TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The Islamic Republic will hold talks with China next month to finalize a 16-billion-dollar gas agreement despite America warning that the Chinese partner could become subject to sanctions, an official said Thursday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran and Syria on Thursday denounced President Bush’s new Iraq strategy that blames them for fueling violence in the war-torn country, and they said the plan to send more US troops would only increase bloodshed.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Unfortunately some of the Islamic heads of state and clerics are misleading the people instead of leading them, Tehran’s interim Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati said here today.