Eurasia Press & News

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed to boost cooperation with energy-rich Turkmenistan on Wednesday.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said a proposed US missile defense shield in central Europe would threaten “all Asia”.

First it was a tie up with Chrysler, then it was a surprise joint venture with Fiat – now it’s investing in Iran. Chery, the Chinese car manufacturer, is quite the globetrotter these days, and its first major auto venture in the Middle Eastern country looks like a smart move.

Europe’s scientific development is undoubtedly indebted to Muslim, and specially Iranian, scientists and scholars, Iran’s Expediency Council Chairman Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, heading a high-ranking delegation, arrived in the Kyrgyz capital city of Bishkek on Wednesday to meet with senior officials of that country and attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit.

Two Chinese nationals have been arrested on charges of taking photographs from a military site in the city of Arak in central Iran, Judiciary Spokesman Alireza Jamshidi said.

An Iranian lawmaker viewed Hezbollah’s 33-day defense against Israeli invasion as among the most exceptional wars in recent decades, saying that Lebanese resistance brought the Untied States’ Greater Middle-East plan to mere failure.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Turkmen counterpart Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov stressed development of the two countries’ relations in all the various areas and at all levels.

One of the two kidnapped Belgian tourists who were abducted by bandits on Bam road in southeastern Iran was released by the Iranian law enforcement police yesterday afternoon, an informed source said on Wednesday.

Senior Iranian officials and their Turkmen hosts signed four cooperation agreements and one joint statement at the end of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s two-day visit to the northern neighbor.