TEHRAN (FNA)- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday warned that any military means to solve Iran’s nuclear issue would have a “disastrous” effect.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Republican presidential candidate John McCain touts his foreign policy expertise at every turn, but he has given Democrats ammunition against his experience by wrongly saying Iran trains Al-Qaeda members.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said Thursday that Iran will approach the world through both wisdom and resistance in the new (Iranian) year.

TEHRAN (FNA)- An earthquake measuring 4.1 degrees on the Richter scale jolted south of Shahreza city, 80 kilometers south of Isfahan on Wednesday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The state-run Iranian Petroleum Engineering and Development Company (IPEDC) and the National Iranian Drilling Company (NIDC) have signed a contract for drilling 12 wells in the massive Kish gas field.

UNTIED NATIONS: The Security Council has extended the mandate of the UN mission in Afghanistan by one year, giving the world body central role in coordinating humanitarian activities being carried out by various bodies in the war-ravaged country.

Ex-Soviet Moldova wants major powers to sign a declaration guaranteeing its neutrality, its president said, a step that could ease the way for a peace deal over its breakway Transdniestria region.

Azerbaijani and ethnic Armenian forces exchanged more gunfire near the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh over the weekend, killing two civilians and at least two soldiers, officials said Monday.

Kavkaz Center’s editorial staff received an e-mail containing a statement signed by Huzeifa, a deputy of the Amir of the Jamaat Kataib al-Hawl (Wilayah Iriston, the Emirate of Caucasus).

Kavkaz Center’s sources in Wilayah of Dagestan of the Caucasus Emirate reported that command of Temir-Khan-Shura sector of Degestani Front of Armed Forces of CE (Seyfullah unit) confirmed martyrdom of an operative unit of Mujahideen during a fierce gun battle that took place on  Friday 6 Rabi‘ al-Awwal 1429 (14.03.2008) …