YEREVAN, JULY 27, ARMENPRESS: Russia has branded EU sanctions against Iran as 

YEREVAN, JULY 24, ARMENPRESS. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday that Iran would send its first manned shuttle into space by 2019, Iran's English-language Press TV reported, Armenpress reports citing Reuters. 

YEREVAN, JULY 15, ARMENPRESS. An Iranian nuclear scientist who says he was abducted by CIA agents a year ago returned home from the United States early on Thursday saying he was pressured to lie about Iran's nuclear programme, Armenpress reports citing Reuters. 

YEREVAN, JULY 14, ARMENPRESS. An Iranian nuclear scientist who claims he was abducted by CIA agents last year and taken to the US is on his way back to Tehran, Iran says. 

YEREVAN, JULY 13, ARMENPRESS. A missing Iranian nuclear scientist, who Tehran says was kidnapped a year ago by the CIA, has taken refuge in the Iran section of Pakistan's US embassy, Armenpress reports citing BBC News. 

TBILISI, JULY 8, ARMENPRESS: Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov received yesterday Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze who was in Baku on a working visit. Press service of the Georgian Foreign Ministry reported that during the meeting the parties discussed situation created over the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, referred to the processes, projects carried out in the South Caucasian and Caspian region. 

YEREVAN, JULY 6, ARMENPRESS. Iranian planes continue to refuel at airports around the world, an official said on Tuesday, a day after an Iranian news report said aircraft had been denied fuel in Germany, Britain and a Gulf Arab state due to U.S. sanctions, Armenpress reports citing Reuters. 

ASTANA, JULY 5, ARMENPRESS: The presidents of Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan have launched a summit of the Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC) which is also attended by their Armenian and Ukrainian colleagues (these countries are EurAsEC observers). The talks are being held at the Akorda Palace. 

YEREVAN, JULY 1, ARMENPRESS. Israel and Turkey have held their first high-level meeting since the row over the killing of Turkish activists on an aid ship bound for Gaza, officials say, Armenpress reports citing BBC News. 

YEREVAN, JUNE 29, ARMENPRESS. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran is willing to resume nuclear talks, but not until August, so as to 

YEREVAN, JUNE 11, ARMENPRESS. Britain led calls on Thursday for harsher penalties to be imposed on Iran, as Tehran defied a compromise U.N. sanctions resolution to punish it for its suspected nuclear weapons programme, Armenpress reports citing Reuters. 

UNITED NATIONS, JUNE 10, ITAR_TASS. UN Security Council has introduced by a majority vote a number of additional sanctions against Iran, Armenpress reports citing Itar-Tass. 

WASHINGTON, JUNE 9, ARMENPRESS: A new draft U.N. Security Council resolution on Iran due for vote on Wednesday provides for the toughest sanctions Tehran has ever faced, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a news conference in Ecuador’s Quito on Tuesday, Armenpress reports citing Itar-Tass. 

YEREVAN, JUNE 8, ARMENPRESS. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has struck a defiant note ahead of a vote due this week on new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme, Armenpress reports citing BBC News. 

YEREVAN, JUNE 3, ARMENPRESS. Turkey is holding funerals for nine activists killed when Israeli forces stormed their Gaza-bound aid flotilla, Armenpress reports citing BBC News. 

ANKARA, JUNE 2, ARMENPRESS: Three planes belonging to the Turkish Airlines left for Israel on Wednesday to bring home Turkish citizens detained during an attack on ships of a humanitarian ship convoy heading for Gaza, Anatolia News Agency said. 

ANKARA, MAY 25, ANKARA. Several Russian tourists injured in the Turkey bus crash are in serious condition, and the Turkish driver is among the fatalities, Russian consul general Mirdzhalol Khusanov told Itar-Tass on Tuesday, Armenpress reports. 

MOSCOW, MAY 25, ARMENPRESS: Iran will revise an uranium exchange agreement, which Iran, Brazil and Turkey reached in Tehran, if the UN Security Council imposes new sanctions against the country, Iranian Ambassador in Moscow Mahmoud Reza Sajadi said on Tuesday, Armenpress reports citing Itar-Tass. 

TBILISI, MAY 24, ARMENPRESS. Georgia’s private carrier Georgian Airways launches on Monday charter flights between Tbilisi and Moscow. Later on Monday a Boeing 737 plane that can take on board 120 people will fly from the capital of Georgia to Moscow’s Domodedovo airport, and in the evening it will return to Tbilisi, Armenpress reports citing Itar-Tass. 

RABAT, MAY 24, ARMENPRESS. Iran has sent a letter on the uranium exchange agreement with Turkey and Brazil to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Iranian news agency IRNA said on Sunday.