Iran

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said six-party talks on Iran’s nuclear program would take place on Tuesday, swiftly reversing an earlier statement that the talks had been delayed.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Kuwait’s Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and Deputy Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Khalid al-Hamad Saturday said that the Arab states share the common view that Iran’s nuclear standoff with the West should be settled through peaceful ways.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini said that Russia’s approach to Iran’s nuclear issue is more realistic compared to that of other members of the so- called 5+1 group.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a meeting with Malaysian Minister of Women, Family and Social Development Shahrizad Abdeljalil here Tuesday urged Muslim women to propose strategies such as formation of convention to safeguard Muslim woman’s rights.

Government spokesman and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s envoy, Gholam-Hossein Elham, in a meeting with Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, here Tuesday delivered the written message of Ahmadinejad to him.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Chairman of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaoddin Boroujerdi said Iran holds a positive view about cooperation with Europe.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran has unveiled the final list of election candidates authorized to run for the body that chooses and supervises the Islamic republic’s supreme leader.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran reached out to Iraq and the American public in separate gestures Wednesday, giving the Baghdad government a $1 billion line of credit while Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent a personal letter to “noble Americans” calling for a military withdrawal from Iraq.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- To conclude the 3-day visit to Tehran by President Jalal Talabani, Iran and Iraq issued a joint press statement here on Wednesday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Following his messages to US President George W Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed a five-page letter to the American people.