TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Syrian Parliament Speaker Mahmoud al-Abrash stressed that Damascus considers consultations and cooperation with the Islamic Republic of Iran as a major rule and principle of its foreign policy.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stressed that his country has and will always comply with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) rules and regulations.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said that the defeat of the US Republican party in the recent midterm legislative elections was a result of the wrong policies they had practiced in different areas.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that the Iranian nation will celebrate great nuclear achievements in the current (Iranian) year -ending on March 20th 2007.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Minister of Cooperation Mohammad Abbasi underlined Iran’s decisiveness to develop economic, cultural and social ties with Zimbabwe.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Former US Secretary of State, James Baker met with Iran’s ambassador to the UN, Mohammad Javad Zarif.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Palestinian Foreign Minister, Mahmoud al-Zehar said that all the policies of the new Palestinian government are designed and adopted based on its program for national consensus.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki condemned the recent crimes committed by the Zionist regime in Beit Hanoun in Gaza, and stressed that adoption of such measures will not help to the survival of the Israeli regime.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel met with the Vice-Speaker of Cambodia’s parliament here on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- US President George W. Bush was under pressure from some of his closest allies yesterday to turn to arch enemies Iran and Syria for help in stabilizing Iraq.