TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in separate messages to Emperor Akihito and Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda on Sunday extended his congratulations to the Japanese government and nation on the country’s national day.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran has ruled out supplying natural gas to Dana Gas unless the UAE company agrees to pay higher prices.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran on Saturday started to allow motorists an extra 20 liters (5.2 gallons) of petrol a month under a rationing scheme aimed at cutting back on frenzied consumption.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran has $8 billion in its Oil Stabilization Fund (OSF), which forms part of the country’s foreign reserves, the central bank’s website quoted Governor Tahmasb Mazaheri as saying.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad described Tehran-Riyadh relations as friendly, saying that his participation in the greatest Muslim congregation, Hajj, promulgated a message of increased solidarity and brotherhood among Islamic countries.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s police chief General Esmayeel Ahmadi Moghaddam Thursday stressed that his forces will continue the plan for the promotion of security in the society.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Thursday said the unyielding resistance of the Palestinian nation promises a strong victory against the Zionist regime.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- An Iranian health official said that his country will announce good news about success in developing a new medicine in the coming Ten Day Dawn – from February 1-11 (marking the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979).

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran has signaled a strong interest in solar power, and plan to build the Middle East’s biggest photovoltaic plant in the tourist city of Yazd.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Around two million Muslims massed in the holy Saudi city of Mina on Wednesday for the symbolic stoning of the devil, one of the high points of the annual hajj.