Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad here on Tuesday stressed affinity between the two Iranian and Egyptian nations, saying that Tehran’s preparedness to open embassy in Cairo displays the good intention of the Iranian nation.

An informed source privy to Iran-US talks denied earlier reports on an incoming meeting between Iran’s deputy Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi and Advisor to the US Secretary of State David Satterfield, describing the news as unfounded.

An Iranian lawmaker who devised the plan for the formation of Iran-US parliamentary friendship group said that his proposal is intended to display good intentions of Iranian and American nations.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stressed that bullying powers should give up their plots and leave the Persian Gulf region.

Chairman of Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaoddin Boroujerdi here on Tuesday blasted the efforts made by certain MPs to form a parliamentary friendship group between Iran and the US.

A number of representatives at Iran’s Islamic Consultative Assembly here on Tuesday started collecting signatures from their colleagues to approve a plan for the formation of Iran-US parliamentary friendship group.

The reports released about a plan presented by Iran to UAE officials about the three Iranian islands of the Greater Tunb, the Lesser Tunb and Abu Musa in the Persian Gulf is a forged baseless scenario, an informed source told FNA here on Tuesday.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, heading a high-ranking delegation, arrived in Islamabad, Pakistan Tuesday morning to attend the 34th meeting of the foreign ministers of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).

Iran’s ambassador to Zimbabwe said that Tehran is scheduled to reconstruct and overhaul a refinery in Zimbabwe in line with its extensive investments in Africa.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohmmad Ali Hosseini said Tehran has extended a positive response to a request by the Iraqi government for attending talks with the US over Iraq issue.