Iran

CAMP DAVID — Afghan President Hamid Karzai and U.S. President George W Bush agreed that Pakistan must help quell deadly violence inside Afghanistan, but broke sharply on Iran’s influence there.

Iranian and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) teams of experts started the next round of talks to resolve the remaining issues between the two sides.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon in a phone conversation with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki called for Tehran’s assistance to resolve the hostage-taking crisis in Afghanistan.

Iran, Iraq and the United States started a study of the root causes of insecurities in Iraq in a trilateral expert-level committee meeting in Baghdad on Monday.

Iranian oil minister expressed the hope that the final contract for the export of Iran’s gas to Pakistan and India through a multi-billion dollar pipeline – known as IPI pipeline – would be signed by the leaders of the three states in the near future.

We do not need to import parts of F14 from the US, rather we are now striving to manufacture the 5th generation of fighter jets domestically, Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said here on Monday.

A new oil field was explored in the central parts of Iran, an informed source said on Monday.

Iran and Morocco issued a joint stamp on Monday which bears Falak-ol-Aflak Citadel in Lorestan province as its theme, an Iranian official said.

A trilateral committee formed by representatives of Iran, US and Iraq started its meeting Monday morning, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini said.

Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said that his country has started industrial manufacture of its indigenous Azarakhsh fighter jet which conducted a successful test flight yesterday.