Middle Orient

Afghanistan calls for the settlement of Iran’s nuclear case through dialogue and negotiations, Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta said here in Tehran on Wednesday.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel assured that his country’s nuclear activities do not pursue proliferation drives, reminding that Tehran has and will always remain loyal to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) rules and regulations.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that development of relations with all the world states, including those in the Far East and Oceania, sets a definite policy for his country.

Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said his talks with EU Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana have been postponed to a future date.

We are opposed to fundamentalism and radicalism, Muslims should not be accused of following such approaches, Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) said.

My husband has been kidnapped by Turkish security and intelligence forces, said spouse of Asgari, the former Iranian deputy defense minister who was kidnapped in Turkey more than 4 months ago.

Iranian diplomat Jalal Sharafi who was released last week after he had been kidnapped in front of Iran’s embassy in Baghdad two months ago said that he had undergone the most horrible tortures in the first 15 days of his detention by the CIA agents.

Intelligence Minister Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ezhehee stressed that Iran is one of the world’s most secure countries.

Iranian and Afghan foreign ministers here on Wednesday endorsed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to reorganize and modernize the signs and documents of the two countries’ shared borders.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has succeeded in entering the phase of industrial nuclear fuel production following its significant technological progress at Natanz enrichment facility, head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Agency (IAEO) Gholam Reza Aghazadeh said on Monday.