Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan is scheduled to arrive here in Tehran Saturday afternoon.

Iran believes the shares of rich nations which enjoy extra benefit from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank must be reduced.

China said on Friday the new sanctions imposed by the United States against Iran can only make the Iranian nuclear issue complicated.

 дом еще раз предупредил Россию о поставках Ирану вооружений

                                                                       По словам президента Сергея Багапша, грузинские войска и боевая техника активно передислоцируются в верхнюю часть Кодори  

KABUL, Afghanistan – A suicide bomber detonated his explosives at the entrance to a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing three Afghan soldiers and one Afghan civilian, a U.S. official said.

A counter-terrorism expert says there is only anecdotal evidence backing newspaper reports claiming the Taliban is specifically targeting Australian soldiers in Afghanistan.

Tehran’s provisional Friday Prayers leader Ali Jannati dismissed as biased certain analyses presented about the resignation of Iran’s former nuclear negotiator, stressing that Ali Larijani’s replacement with Saeed Jalili would not be followed by a shift in Tehran’s nuclear policy.

Iran’s first Vice-President Parviz Davoudi said his country’s relations with Syria are at the highest levels possible, adding that Tehran has not set a limit on the expansion of its relations with Damascus.

Trade between Iran and Thailand grew to $409.990 mln in the first half of this year, up 74.76 per cent over the comparable 2006 figure of $234.60 mln, the Iranian ambassador to Thailand said on Friday.