Eurasia Press & News

Turkey and Iran have agreed to build three power plants expected to use natural gas to generate 6000 MW and also plan to build hydroelectric plants together, a senior energy official confirmed recently.

UN atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei said Monday that the disputed deal reached last month between Iran and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is a right step forward to resolve Iran’s nuclear issue.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – A suicide bomber on a motorized rickshaw detonated explosives Monday in a marketplace in southern Afghanistan, killing 28 people in one of the deadliest bombings since the fall of the Taliban. Children selling chewing gum and cigarettes were among the victims of the blast.

A Lebanese presidential candidate called for consolidated ties between Iran and all political groups of his country.

The navy has gained high potentials in manufacturing gunboats, battleships and vessels, commander-in-chief of the Iranian army’s naval force said Monday.

All independent nations should be able to make use of the nuclear energy, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a meeting with the Philippines’ new ambassador to Tehran, Alaeddin Vilacorte, here on Monday.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel said attainment of common ideals requires increased convergence among Asian countries both in theory and practice.

Two foreign nationals who had been shot and left alone in the vicinity of the city of Khoy in western Azerbaijan province have been arrested by Iranian police, an Iranian Law Enforcement official said.

Iran’s Judiciary chief said arrogant powers’ animosity towards the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has resulted from the latter’s outstanding role in exporting revolution and bringing a major change to the movements of Islamic nations.

Baghdad is to export 100,000 barrels of crude oil a day to Abadan’s refinery in south of Iran, the Iraqi oil Minister said.