Iran will not give up its principled stances and is fully ready to confront any kind of aggression, the country’s ambassador to Mexico said.

 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is due to attend a meeting in New York this week with the critics of the US administration’s hawkish policies.

Iran on Saturday exhibited new home-made warfare equipment at a military parade in Tehran marking the Iraqi invasion in 1980, which led to an eight-year war (1980-1988).