Eurasia Press & News

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini said Tehran is not still informed of the date of the visit to Iran by the French President’s special envoy.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s economic growth during the first 9 months of the current (Iranian) year surpassed 6%, said president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad here on Sunday as he submitted the new Iranian year’s budget bill to the parliament.

DAMASCUS (Agencies) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday his negotiations with Hamas leader Khaled Mishaal had been “fruitful” and that talks to form a unity government would continue.

BAGHDAD (AFP) — At least 25 US troops were killed across Iraq in one of the deadliest days for the American forces since the invasion began, as the military said Sunday 3,200 new troops had arrived to quell Baghdad violence.

WASHINGTON (AFP) —  US Democrats forged ahead Sunday with plans to introduce a resolution in Congress condemning President George W. Bush’s decision to send more troops to Iraq, where the US toll rose sharply.

TEHRAN (AP) — Adamant not to budge under pressure, Iran on Sunday announced new short-range missile tests, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed criticism that new UN Security Council sanctions were hurting the economy.

SUSIYA — The turnout is good. Four coach loads of people have come from all over Israel. There are two from Jerusalem, one from Tel Aviv and one from Herzliya. On a sunny January mid-morning, the maybe 200 people walking across the arid hills in the southern West Bank, with …

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran and Sri Lanka are due to consolidate bilateral ties in the cooperative sector through enhancement of cooperation between the two countries’ private sectors.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Ambassador to Thailand Mohsen Pak-Ayeen said in Bangkok on Saturday that sanctions imposed on Iran by a UN Security Council resolution will bear no fruit.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- An informed source in Iraq’s northern city of Erbil said that Iran’s Ambassador to Iraq will leave Baghdad for Erbil Saturday afternoon to pursue the case with the Iranian diplomats kidnapped by the US forces during a raid on the Iranian consulate general in Erbil.