TEHRAN (FNA)- If Israel does something stupid, it will face a shocking response the likes of which it has never encountered before, an Iranian diplomat in Syria said.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian government is planning to sell off up to a quarter of the state owned telecoms operator, Telecommunications Company of Iran (TCI).

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iraqi president Jalal Al Talabani is in the United States to receive medical treatment, but he will make time during his journey to follow up secret talks with American officials on the Iranian nuclear issue, sources from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, headed by Al Talabani, said.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The leader of a terrorist group responsible for a string of attacks in southeastern Iran said in an interview broadcast on Thursday that he was ready to enter talks with the Tehran government.

TEHRAN (FNA)- India this afternoon withdrew its permission for a North Korean plane to overfly Indian airspace on its way to Iran, just before it could take off from Mandalay in Myanmar where it had made a stopover.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran sign a grant agreement with the Lebanese Council for Development and Reconstruction to help the Council repair the road between Naqoura and Marjayoun in southern Lebanon.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The second man of United Nations nuclear watchdog agency began talks with Iranian officials in Tehran on Thursday over the country’s nuclear program.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with a group of journalists and media people here in Tehran Thursday night to honor Journalists’ Day (August 7).

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev vowed on Friday to defend “compatriots” in Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetia and promised to punish those responsible for their deaths.

BEIJING (Reuters) – U.S. President George W. Bush and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin discussed the fighting in Georgia, the former Soviet republic that is pushing to join NATO, White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said on Friday.