Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 18 – Iran has imported some 630,000 tons of rice, worth 271 million dollars, in the first seven months of the Persian calendar year.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 18 – Turkey is considering to carry out a joint investment with Iran in the South Pars gas field, Iranian state media reported.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 18 – Turkey has asked Iran to increase its export of natural gas to its north-western neighbour by up to 80 percent, Iranian state media reported.

AFP: Federal prosecutors on Monday indicted two men on charges of illegally trading with Iran since 2002, the US Department of Justice reported.

Reuters: Iran denied Monday a report it had detained 10 spies who had entered the Islamic Republic illegally from neighboring Pakistan.

AFP: Three Kuwaiti Islamist MPs said on Sunday they will file a request to grill the prime minister for allowing a prominent Iranian Shiite cleric to enter the Gulf state despite a legal ban.

AFP: Iranian MPs denounced "the crisis in Gaza" and asked Islamic organisations to respond to "cries" from Gaza's people, Iran's labour news agency ILNA reported on Sunday.