Eurasia Press & News

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyah held talks in Doha, Qatar on Friday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was seen off by Iran’s first Vice-President Parviz Dawoodi and left Tehran for Ankara on Sunday.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani discussed bilateral relations, latest international developments, and regional issues in Doha on Friday.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad officially welcomed his Gambian counterpart, Yahya Jammeh, at the Presidential Office on Saturday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian and Turkish presidents in a meeting here on Sunday stressed that the two countries’ trade exchanges should be increased to $10 bln.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Depriving developing countries of the nuclear technology is a defined strategy of the western states, said Iran’s Ambassador to Thailand on Saturday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini stressed that Iran would continue its nuclear activities within the international and Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) rules and regulations.

Russian-language media in the United States are divided over whether the Nov. 24 death-by-poison of writer and former Russian secret agent Alexander Litvinenko was government-backed or intended to frame Putin, though most agree Alexander Litvinenko is a curious target. 

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyah is due to arrive in Tehran within the next few days.

UK’s News of the World newspaper claims that they know who poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, but only print his middle name – Igor “for legal reasons.”