Iran

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- China says it has urged Iran to return to negotiations to resolve international concerns over its nuclear program.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Tehran’s substitute Friday Prayers leader Hojjatoleslam Ahmad Khatami voiced satisfaction over the execution of the former Iraqi dictator, and stressed that expressing regret and mourning for Saddam is synonymous with complicity in his crimes.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that the tyranny and corruption dominating the world is a result of the performance of the faithless powers.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Addressing a huge congregation of the people in Hendijan, Khuzestan province, Iranian president Ahmadinejad said that the progress of Iran has triggered the wrath and anger of the enemies of our nation.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- In reaction to the Egyptian Foreign Minister’s inclination for the normalization of relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Egypt, spokesman of the Iranian foreign ministry said

QAZVIN — Banned from becoming president and with just a dozen MPs, women have started making inroads in the male-dominated world of Iranian politics by boosting their numbers on local councils.

VIENNA (Reuters) — The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is reviewing its technical aid projects in Iran to see if any might violate a new UN resolution imposing sanctions on Tehran over concerns it is secretly trying to build atom bombs.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, stressing his country’s nuclear power, said that Iran will soon start nuclear fuel production at an industrial level irrespective of the strong opposition shown by the US president and other world powers.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s Expediency Council Chairman Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani stressed that public participation and national consensus by all Lebanese groups can defuse the plots hatched by some local and foreign agents.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Larijani, heading a high-ranking delegation, is scheduled to leave Tehran for Beijing on Thursday January 4 to convey a message from President Ahmadinejad to his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao.