A signing ceremony has been held in Damascus establishing diplomatic relations for the first time between Syria and Lebanon.

TEHRAN (FNA)- US officials must end the practice of pointing to Iranian interference every time the Washington strategy for Iraq falters, Iranian officials said Tuesday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran said its engineers trained in Russia are ready to begin work at the country’s first nuclear power plant.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran Tuesday shortened the length of its mandatory military service by up to two months.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran plans to gradually cut from the next Iranian year the amount of heavily-subsidized gasoline motorists can buy and completely eliminate subsidies by 2011, an Iranian official said in comments published on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran plans to build a Persian Pipeline for shipping its natural gas to Europe that would be independent of the EU-backed Nabucco project, a senior Iranian official said on Monday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian officials embarked on an intense lobbying campaign to gather enough support to gain a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The financial crisis is the result of “mistakes” by the United States and shows the limits of Washington’s power to influence world events, Iran’s parliament speaker said Tuesday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Tehran is ready to resume talks with Washington on security problems in Iraq, a spokesman for the Iranian embassy in Baghdad said Tuesday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- A top adviser to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Iran would hold talks with the United States only if its forces leave the Middle East and Washington ends its support for Israel.