Iran

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A senior commander in Iran’s naval force said the country’s navy enjoys the required capabilities to respond to any possible military aggression against Iran’s territorial waters with an iron feast.

Iran’s Intelligence Minister Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ezhehee said that his ministry would disclose contents of a case publicly known here in Iran as the nuclear spy case if the judiciary power issued the required permission.

Chances of a breakthrough appear slim when Iran’s main nuclear negotiator meets Europe’s top diplomat on Friday in a last effort to avert tougher sanctions over Tehran’s disputed atomic program.

The commander of coalition forces in two volatile Baghdad neighborhoods says Shiite splinter groups backed by Iran are continuing their attacks, in spite of a reduction of violence in the area by mainstream Shiite groups and mostly-Sunni al-Qaida.

President Bush and senior Iraqi Shi’ite politician Abdel Aziz al-Hakim of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council met privately in Washington on Tuesday.

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said here Wednesday that self-confidence and reliance on God Almighty are the most important back up of the Iranian Armed Forces.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here Wednesday that the International Atomic Energy Agency’s report confirming Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities marks an absolute victory for Iranian nation.

 Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel said those countries which have been invited by the US to attend the so-called Middle-East peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland are not able to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli issue.

Ivory Coast’s foreign minister conferred with his Iranian counterpart about bilateral ties as well as regional and international issues in a meeting here in Tehran on Tuesday.

Iran’s judiciary power said here Tuesday that investigations into former Iranian nuclear negotiator Hossein Moussavian, who was detained briefly this year on suspicion of espionage, exonerated him from a majority but not all, crimes.