Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mehdi Mostafavi expressed the hope that the nuclear standoff between his country and the West would be ended during the current visit to Tehran by a delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki here on Wednesday dismissed the Zionist regime’s invitation to the Iranian Jews to leave their homeland for the occupied territories.

Iranian Government Spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham said that the Zionist regime of Israel should take a lesson from its last year invasion of Lebanon, where it was not only defeated but also humiliated by Hezbollah.