Eurasia Press & News

Pakistan has agreed to details of a deal for buying gas from Iran, officials from both sides said on Friday, adding that the proposed tri-nation pipeline would be viable even if India, the third party, walked out.

Bolivian President Evo Morales welcomed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Bolivia on Thursday.

Iran’s parliament on Saturday approved a nonbinding resolution labeling the CIA and the U.S. Army “terrorist organizations,” in apparent response to a Senate resolution seeking to give a similar designation to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

KABUL, Afghanistan – The International Committee of the Red Cross has established contact with the armed group that kidnapped four of its workers but no progress has been made, officials said Friday.

As of Friday, Sept. 28, 2007, at least 375 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Sept. 22, 2007.

Undersecretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Javad Vaeedi rejected reports about the existence of a secret nuclear center in his country as baseless.

The stances voiced by the Iranian president during his address to the United Nations General Assembly was a source of pride for the world of Islam, Tehran’s provisional Friday Prayers leader Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati said here today.

Qatari Emir Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, in a meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting in New York, said that the whole world endorses the righteousness of Ahmadinejad’s address to the US Columbia University.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s remarks at the US Columbia University underlined the righteousness and truthfulness of the Islamic Republic’s stances.

Commander of the Qods Corps of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) General Ghasem Soleymani warned West that any kind of military invasion of the Islamic Republic is doomed to defeat and failure.