Iran’s caretaker Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari here Wednesday said that phase 6 of Iran’s South Pars Oil and Gas field is now ready to go into operation.

An earthquake measuring 3.7 on the Richter scale jolted the town of Mohr in Iran’s southern province of Fars on Wednesday.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki is due to Leave Tehran for Herat, Afghanistan late this week to attend the 17th ministerial meeting of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO).