Iran

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Following Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s apparent acknowledgement that the Zionist regime possesses nuclear weapons capability, Iran called on the UN Security Council to account for the actual concerns of the Middle-Eastern nations about Israel’s nuclear threats.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s Vice-President and head of Physical Education Organization Mohammad Ali Abadi met with Qatar’s Crown Prince and head of National Olympic Committee Sheikh Hamad Al-e Thani in Doha on Wednesday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki voiced pleasure in the friendly and cordial relations between Iran and Thailand.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani stressed that the nuclear issue has not posed any challenge to his country or the world.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Minister, in a meeting with the special envoy of the Eritrean President Isaias Afworki here on Tuesday, welcomed the other sides’ proposal for the establishment of mutual ties.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Negotiations on an Iran sanctions resolution were postponed unexpectedly early today as Russia exploded at the US for raising the plight of a Belarusian opposition leader in the United Nations Security Council.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad here Tuesday said that the great powers’ support for the Zionist regime has endangered their dignity and interests, adding that the fate of the Israeli regime is similar to that of the former Soviet Union.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, in a meeting with the outgoing Zimbabwean ambassador to Tehran, expressed hope that with the removal of impediments, the two sides would experience progressive ties in various areas, including economy and trade.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Ambassador of South Africa to Tehran stressed that his country will not vote in favor of any UN resolution on sanctions against Iran.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Palestinian Prime Minister Ismayil Haniyah underlined that despite the US efforts to foment ethnic-religious conflicts between Muslim Shiites and Sunnites, the Islamic Ummah (nation) will remain united.