TEHRAN, October 18 - Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to visit Uzbekistan under its new leadership on Thursday in an attempt to revive multifaceted relations and discuss prospects for the strengthening of ties.
TEHRAN, August 12 - A delegation from the Afghan Taliban met officials in Uzbekistan during a five-day trip to the country last week to discuss issues including transport and power lines and peace in Afghanistan, the movement's political office said.
TEHRAN, August 12 - Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has arrived in Kazakhstan to take part in a summit of the five Caspian littoral states to conclude a landmark convention on the legal status of the inland waters.
TEHRAN, August 12 - Representatives from Afghanistan’s Taliban militant group have held talks with senior officials in Uzbekistan, reportedly discussing a range of issues including transport, power lines, and the prospect of peace in war-torn Afghanistan.
TEHRAN, March 27 - Uzbekistan threw open its doors Tuesday for a multilateral meeting on Afghanistan aiming to lay the ground for direct talks between Kabul and the Taliban.
TEHRAN, February 11 - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif and his Tajik counterpart Abdulaziz Kamilov discussed ways to expand bilateral ties as well as regional and international matters.
TEHRAN, February 10 - Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov is in Tehran to discuss issues of mutual interests as well as key regional and international developments with senior Iranian officials.
TEHRAN, December 8 - Afghanistan and Uzbekistan have signed an agreement to extend a railway between the two countries which could give Uzbekistan a strategic access to the Persian Gulf through Iran.
TEHRAN, November 11 - Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has met with his Uzbek counterpart Abdulaziz Kamilov in Samarkand.
In the Friday meeting, the two sides discussed the development of bilateral and regional cooperation.
TEHRAN, November 1 - The man accused of plowing into people on a lower Manhattan bike path Tuesday had apparently been planning the attack for a number of weeks, police officials said.
TEHRAN, October 17 - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif and Uzbek Deputy Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov signed an agreement on cooperation program between foreign ministries of the two countries, stressing boosting all-out ties between Tehran and Dushanbe.
TEHRAN, July 31, YJC - An industrial city has been grown in Uzbekistan near the world's largest open pit gold mine. The prosperous city is called Zarafshan, which translates as 'gold spreading'. The city situated in the Kyzyl desert has the gold mine measuring 4 kilometers long, 2.5 kilometers wide and 600 meters deep. 50 million cubic meters of ore are extracted from the mine every year. Gold is extracted using the heap leaching method which has proven to be efficient, even for low grade ores. According to geologists, the gold resources in the mine will last for at least 200 years. Over the last years, gold has replaced cotton, a traditional Uzbek export, as the foreign trade priority and has diversified the country's economy.
An explosion which hit chemical plant Farg’onaazot, a producer of nitrogen fertilizers, in the east of Uzbekistan, on Thursday left at least five people dead and several injured, a source at the plant told Sputnik Friday.