Middle Orient

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Head of Iran’s judiciary power voiced Tehran’s readiness to assist other world countries with development and progress.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that the US intelligence report on the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear programs shot a bullet into the head of all ill-wishers of the Iranian nation.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The report by the US intelligence agencies created a positive atmosphere and proved Iran’s righteousness even more, Iran’s top nuclear negotiator said in the wake of the US National Intelligence Estimate which reiterated the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear programs.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- OPEC, the producer of more than 40 percent of the world’s oil, will leave production unchanged at its meeting today, an official from a Persian Gulf state involved in the talks said.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tuesday accused the West of monopolizing power in world bodies, and proposed setting up an international Islamic court to try war criminals and other human rights violators.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The fourth round of US-Iranian talks on curbing violence in Iraq may take place in the next few days, powerful Iraqi Shiite leader Abdel Aziz al-Hakim said Tuesday at the end of a US visit.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday welcomed Tehran’s Cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A new US intelligence review that concludes Iran is pursuing a peaceful nuclear technology is consistent with the UN atomic watchdog agency’s own findings and “should help to defuse the current crisis”, the organization’s chief said Tuesday.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – A woman suicide bomber blew herself up near a military checkpost in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday in the first suicide attack by a woman in the country, police said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Forty senior al Qaeda in Iraq members were either captured or killed in November, including a senior adviser to the Sunni Islamist group’s leader, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.