Iran holds Syria reconciliation conferenceIran says it has held a conference to reconcile Syria's government with opposition factions and end the country's civil war.The conference is seen as a reaction to last week's meeting in Qatar in which opposition groups formed an umbrella coalition to topple Assad.
Iran warns against arming Syrian rebels
Iran on Sunday warned against sending weapons to Syrian rebels battling its ally in Damascus, saying that this would threaten regional stability and increase the "risk of terrorism.""Some countries envisage arming the opposition with heavy and semi-heavy weaponry," Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said in a speech to open an inter-Syria dialogue in Tehran.
Iran expects regional countries to arm Palestinians
Iran expects regional countries to send weapons to the Palestinians to help them fight Israel, parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani said on Sunday."Although political measures taken by the regional countries are admirable, they are definitely not sufficient," Larijani said.
Era of cheap oil is over, Iran says
Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi has said that the era of cheap oil has come to an end, predicting that oil prices will further increase.Rosram Qasemi expressed satisfaction over the current prices of $100-108 per barrel, adding that the prices will go on rising in the near future.
Iran denies supplying Fajr 5 rockets to Gaza
A senior Iranian official has denied his country supplied the Fajr 5 missiles which Palestinian militants have been firing at Tel Aviv, Irans al-Alam television reported on Saturday.We deny having delivered the Fajr 5 to the Palestinian resistance. The aim of such accusations is to portray the resistance as weak whereas it is perfectly capable of producing the arms it needs, said Allaeddine Boroujerdi, head of parliaments foreign affairs committee.
Iran delays planned start-up of Arak nuclear reactor
Iran has postponed until 2014 the planned start-up of a research reactor which Western experts say could potentially offer the Islamic Republic a second route to produce material for a nuclear bomb, a U.N. report showed.
