TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - Iran and China on Saturday signed a series of agreements worth $4 billion (2.8 billion euros) for infrastructure projects as part of a broader bid to boost trade volume between the two nations, Iranian state media reported.
The bilateral agreements span cooperation in water, mining, energy and industrial sectors.
As part of a $500 million (354 million euros) [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - Iran is ready to cooperate with Argentina over a 1994 bombing attack on a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people, the foreign ministry announced on Saturday.
Tehran, suspected by Argentina of being behind the attack, is "ready for a constructive dialogue and to cooperate with the Argentine government to shed all possible light within the [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and visiting Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari called on Saturday for a boost to bilateral relations, the official IRNA news agency reported.
"Iran is ready to reinforce its cooperation with Pakistan in every field," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying.
"Construction of the pipeline to export Iranian gas to Pakistan is underway, and [...]
ABUJA (AFP) - (AFP) - Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi is in Nigeria for a meeting of eight developing countries that want to boost trade, government officials and diplomats said Thursday.
Relations between Iran and Nigeria got frosty last year following the discovery in Lagos of a weapons shipment that was loaded in Iran.
"He came to Nigeria for a D8 meeting of ministers [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - A woman sentenced to death by stoning in Iran is in "perfect health" and has been allowed to attend her mother's funeral, a justice official told IRNA state news agency on Wednesday.
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani "is in prison in perfect health... and like all inmates enjoys her full rights as a prisoner," IRNA quoted Malek Ajdar Sharifi, head of East Azarbaijan [...]
VIENNA (AFP) - (AFP) - Iran on Tuesday signaled it wanted closer cooperation with the UN atomic watchdog but said the Vienna-based agency must agree to "explicit" guidelines on how to proceed to solve a nuclear row.
"Experts from both sides have to sit together and work out a mechanism to see how we can proceed," Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said after talks with Intern [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast on Monday rejected accusations by US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta that Iran had armed rebels in neighbouring Iraq.
"The United States is not in a good position in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are doing everything they can to maintain their military presence in these two countries," the state television websi [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - Iran has made several arrests in connection with the "current of deviation", a term used to refer to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's chief of staff and entourage, ISNA news agency said Monday.
"Those arrested, in addition to economic and moral issues, have security problems," said the spokesman for the Iranian judiciary, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejeie, adding the [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - Tehran "reserves the right" to attack the bases of an Iranian Kurdish separatist group across the Iraq border, the official IRNA news agency quoted an army official as saying on Monday.
"We reserve the right to attack and destroy terrorist bases in border areas" near the autonomous Iraqi region of Kurdistan, the agency quoted the unnamed senior official as say [...]
KHANAQIN, Iraq (AFP) - (AFP) - Dozens of Iraqi farmers on Sunday blocked a border crossing with Iran in protest at its diversion of a river which helps to irrigate one of their country's main agricultural regions.
The protesters blocked the entry of nine busloads of Iranian pilgrims from the border post of Munzuria, 200 kilometres (125 miles) east of Baghdad, an AFP journalist said. [...]
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