TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Government Spokesman Gholam Hussein Elham here on Tuesday said that barring IAEA inspectors from entering Iran does not mean halt of cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran will replace its permanent representative to the United Nations Organization in the near future, an informed source said here on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Syria’s visiting Foreign Minister Walid Mualem stressed that no one can deny the positive and constructive role Tehran and Damascus play in the restoration of security and stability in Iraq.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s Expediency Council Chairman Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani met with visiting Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Mualem here on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari praised Iran and Syria’s initiative for organizing a foreign ministerial meeting of Iraq’s neighboring states in Baghdad.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and his Syrian counterpart Walid Mualem discussed bilateral ties and exchanged views about regional issues in a meeting here on Monday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Russia fulfilled a contract to sell air defense missiles to Iran, the head of the country’s state-run weapons exporter said on Tuesday.

BEIRUT (AP) — Opposition protesters burned tyres and cars in the streets and clashed with government supporters, paralysing Beirut and areas across Lebanon on Tuesday in the worst violence yet in the pro-Iranian Hizbollah’s campaign to topple US-backed Prime Minister Fuad Siniora.

AMMAN — Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday said he held talks with King Abdullah on the “urgency for a new strong initiative to effectively” address Mideast crises.

RAMALLAH — Fateh and Hamas met again in Gaza last night to discuss forming a unity government while a number of incidents across the occupied Palestinian territory provided ample evidence of the state of lawlessness Palestinians are struggling with.