Iran

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad here on Tuesday dismissed US decision to cut off financial relations with his country’s banks as meaningless.

 Iran’s foreign minister said that his country’s cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog has made the US change the game and create another problem for the Islamic Republic as it perceives the pending solution of Tehran’s nuclear issue.

The United States’ new sanctions against Iran show that Americans are not at all interested in the prevalence of peace and tranquility in the region and world, Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel said.

Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency started a second day of their last round of talks on issues related to the Islamic Republic’s P1 and P2 centrifuges here on Tuesday.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki denied Washington’s charges that Iran provides ammunition for insurgents’ attack on US convoys in Iraq, stressing that Iran plays no role in the killing of the US soldiers.

Iran, the world’s number four crude producer, is aiming for oil export revenues of about $70 billion in the year to March, after it received about $35 billion in the first half of the year, an Iranian oil official said on Monday.

Tehran on Tuesday praised the stance of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) head Mohammed ElBaradei in the ongoing nuclear dispute between the West and Iran.

The head of the U.N. nuclear agency says Iran’s refusal to suspend uranium enrichment is “regrettable,” but said its willingness to cooperate with U.N. investigators is a step in the right direction. From VOA’s New York Bureau, Mona Ghuneim reports on the agency’s efforts to work on a diplomatic solution …

An Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) commander underlined preparedness of his troops to fight enemy forces in the Persian Gulf, saying that Iran can stun enemies due to its geographical advantages in the strait of Hormoz.

Changes and transformations in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps are aimed at materializing its strategic goals and implementing its policies, chief of IRGC’s joint staff said.