Turkish police foiled a bomb attack in Ankara on Tuesday, the sixth anniversary of 9/11 attacks on the United States, averting what officials said would have been a disaster for the capital.

THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT came under increasing pressure Tuesday to respond harshly to rocket fire from the Gaza Strip after an overnight barrage wounded dozens of soldiers as they slept in their tents at an Israeli army base.

Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi took the United States, Britain and Israel responsible for repeated terrorist operations in eastern Iran during the last few months.

Iranian government spokesman here Tuesday said his county participated in talks with the US in a bid to support the Iraqi government, and stressed that Tehran would continue aids and assistance with the Iraqi government until the achievement of final results.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki is due to leave Tehran for Moscow Tuesday night.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad praised the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) for its relentless efforts to fight terrorist groups which, he said, are supported by certain western countries.

Syria complained to the United Nations about “aggression and violation of sovereignty” after Israeli warplanes reportedly conducted an airstrike in the country’s north, the country’s ambassador to the U.N. said Tuesday.

TEHRAN – The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps is an example of Iran’s power and glory, Majlis Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel said here on Monday.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad strongly condemned recent terrorist attacks in Algeria on Tuesday, saying that murdering defenseless people is “unacceptable.”

Caretaker of Iran’s Ministry of Industries and Mines Ali Akbar Mehrabian left Tehran for Damascus on Tuesday to attend talks with Syrian officials and visit Iran’s industrial projects in that country.