WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States said Wednesday it raised concerns with Iraq over the timing and procedures for Saddam Hussein’s execution before he was hanged, but insisted the former dictator got justice.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, stressing his country’s nuclear power, said that Iran will soon start nuclear fuel production at an industrial level irrespective of the strong opposition shown by the US president and other world powers.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s Expediency Council Chairman Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani stressed that public participation and national consensus by all Lebanese groups can defuse the plots hatched by some local and foreign agents.