July 31 A 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck Iran's southern province of Kerman on Saturday, disrupting communications but with no immediate reports of casualties, state media said.
It comes a day after a similar quake shook Iran's northeastern province of Khorasan Razavi, injuring 170 people.
The earthquake struck Kerman at 11:22 am (0652 GMT) on Saturday, the website of state television reported, citing the geophysics department of Tehran university./-
July 30 - Iran's atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi said on Friday that Tehran was ready to hold talks with the United States, Russia and France "in the next few days" on a nuclear fuel swap.
"We are ready even in the next few days to start negotiations with the other parties" over the fuel swap, Salehi was quoted as saying by Mehr news agency./-
July 31 – Iran has extended a 40-million-euro line of credit to Zimbabwe to finance energy, banking and industrial projects in the African country, a diplomatic source says.
The funds would be used to rehabilitate the country's main power station to increase electricity supplies and reduce rationing, the Panafrican news agency quoted Zimbabwe's Ambassador to Iran as saying on Thursday.
Nicholas Kitikiti said, referring to the Iranian credit line Zimbabwe had already opened negotiations with Iran for further lines of credit covering the agriculture, health and technology sectors.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmajinejad visited Zimbabwe in April and signed several cooperation agreements with the country's public and private sector companies.
There are however critics at home regarding foreign credits. Iranian lawmakers says such moves need the approval of the parliament pointing to the $280 m credit line Iran has granted to Bolivia and another $225 m to Venezuela last year./-
