TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in Managua on Sunday that Tehran supports progress, independence and stability of all free nations, including Latin American nations.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Government Spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham said that Iran needs 10 nuclear power plants to produce 10,000 megawatts of electricity.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s Ahmadinejad and Nicaragua’s Ortega stressed that the two nations will play their significant roles as their power is now on the increase.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A senior Iranian lawmaker in a meeting with the German ambassador to Tehran here on Sunday expressed the hope that Europe, particularly Germany, would continue their policy of multilateralism in the international arena.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad described his Nicaraguan counterpart Daniel Ortega as the symbol of the justice and independence-seeking movement of the Nicaraguan nation.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A senior Iranian oil official said on Sunday OPEC had still not decided on whether to hold an emergency meeting soon to discuss a 15 percent drop in crude prices since the start of the year.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran strongly rejected a US accusation that five Iranian diplomats arrested in northern Iraq last week are supporting the insurgency.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- As reported by the January 12 New York Times, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice admitted that George W. Bush authorized the raid of the Iranian liaison office in Erbil, Iraq, and that the raid was part of a broad military offensive against Iran ordered by Bush …

RAMALLAH — A three-way meeting between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is set to take place in the coming weeks.

A convoy of US vehicles from Kuwait arrives Monday in Basra, 550km south of Baghdad. The first additional US troops, who will take part in a major new security plan in Baghdad, arrived in Baghdad, General George Casey, the US commander in Iraq, said (Reuters photo by Atef Hassan)