Iran

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov criticized European powers’ approach to Iran’s nuclear program in talks with top EU officials that were supposed to prepare a summit on closer EU-Russia relations.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Sharp differences have emerged between the five permanent members of the UN Security Council over the sanctions to be imposed on Iran for its failure to suspend uranium enrichment with the European draft coming under fire from Russia, which wants to soften it.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Member of a US delegation called ‘Messengers of Peace’ believe that the US joint maneuvers in the Persian Gulf waters proved to be an unimportant show.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs stressed that Iran is strongly opposed to all types of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs), saying that the world would be a safer place without such inhuman arms.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Parliament speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel said here Saturday that the embassy takeover by Iran shattered the United States’ forged awe in the Middle-East and world.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A senior member of the US delegation called ‘Messengers of Peace’ warned about the undesirable consequences of any US threats against Iran.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A parliamentary friendship group left Tehran for Amman on Saturday on an official visit to Jordan.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Justice Minister Jamal Karimi Rad criticized the West’s double standards for human rights, mentioning that western countries misuse human rights as a lever to practice their policies.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The “ground is prepared” for direct talks between Iran and the United States over the situation in war-ravaged Iraq, former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami said.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian parliament gave tentative approval for the spending of an extra $2 bln and 200 mln on petrol imports but warned fuel rationing might be necessary.