MNA Indias Former Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid praised Iran's outstanding role in international level and said, Islamic Republic of Iran under President Rouhani is a valuable and precious friend to India, so that this relationship should be maintained intact. He pointed to the amicable and intimate relationship between Iran and India and ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Tehran is all set to punish Islamabad for its failure to lay down the 781-kilometer-long pipeline in Pakistans territory under the Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline by initiating a new project of Iran-Oman-India (IOI) undersea gas pipeline, a senior Pakistani official at the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources said. Indian Foreign ...

India will on Friday open formal talks with Iran and Oman for a deep-sea gas pipeline three decades after the idea was floated when external affairs minister Salman Khurshid meets foreign ministers of the two countries. Khurshid is to meet Omans foreign minister Yousuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah in the afternoon and his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif ...

[caption id="attachment_86316" align="alignright" width="180"] Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid delivers a speech during the fifth R.K. Mishra Memorial Lecture, organized by the Observer Research Foundation, in New Delhi, February 27, 2014.[/caption] Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid says no one can deprive Iran ...

New Delhi, Feb 27, IRNA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Thursday morning arrived in New Delhi on a two-day official visit to India. He is will hold talks with External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on a range of bilateral, regional and international issues of mutual interest. Around two years ago, the then Foreign Minister of ...

New Delhi, Feb 21, IRNA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will arrive in New Delhi on February 27 on a two-day India visit. He is expected to hold talks with External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on a range of bilateral, regional and international issues of mutual interest, pti quoted the spokesperson in Ministry of External Affairs ...

NEW DELHI: India says that it has not backed out of the Iran-Pakistan Gas Pipeline project, rather it was an excellent Confidence Building Measure (CBM) between the two neighbours as it would create 'inter-dependency' between India and Pakistan. "If we get cheap gas from Iran and Central Asia till Pakistan, it will be expensive but if India can come ...

Indian Minister of External Affairs Salman Khurshid has welcomed the recent interim deal between Iran and six major world powers over Tehrans nuclear energy program, stating that the accord benefits the entire world. In an exclusive interview with IRNA in New Delhi on Thursday, Khurshid described the agreement between Iran and the five permanent members ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshidreiterated that Iran is not seeking nuclear weapons, adding that Tehran should be treated with respectful manner. "I was convinced in all my interaction with Iran that Iran was not determined to make nuclear weapons, but it was important for them that their position and identity be seen and sense ...

Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has described Tehran-New Delhi relations as strong, saying bilateral ties can contribute to the stability in war-torn Afghanistan. Iran and India are two friendly countries, which can join hands in playing a major role in Afghanistan after 2014, Khurshid told IRNA. He stressed the importance of closer ...

United Nations, Sept27, IRNA Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid described Tehran-New Delhi ties as solid. He made the remarks here in an exclusive interview with IRNA on the sideline of the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly. He said relations with Iran is important for the future of Afghanistan and peace and stability in ...

Indiasaid Tuesday it only subscribes to the UN sanctions onIranand not the US ones amid indications it may be looking to Tehran for importing crude. "We don't subscribe to the US sanctions, we subscribe to the UN sanctions. We were party to the UN sanctions, to the UN resolution and voted for it," said External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid to ...

[caption id="attachment_31367" align="alignright" width="210"] A cargo ship docks at Iran's Chabahar Free Trade-Industrial Zone.[/caption] Indiawill soon send a delegation toIranto discuss upgradation of the strategically important Chabahar port and the two sides will begin negotiations on a trilateral transit agreement to ship goods to the landlockedAfghanistan....

The former European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana, heading a delegation, is one of the two special guests who arrived here Saturday morning. He is to have a meeting with the Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani this evening. Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota arrived here Saturday morning and is to meet with his Iranian counterpart ...

The inauguration of the Seventh President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, over the weekend has an unusual international flavour. Rouhani formally takes charge on Saturday after Ayatoallah Khamenei, the real wielder of power in Iran, endorses him. Tehran has broken the convention this year by inviting world leaders to join the formal ...

Irans Ambassador to New Delhi Gholam Reza Ansari says Tehran favors economic stability and development in the region as it believes this is in the interest of all regional states, particularly the Islamic Republic. Addressing students at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi on Thursday, Ansari pointed to Irans efforts to become an economic heavyweight ...

A stableAfghanistanandIranare critical to India'senergy security, as these two countries can provide greater access to Central Asian region, which has abundance of hydrocarbon wealth, External Affairs MinisterSalman Khurshidsaid on Saturday. "We are looking at re-energising the national North-South Corridor to connect India with Central Asia and Russia ...

(Reuters) - The United States sees India's reductions in imports of oil from Iran as an "important step" in bringing pressure on Tehran over its nuclear programme, Secretary of State John Kerry said. "We are appreciative that India has worked hard to reduce its dependency on Iranian oil and that has been an important step," Kerry said at a press conference ...

India has welcomed the election of Hassan Rohani as the Islamic Republics president,Press TVreports. Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid, who was on a two-day visit to Iraq, said on Friday that Rohanis victory is a welcome sign and an outcome of Iranian democracy. Following Rohanis victory, the two countries are widely expected to boost their ...

New Delhi asked Tehran to mention only Afghanistan as key reason for Chabahar port pact India has managed to balance the task of assuaging American paranoia about dealing with Tehran as well as confirming with Iran plans to participate in developing a port during External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshids recent visit to Iran. These mutually clashing ...