Iran

To get out of the quagmire it has created in Iraq, the United States is in need of Iran’s aid and assistance, Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi said here on Wednesday.

Head of Iran’s delegation to the general meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) stressed that the unilateral, monopolistic and hegemonic measures taken by the United States have prevented establishment of a fair international system.

Oman’s Sultan Qaboos, in a meeting with Iran’s visiting Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Wednesday, viewed deep trust as the key element contributing to Tehran-Masqat consolidated relations.

The 11th meeting of Iran-Oman joint economic commission was held in Masqat on Wednesday.

Tehran always seeks to remove the possible misunderstandings between the two states through talks and based on the 1971 Memorandum of Understanding, Iran’s envoy to the Inter-Parliamentary Union meeting in Indonesia said following allegations raised by the UAE’s representative about Iran’s three Persian Gulf islands.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki , in a meeting with his Omani counterpart Yusef bin Alavi, stressed the need for the two countries to utilize their potentials in a bid to promote mutual trade and economic cooperation.

Iran has extended $1 bln in credits for reconstruction projects in Iraq, a senior official said Tuesday ahead of an international conference on stabilizing Iraq.

Notwithstanding US reservations over the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline, the World Bank has described it as a win-win deal and expressed readiness to fund the seven billion dollar project.

Seven of the 15 British Royal Navy personnel held captive by Iran are back in the Persian Gulf searching for smugglers, Britain’s military said Tuesday.

Iran-Iraq parliamentary friendship group in a statement released here on Monday strongly condemned construction of a partitioning wall in Baghdad by occupying troops, saying that the measure is in line with Israel’s failed plots for sowing religious and ethnic discord in Iraq.