TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Iran’s former nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani stated that international circumstances and regional changes, including “the weakening of the exclusive role of America in the region,” are encouraging Egypt and Iran to increase their mutual cooperation.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Iran expects deliveries of natural gas from neighboring Turkmenistan to be restored by the end of the week, an Iranian official said on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Iranian scientists said Monday that the country’s first cloned sheep is thriving 15 months after birth, eating well and frolicking among a flock of normal sheep.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Iran believes in the need for talks with the US over Iraq in principle, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini said, assuring that Tehran and Washington would attend a fourth round of talks on Iraq’s security at ambassadorial level.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad here on Monday felicitated Alvaro Colom on his election as Guatemala’s president.

US military deaths, suicide bombings and opium production hit record highs in 2007. Taliban militants killed more than 925 Afghan police. But US officials insist things are looking up.