TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran and Sri Lanka are due to consolidate bilateral ties in the cooperative sector through enhancement of cooperation between the two countries’ private sectors.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Ambassador to Thailand Mohsen Pak-Ayeen said in Bangkok on Saturday that sanctions imposed on Iran by a UN Security Council resolution will bear no fruit.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- An informed source in Iraq’s northern city of Erbil said that Iran’s Ambassador to Iraq will leave Baghdad for Erbil Saturday afternoon to pursue the case with the Iranian diplomats kidnapped by the US forces during a raid on the Iranian consulate general in Erbil.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) aids to Iran have not been discontinued, an informed source said, adding that the IAEA Board of Governors will decide about the issue only after the Agency’s Director General, Mohammad ElBaradei, presents its report.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran has accused the United States of kidnapping five of its citizens who were working as consular officials in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran said it would soon lodge a complaint with the UN Security Council about the kidnapping of five Iranians diplomats by the US troops during a raid on Iranian consulate general in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The construction of the Bid-Boland 2 Refinery kicked off through an amending contract signed with two Iranian consortiums.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The war of words between Iran and the United States has intensified, with a senior official pointedly accusing Washington of trying to drive a wedge between Tehran and Baghdad and of fanning tensions between Sunnis and Shiites.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a phone talk with his Pakistani counterpart Pervez Musharraf discussed the latest developments of the world.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Secretary Ali Larijani described US invasion of Iran’s nuclear sites as impossible, stressing that the US build-up in the Persian Gulf and Washington’s threats serve as a part of a psychological war on Iran.