of the 15 British Royal Navy personnel held captive by Iran are back in the Persian Gulf searching for smugglers, Britain’s military said Tuesday.

By RAHIM FAIEZ, Associated Press A U.S.-led raid Sunday on a suspected militant cell killed as many as six Afghans — including a woman and a teenage girl — and spawned protests by hundreds of angry Afghans chanting “Death to Bush!” The U.S. said four militants were among the dead, …

The News (Pakistan) – The presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan agreed Monday to fight terrorism and deny training and financing to terrorists in both countries. Brought together by Turkish leaders, the pair issued a joint statement stressing a mutual commitment to fighting terrorism after meeting at Turkey’s presidential palace. “The …

Iran-Iraq parliamentary friendship group in a statement released here on Monday strongly condemned construction of a partitioning wall in Baghdad by occupying troops, saying that the measure is in line with Israel’s failed plots for sowing religious and ethnic discord in Iraq.

Gambia’s incoming ambassador to Tehran met with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki here on Monday.