Middle Orient

Iran has started feeding uranium gas for enrichment at a nuclear plant where it has installed over 1,300 centrifuges, the UN atomic watchdog said.

Iranian Interior Ministry, in cooperation with the Intelligence Ministry, has made wide arrests of the main elements of the terrorist group known under the name of its leader Abdul Malik Rigi and succeeded in disbanding the main cells of the terrorist group, a ministry official said.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that after each resolution passed by the UN Security Council his country would display a new achievement in the field of nuclear technology.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini said here on Monday that the two Swedes who had been condemned to two years of imprisonment for violating the Islamic Republic’s law were released.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on western powers to treat Iran in a friendly manner, saying that such a behavior would serve their interests as well.

Indian Ambassador to Iran said that New Delhi seeks extension of the North-South corridor because the measure plays a crucial role in the development of diplomatic and trade ties between Iran and India.

Tehran and Yerevan established a friendship association to further expand relations between the two nations.

Secretary of the Popular Committee for the Reclamation of Iran’s Historical and Cultural Possessions said that the US is delaying the legal proceeding of the issue of the Iranian clay tablets because it has tied the case to international political issues.

Proposed by foreign minister and Approved by president, Mohammad Hassan Ghadiri Abyaneh was assigned as Tehran’s ambassador to Mexico City.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stressed that his country would not give up even an iota of its nuclear rights, underlining that the Iranian nation will continue its progressive movement on the nuclear path.