Reduce Price Pressure On Weak Countries OPEC Fund Proposed TEHRAN, April 19–President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday emphasized that despite the hike in oil prices in recent years, the real price has not been achieved and urged oil exporters to reduce the pressure of price hike on weak countries. Addressing the …

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made the remarks on Tuesday to commemorate Army Day.    “Today, you are among the world’s most powerful armies because you rely on God,” Ahmadinejad told military officers before a parade of the armed forces in southern Tehran.

TALLINN, Estonia — Moscow no longer has any “rational basis” for keeping the non-Russian republics of the Northern Caucasus within the Russian Federation, according to a Moscow commentator, but “neither the Russian government nor Russian public opinion is yet prepared” to allow them to become independent.