Eurasia Press & News

Russia’s air force chief said Friday that Moscow would upgrade an air base in Tajikistan to make it capable of hosting Russian combat jets – expanding Russian military presence in the Central Asian nation that borders Afghanistan, the AP reported.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Bulgarian Economic and Energy Minister officially called for the transit of Iran’s gas to his country and other EU states via Iran-Azerbaijan pipeline.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- An Iranian official said that once the natural gas liquefaction project by Pars LNG Company turns operational, a sum of 35 million tons of natural gas will be exported from Iran.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov criticized European powers’ approach to Iran’s nuclear program in talks with top EU officials that were supposed to prepare a summit on closer EU-Russia relations.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Sharp differences have emerged between the five permanent members of the UN Security Council over the sanctions to be imposed on Iran for its failure to suspend uranium enrichment with the European draft coming under fire from Russia, which wants to soften it.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Member of a US delegation called ‘Messengers of Peace’ believe that the US joint maneuvers in the Persian Gulf waters proved to be an unimportant show.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs stressed that Iran is strongly opposed to all types of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs), saying that the world would be a safer place without such inhuman arms.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Parliament speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel said here Saturday that the embassy takeover by Iran shattered the United States’ forged awe in the Middle-East and world.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A senior member of the US delegation called ‘Messengers of Peace’ warned about the undesirable consequences of any US threats against Iran.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A parliamentary friendship group left Tehran for Amman on Saturday on an official visit to Jordan.