Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 19 – The 18th international conference on the Persian Gulf is due to be held in Iran on 16-17 June, state media reported on Saturday.
Iran to host 18th Persian Gulf conference
Iran slams US for bombings in Baghdad militia bastion
AFP: Iran lashed out at the US military on Saturday for carrying out air strikes in Baghdad's Sadr City, the bastion of Shiite militias Washington says are backed by Tehran-based groups.
Iran warns Germany over economic loss
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 19 – Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister has warned Germany that it would “lose out” if it did not take the “ideal opportunity” to sustain trade.
Iran warns Germany over economic loss
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 19 – Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister has warned Germany that it would “lose out” if it did not take the “ideal opportunity” to sustain trade.
Iran would accept “logical” Turkmen gas price rise
Reuters: Iran would accept a "logical increase" in the price of natural gas imported from neighbouring Turkmenistan, a senior energy official was quoted as saying on Saturday.
Iran says oil price too low at 115 dollars a barrel
AFP: Even at 115 dollars a barrel, oil is priced too low, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in comments published on Saturday adding that the commodity "should find its real value".
Victims of 1983 bombing of U.S. Embassy in Beirut recalled
Los Angeles Times: The explosion shook the earth. And it wouldn't be the last one. Twenty-five years ago Friday, a suicide bomber drove a pickup truck full of explosives into the U.S. Embassy in downtown Beirut, killing 63 people. It heralded the rise in the Middle East of a soon-to-be common tool in the arsenal of radicals: the suicide bomb.
Iran should defend Islamic world: top cleric
AFP: A high-ranking Iranian cleric on Friday said the country should grow into a military super power to defend all Muslims, following an army parade at a time of mounting tension with the West.
IAEA to press arms issue in Iran talks
Reuters: The U.N. nuclear watchdog's top investigator will launch talks in Tehran on Monday to press for Iranian answers to Western intelligence alleging that Iran covertly studied how to design atomic bombs.
Top Iran lawmaker: We will never abandon enrichment
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 18 – A senior official in Iran’s hard-line dominated Majlis (Parliament) has stressed that "resolutions and sanctions imposed against Iran will never stop the country's nuclear program”, state media reported on Thursday.
