Iran

Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani called on the western countries to give up their preconditions for the resumption of talks with the Islamic Republic.

Since the western side has given up its preconditions and demands negotiations under a peaceful atmosphere, Larijani and Solana may reach an agreement in their Wednesday talks, Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini said here on Monday.

Iran’s Ambassador to Bangkok Mohsen Pak Ayeen denied reports about the delayed operation of Mehr Petrochemical project in Iran’s Assaluyeh region, assuring that the project is facing no problems at all.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hushyar Zebari is scheduled to arrive in Tehran on Wednesday, the country’s ambassador to Iran said here today.

Ivory Coast’s ambassador to Iran, heading an economic delegation, is scheduled to arrive in Iran’s Semnan Province to study expansion of ties and bolstering of cooperation between his country and Semnan.

A committee is due to be formed at the Islamic Consultative Assembly to follow up on the technical issues of Iran’s nuclear activities and plans, Rapporteur of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Kazem Jalali said here on Monday.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki voiced Tehran’s preparedness to bolster cooperation and expand all-out ties with Latino states, and stressed Iran’s companionship with the people and contemporary movements of that region.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and ministers of the Nicaraguan government in a 4-hour-long meeting in Managua on Sunday studied the possible grounds for the activity of Iranian companies in Nicaragua.

Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega said Iran’s policy is in pursuit of peace and justice, and further described the Islamic Republic of Iran as the biggest victim of terrorism.

Deputy Head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization (IAEO) Ahmad Fayyaz-Bakhsh left Tehran for Moscow at the head of a delegation to finalize issues pertaining to the delivery of nuclear fuel to Iran’s first nuclear power plant in the southern province of Bushehr.