The Russian foreign minister dismisses sanctions against Iran as ineffective, saying Tehran’s isolation would have regional consequences. “It is obvious that sanctions against Iran won’t be effective,” Sergei Lavrov said in the Moscow State University of Foreign Relations on Wednesday. Lavrov stressed that a compromise should be reached “no matter how hard it may be,” [...]

Iran has extended a credit line of more than 200 million euros to Bolivia to help the industrial development of the South American country. The agreement included the transfer of technology to Bolivia, Iranian Minister of Industries and Mining Ali Akbar Mehrabian said at a joint press conference with Bolivian President Evo Morales in the [...]

Iran hits back at former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton for calls to attack Iran’s nuclear sites, saying his remarks have neither a political nor military core. “John Bolton’s remarks lack any true political or military basis and lack the perception of a politician,” Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi told Fars [...]

Iran says the financial support that “leaders of sedition” received is not a matter of election or post-election unrest, it started years ago. “This funding was provided by NGOs and organizations that cooperated with them over the past years,” Iranian Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi told Fars news agency on Tuesday. According to Moslehi, the organizations [...]

Iran has produced more than 16 million tons of petrochemical products in the first five months of the Iranian year (March 21 – August 21, 2010). Iran exported 7.14 million tons of petrochemicals, worth $4.2 billion, and some 2.8 million tons of the produced petrochemicals were sold in domestic markets, according to a report published [...]

The Iranian foreign minister says any country which attacks Iran will regret it, adding Iran is set to safeguard its inalienable rights. “No one can ignore the rights of a nation,” Manouchehr Mottaki said in an interview with German weekly magazine Der Spiegel, according to Fars News Agency. “Iran is determined to defend its rights, [...]

Iran has rejected reports that the survivors of Pakistan’s devastating floods have thronged behind Iran’s borders, trying to enter the country. “We have not received any news concerning the surge of flood-hit people of Pakistan to Iran’s borders and the security officials of the Interior Ministry have not confirmed the case whatsoever,” Iranian Foreign Ministry [...]

Iran will publish a list of Israeli-linked companies by next week to apply sanctions against them, Iran’s Vice-President for Parliamentary Affairs Mohammad-Reza Mir-Tajeddini says. Iran’s Foreign Ministry presented a list of multi-national companies with Israeli connections to the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission last week, Mir-Tajeddini told Mehr news agency on Monday. The [...]

Iran is to mount an exhibition of Palestine-inspired photos taken by prominent Iranian photographer Alfred Yaghobzadeh on the anniversary of the International Quds Day in Tehran. The display dubbed the Wall will be hosted by the Tehran-based Palestine Museum of Contemporary Art in collaboration with the Imam Ali Museum (PBUH), and will showcase 32 photos [...]

The Bolivian President Evo Morales has called for concerted efforts of Iran, Venezuela and Bolivia to put an end to the unilateralism dominant in the world. “People in the world are suffering from the unilateralism of big countries that have filled the markets with their products,” Morales said in a meeting with Iranian Minister of [...]

Iran has discovered 13 new oil and gas fields with in-place reserves of 14 billion barrels of oil and 45 trillion cubic feet of natural gas within the past 12 months. The Islamic Republic has also exported around 2,200,600 barrels of oil per day in the past year, according to a report published on the [...]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called on regional countries to remain vigilant and put up a stiff resistance against enemies. “The great awareness which has emerged in the resistance front of regional nations from Lebanon to Iran will defeat all enemies,” Ahmadinejad said in a meeting with senior officials of Lebanon’s Amal Movement in the [...]

Iran’s Industries and Mines Minister Ali-Akbar Mehrabian says promotion of all-out cooperation between Iran and Venezuela can relieve US pressures. “Now that the United States endeavors to ratchet up foreign pressure on the Islamic Republic and Venezuela, the two states should relieve the US pressure by further developing their all-out and mutual cooperation,” Mehrabian said [...]

The Netherlands’ new ambassador to Iran, Cornelis Johannes Kool, says he is determined to improve ties between the two nations. Kool presented his credentials to Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in a meeting on Sunday. During the meeting, Mottaki noted that there are great potential for expanding ties between Tehran and Amsterdam. He added that [...]

Iran has launched production line for 130-millimeter advanced artillery shells, the longest range in its arsenal. Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi inaugurated the production line of the advanced shells in the capital Tehran. He said experts have improved the older version of the system, increasing the range of the ammunition from 27 to [...]

The Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) says it will not support anti-Iran sanctions, adding that such measures have no effects on the country’s economy. “This organization as an economic institute will not support the imposition of sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran,” IRNA quoted ECO Secretary General Mohammad Yahya Maroufi as saying on Sunday. “These [...]

Minister of Science, Research and Technology Kamran Daneshjoo says the “enemies” of Iran are plotting a cultural invasion of the country’s universities. “The enemies are making efforts to replace the Islamic atmosphere in [Iranian] universities with their liberal democratic environment,” Daneshjoo said Sunday, referring to remarks by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution. Imam Seyyed [...]

Iran’s new ambassador to Iraq says high on his agenda is to settle the remaining issues in mutual relations such as the Algiers Accord and common oil fields. “Among the most significant issues on the agenda …are to … settle the remaining cases from the past such as the 1975 (Algiers) Accord , common oil [...]

Iran has launched more than 4,000 telecommunication and postal projects worth up to 1,900 billion rials (around 200 million dollars) in four provinces. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated the projects in the Provinces of Khorasan Razavi, Kerman, Bushehr and Isfahan through video conference on Sunday, IRIB reported. Promotion of national data network is among the [...]

Iran plans to pump more crude from three oil fields shared with Oman, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia in the Persian Gulf, an Iranian energy official says. The oil-rich country is scheduled to increase its oil production of the fields by 30,000 barrels per day or 20 percent, Mahmoud Zirakchianzadeh, managing director [...]