TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s Foreign Ministry summoned the Iraqi and Swiss envoys to Tehran over the detention of five Iranian staffers at a diplomatic mission in northern Iraq.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- China warned the United States not to meddle in its trade relations with Iran after Washington expressed concern about a planned investment by a Chinese oil company in an Iranian gas field.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- US President Bush’s warnings to Iran and Syria and the arrest of six Iranians in Iraq by US troops raised eyebrows on Capitol Hill, where senators warned Bush against widening the nearly four-year-old war.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The Islamic Republic will hold talks with China next month to finalize a 16-billion-dollar gas agreement despite America warning that the Chinese partner could become subject to sanctions, an official said Thursday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran and Syria on Thursday denounced President Bush’s new Iraq strategy that blames them for fueling violence in the war-torn country, and they said the plan to send more US troops would only increase bloodshed.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Unfortunately some of the Islamic heads of state and clerics are misleading the people instead of leading them, Tehran’s interim Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati said here today.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini here on Thursday condemned the new strategy of the US President George W. Bush for Iraq, describing it as a further effort by the US to continue occupation of that country.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- We do not allow Americans to impair our relations with Iraq, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini stressed here on Thursday after US troops invaded Iran’s consulate general in the Iraqi northern city of Erbil.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Democrats and some moderate Republicans on Thursday hammered President George W. Bush’s plan to send more US troops to Iraq, leaving the White House increasingly isolated in its decision to deepen American involvement in the unpopular war.

CAIRO (Reuters) — US President George W. Bush’s plan to send 21,500 more troops will fail to bring peace to Iraq and could aggravate a conflict in which tens of thousands of people have already died, Arab analysts said on Thursday.