Gunmen killed the head of a Baghdad psychiatric hospital, police said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of assassinations that has caused many of Iraq’s top medical practitioners to flee the country.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday hailed the latest US intelligence report on the Iranian nuclear program as a positive step and called for more such moves from Washington.

TEHRAN (Fars New Agency)- Commander of the Iranian army’s ground force General Dadras said that the country’s military forces monitor every single move in the region very closely.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pour-Dastan here Tuesday was assigned as the lieutenant commander of the Iranian army’s ground force.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned Jordan’s ambassador to Tehran to voice Iran’s strong protest at a series of biased statements recently made by the country’s officials in support of anti-Iran terrorist groups.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad here Tuesday communicated a law with the justice ministry requiring implementation of an agreement between Iran and Armenia on the extradition of criminals.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel is slated to visit Egypt in February, rapporteur of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said here on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) continued talks in Tehran on Tuesday to resolve differences remaining between the two sides about Iran’s nuclear programs.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A senior Iranian foreign ministry official voiced strong protest against Germany for imprisoning an Iranian national for 15 years.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Egypt’s deputy foreign minister is scheduled to arrive here in Tehran Tuesday night.