Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel expressed regret over the European Union’s blind obedience to the United States, saying that it is far from EU’s dignity to follow the US.

Proposed by Iranian foreign minister and approved by president, Hamid Qomi was assigned as the Islamic Republic of Iran’s ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

North Ossetia’s prime minister voiced his republic’s enthusiasm for the expansion of relations with Iran.

Iran’s Semnan province and Ivory Coast endorsed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the expansion of economic cooperation.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and Cuba’s First Vice-President Raul Castro Ruz stressed the need for the deepening of economic cooperation between the two countries.

Ambassador of Ivory Coast to the Islamic Republic of Iran said that Iran-Khodro Diesel Company is due to export 120 different road construction machineries to his country.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari is due to arrive in Tehran on Wednesday to make sure of Iran’s participation in the upcoming summit in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani and EU Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana a few minutes ago arrived in the Turkish capital city of Ankara to start a new round of talks about Iran’s nuclear issue.

The United States and other world powers may be ready to allow Iran to keep some of its uranium enrichment program intact instead of demanding its complete dismantling, foreign government officials said Tuesday.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini here on Tuesday stressed the need for the immediate cessation of clashes in the Somalian capital city of Mogadishu.