TEHRAN, Dec. 15 (MNA)--The second brand-choosing festival ended in Tehran on Tuesday by choosing 100 top brands.

ISTANBUL, Dec. 15 (MNA) -- Iran has been drawn in Group B of next summer’s FIBA World Championship, in a ceremony held in Istanbul on Tuesday.

TEHRAN, Dec. 15 (MNA) -- Health Minister Marziyeh Vahid-Dastjerdi here on Tuesday said that Iran is pioneer in preventing natural disasters.

TEHRAN, Dec. 15 (MNA) – The phases 17 and 18 of giant South Pars gas field were 34 percent complete by the end of Iranian month of Aban (November 21).

TEHRAN, Dec. 15 (MNA) -- A storyteller from Kyrgyzstan participating in a festival here says he is fascinated by Persian epic stories and would like to relate them to children in his homeland.

TEHRAN, Dec. 15 (MNA) -- James Dobbins, the former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, says Washington supports negotiations with Taliban.

TEHRAN, Dec. 15 (MNA) - Mohammad Saeedi has resigned as the deputy director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), the organization said in a press release on Tuesday.

TEHRAN, Dec. 15 (MNA) -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says that the subsidy reform plan can only be implemented through comprehensive cooperation between the administration and the Majlis.

TEHRAN, Dec. 15 (MNA) -- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has called on Iraq to participate in regional and security arrangements.

TEHRAN, Dec. 14 (MNA) -- Iran has not received any official response to its proposal to swap its low-enriched uranium for nuclear fuel, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Monday.