TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned that the world’s hegemonic powers have targeted the religious beliefs and self-reliance of the different countries, including Iran, in a bid to block their progress.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- An Unidentified Flying Object crashed in Barez Mounts in the central province of Kerman Wednesday morning.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki announced that Iran is fully prepared to launch cooperation with all regional states in a bid to reinvigorate stability and security in the strategic and sensitive Persian Gulf region.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here on Wednesday that enemies’ efforts to deprive Iranians of their nuclear rights through sowing discord among the people are all doomed to failure.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The United Arab Emirates’ Foreign Minister Abdallah bin Zayid al-Nuhayyan said his country is proud of having strong and extensive ties with Iran, stressing that the conspiracies practiced by trans-regional powers would leave no impact on the expansion of the two countries’ relations.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A senior Pakistani official here on Tuesday called on the world community to refrain from practicing double-standards in the face of Iran’s nuclear plans.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A senior lawmaker here on Tuesday stressed that deployment of alien troops in Iraq is the root cause of unfriendly interactions among the Iraqi people who have always conducted a peaceful life alongside one another prior to the occupation of that country.

BAGHDAD (AP) — US jets screamed low over central Baghdad Tuesday, helicopter gunships fired into the battle zone and the Iraqi government said 50 insurgents were killed in the nearly daylong battle with US and Iraqi forces along Haifa Street, a Sunni stronghold that has seen repeated heavy fighting throughout …

MOGADISHU (Reuters) — Many people were killed in Somalia in a US air strike targeting Al Qaeda suspects among fleeing Islamist fighters, Somali officials said on Tuesday.

AMMAN — High level delegations from Middle East countries, Europe and the US will convene today in Madrid in the hope of initiating a fairer and faster process at achieving peace between the Arabs and Israelis.