TEHRAN, Jan 28 - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif voiced the country’s readiness to implement joint projects with neighboring Turkmenistan in the Caspian Sea.
TEHRAN, November 12 - Turkmenistan will allocate funds for the construction of a mosque in the Afghan settlement of Aqina, Altyn Asyr local TV channel reported.
TEHRAN, October 17 - An Iranian deputy minister said the dispute between Iran and Turkmenistan over natural gas trade has gone to arbitration, noting that both sides have filed lawsuits against each other.
TEHRAN, September 12 - The Iranian president’s chief of staff, Mahmoud Vaezi, has made a trip to Turkmenistan to hold talks with senior officials of the country on a range of issues, including ways to boost Tehran-Ashgabat ties in various areas.
TEHRAN, September 09 - Turkmenistan has inaugurated a large gas-powered electricity plant that is expected to sell about 3 billion kilowatt-hours of power a year to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
TEHRAN, May 4 - The Iran women's national futsal team has chalked up its first resounding win at the 2018 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Women's Futsal Championship, thrashing the Turkmen squad in the group stage of the continental tournament.
TEHRAN, April 08 - Iran said it has resumed a strategic scheme that involves swapping Turkmenistan’s natural gas with equal volumes for exports to Azerbaijan.
TEHRAN, March 29 - Energy Minister Ardekanian said Wed. that the second power transmission line from Turkmenistan to Iran will come back on stream after six months of having been out of service.
TEHRAN, March 25 - Voting was underway in Turkmenistan Sunday in a parliamentary election which could indicate a path towards hereditary succession in the authoritarian, gas-rich former Soviet state.
TEHRAN, March 23 - Iran has asked for “immediate” explanation from Turkmenistan after the Central Asian country’s border guards opened fire on four Iranian fishermen in the Caspian Sea and killed two of them.
TEHRAN, January 30 - Iran plans to take Turkmenistan to international arbitration over the price and quality of gas it has imported from the Central Asian neighbor, Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh said.
TEHRAN, November 17 - Iranian Minister of Road and Transportation Abbas Akhoundi and Turkmen Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov met on the sidelines of the Seventh Regional Economic Cooperation Conference on Afghanistan (RECCA VII) in Turkmenistan, where they discussed ways to expand bilateral ties.
TEHRAN, August 2, YJC - Iran inaugurated a gas pipeline which officials say will dispense with supplies from neighboring Turkmenistan to northern Iranian provinces, especially in the winter when demand spirals out of control.
TEHRAN, April 17, YJC - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif met with Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, where the two sides discussed ways for further expansion of bilateral ties between Tehran and Ashgabat.
Head of Iranian Trade Promotion Organization Mojtaba Khosro-Taj said Iran’s exports to Tajikistan and Turkmenistan have totaled $600 million over the first 10 months of Iranian calendar year (started on March 20, 2016).
Turkmenistan says it is ready to resume talks with Iran over a dispute on gas exports to its southern neighbor that were halted earlier this month as a result of a row on payments.