Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel expressed surprise at the US Congress resolution for the disintegration of Iraq, underlining that the approval revealed Washington’s animosity towards the world of Islam.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad voiced pleasure with the achievements of his daylong tour of Armenia, saying that he and Kocharian have held desirable agreements in different grounds.

Representative of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement to Tehran dismissed the Mideast peace conference in the US as a failed effort, and said he expected that a new wave of Intifada would arise in the occupied territories following the US summit.

Iran’s Economic Minister Davoud Danesh Jafari said great powers have failed in their efforts to undermine Iran’s financial system.

Iran’s new top nuclear negotiator will hold his first meeting with the EU’s foreign policy chief over Tehran’s nuclear program today in Rome.

After winning an oil and gas tender in Qatar recently, Indonesian state oil and gas company PT Pertamina is now setting its sights on an exploration right in Iran.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday praised growing economic and political cooperation with Armenia, shoring up closer ties between Tehran and Yerevan.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in a letter to his French counterpart Bernard Kouchner stressed that West’s threats and UN Security Council sanctions cannot deter the Iranian nation and government from continuing nuclear progress.

Two Iranian students have designed and manufactured a drone which could be used both for reconnaissance operations and for launching limited attacks on enemy targets.

Iranian deputy foreign minister underlined the need for the rapid annihilation of chemical weapons in every possible way.