Iran

Croatian Parliament Vice-Speaker stressed Iran’s right to access and use civilian nuclear technology, and further rejected discriminatory approaches towards single issues.

Venezuela’s chare d’affair to Tehran described Palestinian nation as a victim of injustice and inequality, and called on the world countries to open their eyes to the ongoing catastrophe in Palestine.

Powers should know that today is the day of the nations’ stormy waves, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, but meantime added that the great Iranian nation is fond of logic and dialogue.

Iran has started feeding uranium gas for enrichment at a nuclear plant where it has installed over 1,300 centrifuges, the UN atomic watchdog said.

Iranian Interior Ministry, in cooperation with the Intelligence Ministry, has made wide arrests of the main elements of the terrorist group known under the name of its leader Abdul Malik Rigi and succeeded in disbanding the main cells of the terrorist group, a ministry official said.

Equipment and weaponry of the 15 British marines were not returned to London, an informed source said here on Wednesday.

Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said his country’s powerful, efficient and well-equipped army is fully prepared to defend Iran while it merely seeks to reinvigorate sustainable peace, stability and security in the region.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said those whose histories are filled with aggressions, oppressions and cruelties are indicting Iran for aggression and belligerency.

President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) Ezzatollah Zarqami, in a meeting with Armenian Culture Minister Hasmik Poghosian, voiced Tehran’s preparedness to launch joint cultural cooperation with Yerevan.

Iran’s First Vice-President Parviz Dawoodi said that the pressures exerted by the US and certain countries on foreign investors to prevent them from investing their capitals in Iran have all proved unfruitful.