The United States lacks the needed potentials and capabilities to take more military actions and engineer the international system, a strategy expert said here on Monday, adding that the US republicans are casting skin.

Iran on Sunday termed the international conference on Iraq’s security held in Baghdad the previous day as “serious and constructive” and said it had prepared the ground for future talks at minister level.

At least nine policemen have been killed by a bomb in the western Afghan province of Farah, officials say. They say the roadside bomb exploded as the police were travelling to the district of Bakwa. The dead included a local district police chief who had only recently been appointed to …

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iraq’s Vice-President Tariq al-Hashimi met with his Iranian counterpart Parviz Davoudi here in Tehran on Sunday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Visiting Kyrgyz parliament speaker met with his Iranian counterpart here in Tehran on Sunday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini said that Baghdad Security Talks reiterate the necessity for the coalition forces to change their approach in Iraq and transfer responsibilities to the Iraqi government and people.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iraq’s Vice-President Tariq al-Hashimi, heading a delegation, arrived in Tehran Sunday morning.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The Iranian and American delegations attending Baghdad security talks have not attended any direct and face-to-face meeting, Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini said.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The British Council on Friday apologized formally to the Iranians over the faulty use of the term Arabian Gulf instead of the universally recognized Persian Gulf.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Deputy Head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization (IAEO) Mohammad Sa’eedi said there resides no technical or legal impediment to the delivery of nuclear fuel to his country’s first nuclear power plant in Bushehr.