Iran

AMMAN — Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday said he held talks with King Abdullah on the “urgency for a new strong initiative to effectively” address Mideast crises.

DUBAI (AP) — A second US aircraft carrier strike group now steaming towards the Middle East is Washington’s way of warning Iran to back down in its attempts to dominate the region, a top US diplomat said here Tuesday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The committee for revising Iran’s relations with the International Atomic Energy Agency has decided to deny granting entry permits to 38 IAEA inspectors, a senior MP said here on Monday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here on Monday that Tehran has forwarded letters of similar contents to the 14 permanent and non-permanent UN Security Council member states to protest at a recent resolution passed by the UNSC against its nuclear activities.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Following their second round of talks, Iranian and Belarusian defense ministers here on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation in the field of defense.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Ground forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) began missile war games in Garmsar region, 100 kilometers east of Tehran on Sunday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in a meeting with Syrian Minister of Telecommunications and Technology Amir Nasir Salim here on Monday stressed that the policies of the hegemonic system for the Middle-East region have all been wrong and ended up in failure.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with the visiting Belarusian Defense Minister, Leonid Maltsev, here on Monday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Law Enforcement agents arrested 10 foreign nationals, including one Iraqi, 4 Afghans and 5 Bangladeshis, for illegal entry into the Islamic Republic of Iran on Monday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Islamists’ leader in the Republic of Azerbaijan said that the US and Israel are endeavoring to sow seeds of discord between the Muslim Shiites and Sunnites in that country.