Iran

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.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Russia said it believed Iran’s nuclear program was peaceful, and a political dialogue, not sanctions, must be used in talks with Tehran.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- China holds that all parties concerned should refrain from taking any action that may lead to the escalation of the situation on Iran nuclear issue, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in a meeting with the participants at the ECO Interior Ministers’ meeting here on Wednesday, stressed the need for the independent countries to reinvigorate their regional cooperation to get rid of hegemonic and unilateralist powers.