TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Larijani said that the United States and Britain are seeking to forge an imaginary enemy in order to justify their presence in the region.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki stressed that Tehran views the Iraqi government as responsible for the immediate release of the Iranian diplomats kidnapped during an earlier raid by the US troops in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini here on Wednesday strongly condemned the terrorist blasts in front of a university in Sadr town in Baghdad, and said that occupiers’ passive interaction with terrorist groups has increased Iraq’s instability.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Belarusian Defense Minister Lieutenant General Leonid Maltsev is due to visit Iran at the head of a high ranking delegation next week.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A senior Iranian nuclear official stressed that his country is continuing its nuclear activities based on pre-specified schedules and that the UN Security Council resolutions would leave no impact on Tehran.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Cabinet ministers approved of Iran’s membership in the Asian Development Bank.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad described his tour of the three Latin nations which took him to Venezuela, Nicaragua and Ecuador as successful.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Singapore’s parliament speaker here on Tuesday emphasized the right of all the world countries, including the Islamic Republic of Iran, to use nuclear energy for peaceful intentions.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran and Tunisia expanded cooperation in economic areas after the two countries’ commerce ministers signed an agreement for enhancing mutual trade cooperation on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (Fars news Agency)- Iran’s Minister of cooperation Mohammad Abbasi and Ghana’s Food and Agriculture Minister Ernest Debrah discussed development of relations and boosting of cooperation between the two countries.