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TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The nationwide strikes in Lebanon were called off after a series of clashes erupted as a result of government’s increased pressures on army to confront strikers, an informed source said on Wednesday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a phone conversation with his Iraqi counterpart Jalal Talabani on Wednesday stressed that undermining the popular government of Iraq is synonymous with betraying the Iraqi people and the Muslim Ummah (nation).