Middle Orient

A senior Iranian commander said his country enjoys such a high missile capability that it can target enemy positions with an unlimited number of home-made missiles.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hossein rejected the recent claim by the US officials about dispatch of Iranian military equipment to Afghanistan, describing it as a frequently used and redundant scenario lacking credit.

Croatian Parliament Vice-Speaker stressed Iran’s right to access and use civilian nuclear technology, and further rejected discriminatory approaches towards single issues.

Venezuela’s chare d’affair to Tehran described Palestinian nation as a victim of injustice and inequality, and called on the world countries to open their eyes to the ongoing catastrophe in Palestine.

Powers should know that today is the day of the nations’ stormy waves, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, but meantime added that the great Iranian nation is fond of logic and dialogue.

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.