Iran says the recent UN Security Council resolution against the country may cause Tehran to reconsider negotiations over its nuclear program.

Five former US Secretaries of State say the next American administration should hold direct and unconditional talks with Tehran.

Israeli President Shimon Peres has suggested targeting Iran’s main source of income as a means of lowering the country’s defensive force.

Iran says it wants to forge a strong security alliance with the participation of its neighbors, the Persian Gulf littoral states.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mottaki says that Tehran aims to draw strategies to help establish stability and security in the Caucasus.

Iran has rejected reports that its vessel hijacked by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden was carrying a ‘dangerous consignment’.

The Islamic Republic Air Force and the IRGC have initiated a joint military exercise with the aim of coordinating their aerial defenses.

The separatist region of Abkhazia has declared a 10-day ‘state of war’ in its territories close to the de facto borders with Georgia.

The White House has orchestrated the current conflict between Russia and Georgia in South Ossetia, a high-ranking Russian official says.

Syria has rejected the IAEA’s request for a second inspection of its alleged nuclear site, bombed by Israel last September.