Eurasia Press & News

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran on Sunday called on the US troops to release the five Iranian diplomats who have been kidnapped during an earlier raid by the US forces on the Islamic Republic’s consulate general in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Deputy Governor General of Iran’s southern province of Hormuzgan strongly rejected rumors about eruption of clashes between Iranian and US battleships in the Persian Gulf.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian parliament speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel here on Sunday condemned the Thursday raid by the US military troops on Iran’s consulate general in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s Ahmadinejad and Venezuela’s Chavez in Caracas on Sunday said they were decisive to establish a strategic investment fund.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Tehran and Caracas issued a joint statement and signed 10 cooperation agreements and Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) in various grounds on Saturday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran and Venezuela called on the other members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to slash their production in a bid to prevent any further drop in the world oil prices.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A senior Iranian lawmaker, assessing the new Iraq strategy of the US President George W. Bush, said that the United States’ new moves in Iraq and the region are all destined to failure.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said all the world countries should assist those nations which have been kept behind, describing it as a humane duty for all.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Chairman of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission called on the United Nations to take urgent and serious measures with regard to the United States’ illegal actions in Iraq.

AMMAN (JT) — King Abdullah on Sunday urged the US to “actively” push for reviving Palestinian-Israeli peace talks, leading to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, a Royal Court statement said.