Gaza blockade jeopardizing health of 1.4m people, UN warns
TEHRAN, Jan. 23 (MNA) — UN agencies and their non-governmental partners on Thursday warned of the impact of the Israeli blockade on Gaza’s population and on health services.
Tehran sets conditions for attending London conference on Afghanistan
TEHRAN, Jan. 23 (MNA) -- Iran has set conditions for participating in a conference on Afghanistan in London on January 28.
Iran, Pakistan to sign IPI accord next week
TEHRAN, Jan.
‘West’s confrontationists losing momentum in nuclear row’: Iran
TEHRAN, Jan. 22 (MNA) -- Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Director Ali Akbar Salehi says there are two lines of thought in the West on the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program.
‘Key figures should not be driven off the political stage’: Iran's Parliament speaker
SAVEH, Jan. 22 (MNA) -- Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani has said that key figures should not be driven off the political stage due to minor differences.
4 Iranian pilgrims killed as bus veers off road in Syria
DAMASCUS, Syria, Jan. 22 (MNA) – Four Iranian pilgrims were killed and 35 others wounded as a bus veered off the road near Damascus, Syria, on Friday morning.
Tehran, Islamabad to sign IPI accord next week
TEHRAN, Jan.
Russia: Bushehr nuclear plant will be operational in 2010
The chief of Russia's state nuclear corporation announced on Thursday that Moscow will start up Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant this year.
Iran gasoline stock surpasses 2.3b liters
TEHRAN, Jan. 22 (MNA) -- Iran boosted its gasoline inventories by 750 million liters in the first ten months of the current calendar year (began March 21, 2009) compared to the preceding year.
Iranian weightlifter banned for life
TEHRAN, Jan. 22 (MNA) -- Iranian weightlifter Omid Naiij Kenari has been given a life ban by the International Weightlifting Federation after a second doping offence.
