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TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki who is currently in Ethiopia to participate in the 8th African Union (AU) summit met with the prime minister, parliament speaker and foreign minister of that country.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian and Tajik Education and Training ministers signed a 19-article Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on educational cooperation.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Envoys of the Non-Aligned Movement and Group 77 are due to attend talks with Iranian officials during a two day visit to the Islamic Republic starting on Saturday, residing representative of the Islamic Republic at the International Atomic Energy Agency said.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Envoys of the Non-Aligned Movement Troika and the Group 77 are scheduled to pay a visit to Isfahan’s UCF plant next Saturday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini here on Wednesday strongly condemned the terrorist attacks on a number of innocent civilians in Iraq and Pakistan, which killed and wounded many people in the said two countries.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- US ally Saudi Arabia and Iran are working together to try to calm the crises in Iraq and Lebanon, the Saudi foreign minister said yesterday, despite Washington’s efforts to isolate Tehran and stem its power in the Middle East.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Camp Ashraf which is occupied by the Iraq-based Iranian opposition group the Mujahedine Khalq Organization (MKO) is sited more than 260km north of Baghdad.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s ambassador to Baghdad, Hassan Kazemi Qomi, said last Sunday that Iran intended to offer the Iraqi government equipment, training and advisers to help the country secure itself.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Former US presidential nominee John Kerry said all the wrong decisions made by the US stem from her lack of knowledge about the Shiite Muslims and their Imams Ali and Hussein (PBUT), former Iranian President Seyed Mohammad Khatami quoted him as saying.