Eurasia Press & News

Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Mostafa Mohammad Najjar is scheduled to pay a visit to Armenia on Tuesday at the head of a high-ranking delegation.

An earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale jolted the area in the vicinity of the city of Sorkheh in Iran’s northern province of Semnan on Sunday.

President of Turkey’s TRT television met with the head of Iran’s state-run TV, Ezzatollah Zarqami, on the sidelines of the 44th general assembly of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) here in Tehran on Sunday.

There has been a flurry of diplomatic activity involving Tehran, Baghdad, Ankara and Washington to defuse tensions along the border between Turkey and northern Iraq.

Iran welcomed a recent Arab proposal to set up a consortium to provide Mideast countries with enriched uranium but said it would not halt its own enrichment activities

China urged Iran Saturday to further cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and create favorable conditions for further talks on the nuclear issue.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reiterated on Saturday that his country’s nuclear issue is already closed.

The United States Sunday praised the Iraqi government for helping to secure the release of eight Turkish soldiers abducted by Kurdish rebels two weeks ago during a battle that heightened tensions along the Iraq-Turkey border.

Participants of an international conference discussing Iraq in Ä°stanbul condemned terrorism and said Iraqi territory should not be used for terrorist attacks on other countries.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan suggested yesterday that Turkey might impose economic sanctions to force Iraqi Kurds to crack down on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) — which has bases in Iraq’s Kurdish-run north — saying Turkey’s developing economy is a part of its political and diplomatic might.