Iran

President Mahmud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that the administration has made every effort to draft a transparent and simply-worded budget plan, which is a significant development in the history of budget drafting in the country.

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has called for the full participation of Iranians in the parliamentary elections, advising them to choose the most qualified nominees with careful attention.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Presidents of Iran and Comoros in a phone conversation on Tuesday stressed development of mutual relations.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Iran said it hoped Palestinian issue would be resolved through the implementation of a Tehran plan which calls for the restoration of Palestinians’ rights.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Iran’s former nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani termed Iran-Egypt relations as progressive, saying that both sides are active to boost cooperation in different grounds.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Iran’s gas sales to Turkey reduced following the spread of a freezing cold weather across the country and a subsequent cut in Iran’s imports from Turkmenistan, an informed source said.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Iran and the Italian power company Edison were nearing on an agreement to pump more than a billion cubic feet of Iranian gas to Europe per day, the Iranian oil minister said last week.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Iran’s former nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani stated that international circumstances and regional changes, including “the weakening of the exclusive role of America in the region,” are encouraging Egypt and Iran to increase their mutual cooperation.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Iran expects deliveries of natural gas from neighboring Turkmenistan to be restored by the end of the week, an Iranian official said on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Iranian scientists said Monday that the country’s first cloned sheep is thriving 15 months after birth, eating well and frolicking among a flock of normal sheep.