DUBAI (AP) — The deployment of the USS John C. Stennis to the Middle East will put two US aircraft carriers in the volatile Gulf region for the first time since the 2003 Iraq invasion. Military officials say a second carrier group is meant as a plain warning to Iran.

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TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Ecuador on Monday stressed that his country is firm to promote cooperation with Latin American states despite the fury shown by the system of hegemony.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Ecuador’s President-elect Rafael Correa stressed during a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the Islamic Republic will be given a top stand in Quito’s foreign policy.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Commander-in-Chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi met with Sudan’s Defense Minister, Field Marshal Abdel Rahim Mohammed Hussein here on Sunday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in Managua on Sunday that Tehran supports progress, independence and stability of all free nations, including Latin American nations.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Government Spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham said that Iran needs 10 nuclear power plants to produce 10,000 megawatts of electricity.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s Ahmadinejad and Nicaragua’s Ortega stressed that the two nations will play their significant roles as their power is now on the increase.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A senior Iranian lawmaker in a meeting with the German ambassador to Tehran here on Sunday expressed the hope that Europe, particularly Germany, would continue their policy of multilateralism in the international arena.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad described his Nicaraguan counterpart Daniel Ortega as the symbol of the justice and independence-seeking movement of the Nicaraguan nation.