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TEHRAN (FNA)- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki left Baghdad on Thursday for an official visit in Jordan.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said despite strong pressure from the US, Tehran is determined to maintain its ties with Syria.

TEHRAN (FNA)- As Burton Richter, an American Nobel laureate in physics, entered the main auditorium of Tehran’s prestigious Sharif University, hundreds of students rose to give him a loud and lengthy ovation. But Richter, wearing a white suit and leaning on a cane, said he was the one who should …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Five silver coins belonging to the Safavid era have been found in a public charity box and were handed over to authorities in Tehran.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon has called on the members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to accept Iran’s membership bid.

Visiting Iraqi Defense Minister Lieutenant General Abdul Qadir Mohammed Jassim Obeidi conferred on Sunday with his Iranian counterpart Brigadier General Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar on expansion of defense cooperation between the two countries.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday that he hopes the Iraqi government, by relying on the prudence of its government and unity among its ethnic leaders and political wings, will successfully overcome the present sensitive situation.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Mostafa Mohammad Najjar warned of any Israeli attempt to carry out strike on Iran stressing that “Our response will have no time or geographical limit.”

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Alireza Sheikh Attar is slated to pay a visit to Azerbaijan on June 4.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran is constructing seven refineries in an effort to boost its crude and gas refining capacity by more than 1.5 million barrels per day (bpd), a senior oil official said Saturday.