Eurasia Press & News

Haddad-Adel: Ambassadors should represent religious values. Parliament Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel said on Thursday that Iranian ambassadors are expected represent the religious and Islamic values in the host countries.

The United States and Azerbaijan today signed an agreement to conduct a feasibility study on building two pipelines under the Caspian Sea. Under the agreement, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) will give Azerbaijan’s State Oil Company a $1.7 million grant to conduct the study.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for the bolstering of the Islamic Republic’s cooperation with Kazakhstan, reminding that the two countries enjoy intact investment, agricultural, industrial and energy potentials galore.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Thursday extended his congratulations to Bamir Topi and the Albanian nation and government on his election as the country’s president.

An earthquake measuring 3.6 on the Richter scale jolted the town of Haji Abad in the northeastern Iranian province of Southern Khorassan on Thursday.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that his country and Kyrgyzstan can enjoy extensive and unrestricted cooperation in different areas.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with his Kyrgyz and Tajik counterparts on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in the Kyrgyz capital city of Bishkek on Thursday.

Two Belgian tourists missing for days after a kidnapping in the southeastern Iran are free and in good health, Belgium’s foreign ministry said.

Iranian president in a meeting with his Chinese counterpart in Bishkek on Thursday stressed the two countries’ vast common grounds for mutual cooperation, reiterating that Tehran-Beijing relations would never be influenced by the pressures exerted by other countries.

Iran will not change its fuel rationing scheme and has no plans to offer extra gasoline outside quotas at a higher price, acting oil minister Gholamhossein Nozari has said.