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TEHRAN Studies show that 37 foreign companies have announced readiness since mid-summer to invest in Iran's mining projects, Iran's deputy minister of industry said.

The White House on Thursday said a new sanctions bill against Iran would disrupt diplomacy aimed at preventing Teheran from building a nuclear weapon, and added that sanctions could quickly be imposed if efforts to reach a deal fail.

Iranian authorities have prevented attempted sabotage at the country's heavy water nuclear reactor, a senior official said Saturday without giving specifics as to the nature of the attempted disruption or its suspected initiator.

By Fatih Karimov - Trend: Iran has neutralized the sabotage at its IR-40 nuclear site, the Mehr News Agency quoted Ali Asghar Zare'an, an official at the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, as saying on March 15. IR-40 is a 40 megawatt heavy water reactor which is being constructed in the Iranian city of Arak.

The Russian press added that "A Kremlin statement said Putin had underlined to Rouhani that any solution to the Ukrainian crisis must take into account the interests and the will of people in all of the former Soviet state's regions."

In 1991, the U.S. and Russia agreed to historic reductions in nuclear weapons. But there was a hitch: Russia didn't exactly own all of its nukes.

Iran is to send a judicial delegation to Turkey in search of the overseas assets of arrested Iranian businessman, Babak Zanjani, an alleged partner of the Iranian-origin businessman and gold dealer, Reza Zarrab, who is the prime suspect in Turkey's ongoing high-level graft probe Hurriyet Daily News reported.

MEMRI. Org: Speaking at a conference held in Tehran, Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps Deputy Commander Brigadier-General Hossein Salami said: "We, here, can muster all our energies in order to annihilate the Zionist entity, more than 1,400 kilometers away.

The Irish playwright, Samuel Beckett dramatized endless waiting in vain for someone named Godot.

Azerbaijan, Turkey and Iran are considering the possibilities of connecting their railways, Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan, Elmar Mammadyarov said on March 14, after the meeting of the three countries' foreign ministers in Van .

By Azzah Mohamad Som KUALA LUMPUR, March 14 -- Iran said Friday it is ready to provide any kind of assistance upon request to help Malaysia find a missing commercial airliner.

Welcome to Iran, the country of contrasts. It is hard to believe but some senior clerics in Iran still insist on boycotting the Islamic Republic's State TV channels for broadcasting music.

The United States has not yet lifted sanctions against the Iranian shipping industry, ISNA quoted Masoud Daneshmand, an official at Iran's chamber of commerce, as saying on March 14. The issue of lifting sanctions on 11 shipping lines affiliated with the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines has been raised by the EU, he said, adding that the ... (more)

The Russian press added that "A Kremlin statement said Putin had underlined to Rouhani that any solution to the Ukrainian crisis must take into account the interests and the will of people in all of the former Soviet state's regions."

Iran has to take some "tough decisions" as world powers seek to hammer out a nuclear deal, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday, according to AFP .

The United Nations Special Rapporteurs* on the situation of human rights in Iran, on summary executions, on torture, and on violence against women expressed alarm today at the ongoing spike in executions in the country; which recently included the hanging of a former child bride amid questionable circumstances.

Police and investigators look at what remains of the flight deck of Pan Am 103 in a field in Lockerbie, Scotland, December 22, 1988.

Oil Minister Bijan Namdar-Zanganeh arrived in Moscow late Thursday at the head of a delegation to hold talks with Russian officials, IRNA reported.

Last year I had the opportunity to speak with former Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama White House officials, about the history of efforts at diplomacy with the Iranian regime -- on behalf of America Abroad, a Public Radio International broadcast.

Oman's Sultan Qaboos bin Said meets with Iran's President Hassan Rouhani in Muscat March 12, 2014.