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TEHRAN (Fars news Agency)- Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Secretary Ali Larijani stressed here on Wednesday that his country would not suspend its uranium enrichment activities.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stressed here on Wednesday that the Iranian nation would celebrate full establishment and stabilization of its nuclear rights during this year’s Ten-Day Dawn ceremonies.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s Expediency Council Chairman Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, in a meeting with Germany’s incoming ambassador to Tehran here on Wednesday, voiced displeasure at increased pressures exerted by the US and the West on the Islamic Republic.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said that the clandestine policies of the US and Britain are aimed at breaking Muslim unity through sowing discord among them.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran is a country which does not need any intermediary for developing its relations with African nations, said the head of African Union in a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in Ethiopia on Wednesday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki stressed the point that the Islamic Republic of Iran has so far maintained maximum and best cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency among all other member states of the IAEA.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- An Iranian MP here on Wednesday called on Baghdad to take serious its responsibility for releasing the Iranian diplomats kidnapped by the US forces in Iraq, reminding that continued incarceration of the five Iranian diplomats impairs the credit and authority of the Iraqi government.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari extended an invitation to his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki on Wednesday to attend a ministerial summit of Iraq’s neighboring states in Baghdad.

RAMALLAH — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has approved a rerouting of Israel’s separation barrier to take in two more illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the Israeli media reported yesterday.