Eurasia Press & News

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Government Spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham said Tehran will not back down on its nuclear stance despite the threat of tighter sanctions.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Rising OPEC output has cut the group’s spare capacity and left the oil market vulnerable to any surprise supply disruptions, Iran’s OPEC governor said on Sunday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Pakistan signed an agreement with Iran to import 1,000 megawatts of electricity to overcome the power shortage in the country and Iran would finance the project’s completion, a senior official in Pakistan’s Water and Power Ministry said on Sunday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- OPEC members should keep oil output within the group’s agreed targets, OPEC’s President Chakib Khelil said in remarks published on Monday.

The separatist region of Abkhazia has declared a 10-day ‘state of war’ in its territories close to the de facto borders with Georgia.

The White House has orchestrated the current conflict between Russia and Georgia in South Ossetia, a high-ranking Russian official says.

Syria has rejected the IAEA’s request for a second inspection of its alleged nuclear site, bombed by Israel last September.

Central Bank of Iran says rising inflation in recent years has intensified the need for a change in the nation’s currency system.

 Iran’s Defense Ministry has announced plans to make public details of the latest developments in the country’s weapons arsenal.

CAIRO (Reuters) – The Sunday edition of the independent Egyptian newspaper al-Dustour, which contained a story about the murder of a Lebanese singer in Dubai, disappeared from the market on Saturday, officials said.