Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Larijani said that Iran supports the Palestinian national unity government.

Major powers try again on Thursday to negotiate sanctions against Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment but remain divided over how stiff the measures should be, diplomats said.

Iran’s Permanent Representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors Ali Asqar Soltanieh in Vienna on Wednesday called on the UN nuclear watchdog to treat nuclear cases of all world countries through a single approach and under fair and equal conditions.

An Expert Assembly member here in Tehran on Wednesday said that the United States’ pressures on Iran are aimed at stopping Iran’s rapid growth, adding that Washington seeks to prevent the Islamic Republic from becoming a regional power in the Middle-East.

Comorian Foreign Minister Ahmed Ben Sa’id Jaffar said that his visit to Tehran is aimed at deepening of cooperation, adding that he is conveying a message from his president to the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said that his country is scheduled to construct oil reserve tanks in Comoros in order to have ready stockpiles for customers.

 Iran’s First Vice-President Parviz Dawoodi is due to leave for Syria on Thursday.

We are still in need of Iran’s aids and support for the Palestinian nation and government, specially in removing the political and economic embargo imposed on Palestine, Director of the Political Office of the Palestinian Hamas Movement Khaled Mashal said here in Tehran on Tuesday.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a meeting with Director of the Political Office of Palestine’s Hamas Group Khaled Mashal here in Tehran on Tuesday, stressed that the Zionist regime of Israel is in its worst conditions ever and about to face its imminent demise.

Iran’s internationally admired film director Rasoul Mola-Gholipour, who has made masterpiece movies which won him many awards home and overseas, died Monday night when shooting a scene.