Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is due to leave Tehran for New York next Sunday to attend the annual meeting of the Untied Nations General Assembly.

In a blatant violation of diplomatic norms, the US administration refrained from issuing an entry visa for Iran’s ambassador to Geneva and chairman of the Group 15.

Iran announced that it would soon test fly the third generation of its domestically-built fighter jet ‘Saeqeh’ (Thunderbolt).