A top Iranian official says the country's oil exports have been slashed 40 percent in the past nine months by Western sanctions.

• Date: 08.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 08.01.2013  |  Energy  |  from rferl.org

Iran says it agrees in principle to resume international talks on its controversial nuclear program later this month.

• Date: 04.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 04.01.2013  |  Security  |  from rferl.org

A major Iranian partner of Huawei Technologies offered to sell at least 1.3 million euros worth of embargoed Hewlett-Packard (HP) computer equipment to Iran’s largest mobile phone operator in late 2010, documents show.

• Date: 02.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 02.01.2013  |  Markets  |  from itweb.co.za

Russian leaders come to India for a few hours and go back with defence deals worth billions. Much like last year, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, was in India on Monday for less than 24 hours and the two nations ended up signing deals worth $4 billion.

• Date: 02.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 02.01.2013  |  External Relations  |  from defence.pk

Russia has concluded a challenging 2012 in India with three deals involving additional fighter aircraft and helicopters.

• Date: 31.12.2012  |  Published on EGF: 31.12.2012  |  Energy  |  from flightglobal.com

India's pet project to link south with central Asia got support from Russian president Vladimir Putin. During their talks in New Delhi last week, Singh and Putin agreed to unfreeze the north-south corridor through Iran within the next year. India has taken the lead role in pushing for the completion of this project.

• Date: 31.12.2012  |  Published on EGF: 31.12.2012  |  Energy  |  from pakistanaffairs.pk

Pakistani hardline party Jamaat-e-Islami's (JI) chief Azad Kashmir Abdur Rasheed Turrabi has said the discussions between Pakistan and India would not be proved fruitful until the latter took serious steps towards resolution of Kashmir issue.

• Date: 31.12.2012  |  Published on EGF: 31.12.2012  |  Energy  |  from yahoo.com

Around 135,000 tons of liquefied gas has been extracted and supplied to consumers in Turkmenistan since early 2012. The main volume is intended for export, the Turkmen Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources said on Thursday.

• Date: 29.12.2012  |  Published on EGF: 29.12.2012  |  Energy  |  from oananews.org