The head of the U.N. nuclear agency says Iran’s refusal to suspend uranium enrichment is “regrettable,” but said its willingness to cooperate with U.N. investigators is a step in the right direction. From VOA’s New York Bureau, Mona Ghuneim reports on the agency’s efforts to work on a diplomatic solution …

“America will always do the right thing, but only after exhausting all other options,” Winston Churchill once famously remarked when asked about US foreign policy. Little has changed since Churchill expressed his frustration 60 years ago. Today, all of Turkey is angrily waiting for Washington to do the right thing.

The number of Turkish troops inside Irq has reached 2.000. The Turkish soldiers are based in Batufa-Begova-Kanimasi triangle, in Northern Iraq. The Turkish security forces make operations in 8-20 km inside of the northern Iraq against the PKK terrorists.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The United Nations on Monday said 34 aid workers have been killed in Afghanistan this year and called on Taliban fighters and criminal gangs to stop attacking humanitarian convoys so food can reach millions of needy Afghans before winter. Tom Koenigs, the head of the U.N. …

An Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) commander underlined preparedness of his troops to fight enemy forces in the Persian Gulf, saying that Iran can stun enemies due to its geographical advantages in the strait of Hormoz.

Changes and transformations in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps are aimed at materializing its strategic goals and implementing its policies, chief of IRGC’s joint staff said.

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Mualem in a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki on Monday said that Damascus and Tehran share similar views about the need for anti-terrorism efforts in northern Iraq.

Iran’s Accredited ambassador to Yangon Mohsen Pak Ayeen said that the US and certain European countries have mobilized dependent and opportunist media to foment unrests and intensify crisis in Myanmar in a bid to implement a regime change plan in that country.

Iran announced that it is seeking to bolster cooperation with the republic of Azerbaijan in cultural and cinematic grounds.

A prominent Iranian MP said here on Monday that the Unite States’ one-sided sanctions against the Islamic Republic reveal that Washington has come to a state of paralysis.