TEHRAN (FNA) – Iran’s budget for the next fiscal year shows a 20.8 percent increase compared to the current year’s, an Iranian lawmaker said.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iran’s defense minister said the high quality of domestically-made defense equipment has rendered sanctions against the country ineffective.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Petroleum Ministers of India and Pakistan held discussions in London on a multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline project involving the two countries and Iran, with both sides expressing their keenness to put it on stream.