QUETTA, Pakistan  – Pakistani police said on Tuesday they had rounded up about a dozen people for questioning in the search for a senior U.N. refugee agency official abducted in the city of Quetta. American John Solecki, head of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) office in the …

Suspected Islamist militants blew up a bridge in northwestern Pakistan’s Khyber Pass Tuesday, cutting the main route for supplies bound for Western forces in land-locked Afghanistan, Pakistani officials said. The easiest land route for supplies and military equipment into Afghanistan is by ship to the Pakistani port of Karachi, and …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Muslims are set to support goals of Palestine and the holy Quds, said Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement representative to Tehran Abu Sharif here on Monday. Speaking in a ceremony on resistance victory at Tehran University, Abu Sharif said Islamic states will never permit Israel to attack and gain …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani invited Turkish counterpart Koksal Toptan to take part in a parliamentary conference to be held soon in Tehran on support for Gaza’s resistance. In a phone conversation on Monday Larijani referred to the recent efforts to end Zionist regime’s attacks over Gaza and …

TEHRAN (FNA)- This is not the Americans who should invite Iran to the negotiating table as Tehran has always been ready for talks while Washington shrugged off diplomacy in resolving Iran’s nuclear issue, Iranian parliament speaker said on Monday. “There is no need for anyone to invite us to the …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Government Spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham on Monday described the capitalist school of thought as the root cause of the present crisis in the West. “Capitalism has come to a serious crisis and has no way out,” Elham stressed. He further pointed to the remarks by the Late …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said in a meeting with Quartet Envoy Tony Blair that the Middle East issue is not easy to solve. “The reason for this claim is the 60-year-long continuity of the middle east story”, Mottaki added in his short conversation with the former British …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday that the world arrogance is seeking to dominate the region through Zionism and militarism. “The arrogance is seeking to dominate the region by means of Zionism and militarism,” Ahmadinejad said, alluding to US and its western allies. Speaking in a meeting with …

TEHRAN (FNA)- The number of Palestinian people who have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza is not acceptable according to the standards, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday. “Steps should be taken towards Palestinian solidarity, guaranteed reconstruction of Gaza and preparation of the ground for creating comprehensive …

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Israeli leaders who committed war crimes in the 22-day onslaught against the oppressed Palestinian people should be tried, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said. Calling for the boycott of Israeli goods, Ahmadinejad said in a meeting with Hamas politburo chief Khalid Meshaal here in Tehran Sunday night that …