TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran said on Tuesday it had agreed to a visit by EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana to submit an upgraded package of incentives aimed at persuading Tehran into giving up its NPT right of uranium enrichment.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Foreign investors are welcome to participate in both upstream and downstream projects of Iran’s petrochemical industry, Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Basij (volunteer) forces are to start patrolling streets in urban areas across Iran to try to help police curb security threats, a Basij commander said on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- A group of cultural heritage guards in Iran’s northwestern province of Zanjan has recently stumbled on a historical gravestone in the Dahaneh village near the town of Tarom.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The gas to be produced from Iran’s South Pars Field will likely be retained for domestic use, an executive of the oil major Royal Dutch Shell said.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran protested to the United States on Wednesday over a US-based counter-revolutionary group responsible for a deadly mosque bombing.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei met with the Eritrea’s visiting President, Isaias Afwerki here in Tehran on Tuesday.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The Afghan army could by early next year be leading the vast majority of military operations against enemy insurgents in the country, the U.S. soldier in charge of training them said on Thursday.

HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) – A protest over the shooting of the Koran by a U.S. soldier in Iraq turned violent in Afghanistan on Thursday, killing a Lithuanian soldier and two Afghan civilians.

KHAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Gunmen shot dead a Pakistani journalist on Thursday in the Bajaur region on the Afghan border where al Qaeda linked militants have been known to operate, his company and residents said.