Enriched uranium fuel is ready to be shipped from Russia to Iran’s first nuclear power plant, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here Saturday.

As a way to draw attention from American shortcomings in Iraq, the US is accusing Iran of trying to destabilize the war-torn country, the Iranian ambassador to Iraq said.

A Belgian man taken hostage by bandits in southeast Iran last month was reunited with his parents in Tehran on Saturday after Iranian forces helped secure his release, Iran’s foreign minister said.