TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here on Monday that Tehran has forwarded letters of similar contents to the 14 permanent and non-permanent UN Security Council member states to protest at a recent resolution passed by the UNSC against its nuclear activities.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Mualem strongly rejected the alleged secret talks between Damascus and Tel Aviv, stressing that his country will never attend behind-the-scene negotiations with any other state.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Following their second round of talks, Iranian and Belarusian defense ministers here on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation in the field of defense.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Ground forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) began missile war games in Garmsar region, 100 kilometers east of Tehran on Sunday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in a meeting with Syrian Minister of Telecommunications and Technology Amir Nasir Salim here on Monday stressed that the policies of the hegemonic system for the Middle-East region have all been wrong and ended up in failure.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with the visiting Belarusian Defense Minister, Leonid Maltsev, here on Monday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Law Enforcement agents arrested 10 foreign nationals, including one Iraqi, 4 Afghans and 5 Bangladeshis, for illegal entry into the Islamic Republic of Iran on Monday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Islamists’ leader in the Republic of Azerbaijan said that the US and Israel are endeavoring to sow seeds of discord between the Muslim Shiites and Sunnites in that country.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with the visiting Qatari Foreign Minister, Hamad bin Jasim bin Jabir al-Thani, here on Sunday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The leader of the Iraqi Kurdistan Masoud Barrezani on Sunday promised Islamic Republic’s Ambassador to Iraq Hassan Kazemi Qomi not to spare any efforts in releasing the Iranian diplomats kidnapped by the US troops in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil.