TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Kuwait’s Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and Deputy Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Khalid al-Hamad Saturday said that the Arab states share the common view that Iran’s nuclear standoff with the West should be settled through peaceful ways.

Wrapping up a two-day summit in Riga, leaders of the 26 NATO countries invited Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Montenegro and Serbia to join the Partnership for Peace (PfP) programme — a key step towards membership in the Alliance.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini said that Russia’s approach to Iran’s nuclear issue is more realistic compared to that of other members of the so- called 5+1 group.

Albanian president schedules municipal elections for January 20th 03/12/2006 TIRANA, Albania — President Alfred Moisiu has set January 20th as the date of Albania’s next municipal elections. A press release issued by his office Saturday (December 2nd) voiced the president’s deep concern over the continued failure of the Albanian political …

According to Russian news reports, a mobile group of Mujahideen attacked in the Maskhadov district (former Staropromyslovsky district) of the Chechen capital of Jokhar a Russian military convoy with police mercenaries from the Russian-held Siberian region on Khakasia late Friday, December 1, 2006. The invaders claim that only the Russian …

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a meeting with Malaysian Minister of Women, Family and Social Development Shahrizad Abdeljalil here Tuesday urged Muslim women to propose strategies such as formation of convention to safeguard Muslim woman’s rights.

Government spokesman and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s envoy, Gholam-Hossein Elham, in a meeting with Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, here Tuesday delivered the written message of Ahmadinejad to him.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Chairman of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaoddin Boroujerdi said Iran holds a positive view about cooperation with Europe.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran has unveiled the final list of election candidates authorized to run for the body that chooses and supervises the Islamic republic’s supreme leader.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran reached out to Iraq and the American public in separate gestures Wednesday, giving the Baghdad government a $1 billion line of credit while Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent a personal letter to “noble Americans” calling for a military withdrawal from Iraq.