ISTANBUL, Turkey, March 23 (UPI) -- Syria and Iran called for improved relations and joint cooperation regarding water resources on the sidelines of an international forum in Istanbul.

TEHRAN, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- The domestic power grid in Iran has increased seven-fold since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Iranian Energy Minister Parviz Fattah said Monday.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Iranian and Pakistani officials are meeting in Islamabad to discuss cooperation on energy.

BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 2 (UPI) -- Azerbaijan, Turkey, Georgia, Iran and Russia are in talks to join their power grids.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 21 (UPI) -- Pakistan is facing an acute power shortage that is hurting the economy, the minister of water and power warned, noting the need for conservation.

TEHRAN, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Iranian Energy Minister Parviz Fattah said Sunday construction has started on the nation's first nuclear power plant to be built by domestic experts.

One casualty of the Bush administration's ambiguous attempts to mollify Turkey over the issue of clamping down on Kurdish insurgents in northern Iraq may well be Washington's larger agenda of isolating Iran.