Topic: Ali Asghar

Iran called for a ban on attacks against nuclear facilities and proposed a fall conference to enact one, an Iranian envoy said Friday.

Iran plans to diversify its export strategy for natural resources to move away from commitments to crude oil as officials predict static market conditions.

Iran can manage any shortages of gas supplies that may result from tightened punitive economic sanctions imposed by Washington, officials said.

The Iranian Solidarity Party with the Reformist slate threw its support Wednesday behind Mir-Hossein Mousavi for the presidency in the June contest.

The U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency has allowed politics to cloud its work on Iran's nuclear issues, Tehran officials charge.

Iranian officials say the International Atomic Energy Agency isn't doing a good enough job preventing information leaks to the news media.

Pakistani officials say they have arrested five people in the abduction of an Iranian diplomat kidnapped last week in northwestern Pakistan.

Western negotiators have given Iran more time to respond to pleas that it suspend its nuclear enrichment program or face new sanctions, sources said Sunday.

Threats of new sanctions against Iran could compromise negotiations between the West and the Islamic republic, an Iranian official said Thursday.

Tehran officials claim the United States is giving false evidence and documents to the U.N. watchdog group looking over Iran's nuclear program.